2017 United Kingdom local elections

Party		Councils[20]		Councillors
		Number	Change	Number	Change
	Conservative	28	11	1,899	563
	Labour	9	7	1,152	382
	Independent	6	1	656	13
	Liberal Democrats	0		441	42
	SNP	0	1	431	7
	Plaid Cymru	1	1	208	38
	Green	0		21	1
	Scottish Green	0		19	5
	RA	0		11	2
	Llais Gwynedd	0		6	7
	Mebyon Kernow	0		4
	Health Concern	0		2	1
	UKIP	0		1	145
	Liberal	0		0	3
	Others	0		0
	No overall control	44	4	n/a	n/a
	Total			4,851

As elections were not held throughout the country, the BBC calculated a Projected National Vote Share (PNV), which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be "if the results were repeated at a general election". The BBC's preliminary Projected National Vote Share was 38% for the Conservatives, 27% for Labour, 18% for the Liberal Democrats and 5% for UKIP, with others on around 12%.[21]

This is the highest vote share for the Conservatives in local elections since 2008, when they faced Labour a decade into government and suffering from the financial crisis. The Liberal Democrats have performed better than at any election since 2010, whilst Labour has not performed so badly since 2010.

UKIP lost 145 of their 146 seats. Prominent former UKIP members talked of the party being finished and that it should disband.[22][23][24]

Party		Votes[25]	Vote %	+/-	Councils[26]	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Conservative	3,036,709	46.5%	12.2%	27	10	1,439	319
	Labour	1,299,846	19.9%	1.6%	2	1	418	142
	Liberal Democrats	1,164,779	17.8%	4.2%	0		312	28
	UKIP	302,368	4.6%	15.6%	0		1	143
	Green	284,735	4.4%	0.8%	0		20
	Others	438,985	6.7%	0.2%	0		199	6
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	5	9	n/a	n/a
	Total	6,545,055	100		34		2,389

Note that unlike in Scotland and Wales, where all local authorities were up for election, the England results are for only 34 councils out of 353, and should not be taken as reflective of the whole of England.

Party		Votes[27]	%	+/-	Councils	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Labour	294,989	30.4%	4.5%	7	3	468	112
	Independent	218,817	22.5%	1.3%	3	1	309	2
	Conservative	182,520	18.8%	6.3%	1	1	184	79
	Plaid Cymru	160,519	16.5%	0.5%	1	1	208	38
	Liberal Democrats	66,022	6.8%	1.2%	0		63	10
	Green	12,441	1.3%	0.2%	0		1	1
	UKIP	11,006	1.1%	0.3%	0		0	2
	Other	24,594	2.5%	0.3%	0		21	7
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	10	1	n/a	n/a
	Total	970,908	100		22		1,254

For comparative purposes, the table above shows changes since 2012 including Anglesey's council, which was last elected in 2013.

Following boundary changes:

Summary of the 4 May 2017 Scottish council election results[28][29]

Party		First-preference votes			Councils	+/-	2012 seats		2017 seats		Seat change
							Seats won	Notional	Seats won	Seat %	vs Notional
	Scottish National Party	610,454	32.3%	0.0	0	1	425	438	431	35.1%	7
	Conservative	478,073	25.3%	12.0%	0		115	112	276	22.5%	164
	Labour	380,957	20.2%	11.4%	0	3	394	395	262	21.4%	133
	Independents	196,438	10.4%	1.4%	3		196	198	168	14.1%	30
	Liberal Democrats	130,243	6.9%	0.3%	0		71	70	67	5.5%	3
	Green	77,682	4.1%	1.8%	0		14	14	19	1.6%	5
	Orkney Manifesto Group	894	0.0%		0				2	0.1%	New
	West Dunbartonshire Community	2,413	0.1%		0				1	0.1%	New
	The Rubbish Party	784	0.0%		0				1	0.1%	New
	UKIP	2,920	0.2%	0.1%	0					0.0%
	Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire	2,823	0.2%		0					0.0%
	TUSC	1,403	0.1%		0					0.0%
	A Better Britain – Unionist Party	1,196	0.1%		0					0.0%
	Scottish Socialist	928	0.0%	0.3%	0		1		0	0.0%	1
	Solidarity	883	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Libertarian	776	0.0%		0					0.0%
	RISE	186	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Scottish Independent Network	145	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Scottish Unionist	129	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Social Democratic	112	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Scottish Christian	104	0.0%		0					0.0%
	Socialist Labour	76	0.0%		0					0.0%
	National Front	39	0.0%		0					0.0%
	No Overall Control	—	—	—	29	4	—	—	—	—	—
Total		1,889,658	100.0	±0.0	32		1,223	1,227	1,227	100.00

The table has been arranged according to popular vote, not the number of seats won.

There were boundary changes in many of these councils, with an increase in council seats across the country from 1,223 to 1,227, making direct comparisons with the 2012 results problematic. Notional seats and seat change are based on a notional 2012 result calculated by the BBC.[30][31]

All 27 county councils for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance had all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.

These were the last elections to Dorset and Northamptonshire county councils.

‡ New electoral division boundaries [39]

† The Conservatives lost control in 2013, and were replaced by a Labour/UKIP/Lib Dem coalition with Independent/Green support. The Conservatives regained the council leadership in May 2016 after the Green Party abstained in the annual Council leadership election, and by-elections and defections later brought the Conservative total to 42 seats, giving them exactly 50% of the seats.[40]

Seven single-tier unitary authorities held elections, with all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions or wards.

One metropolitan borough, the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, had all of its seats up for election, after moving to whole council elections in 2015.[45] This was a first-past-the-post election in a mixture of two-member and three-member wards.

Six elections were held for directly elected regional mayors. These newly established positions lead combined authorities set up by groups of local councils, as part of devolution deals giving the combined authorities additional powers and funding.

Other planned mayoralties have been postponed or cancelled.[46] The election of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority mayor was postponed in January 2017[47] and, following legal action, did not occur until the 2018 local elections.[48] The North East Combined Authority deal was scrapped as several councils in the region voted down the proposal,[49] however the smaller North of Tyne combined authority was approved by the councils and by parliament for the 2019 local elections.[50] The other devolution deals that were scrapped were for the Norfolk and Suffolk,[51] Greater Lincolnshire[52] and the Solent.[53]

There were concerns at the low turnout recorded.[54][7]

Two elections for directly elected local district mayors will be held. These Mayors act as council leaders in their local authorities.