2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election

← 2015 2 May 2019 (2019-05-02) 2023 →
All 56 seats to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council 29 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Conservative Independent Last election 35 seats, 40.1% 10 seats, 13.9% Seats won 25 17 Seat change 10 7 Popular vote 17,132 13,448 Percentage 36.3% 28.5% Swing 3.8% 14.6%   Third party Fourth party   Party Labour Liberal Democrats Last election 13 seats, 24.6% 2 seats, 4.7% Seats won 13 1 Seat change 6 1 Popular vote 12,282 1,969 Percentage 26.0% 4.2% Swing 1.4% 0.5%
Winner of each seat at the 2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election No overall control

The 2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	42	25	3	13	10	44.6	36.3	17,132	–3.8
	Independent	32	17	9	2	7	30.4	28.5	13,448	+14.6
	Labour	34	13	9	2	6	23.2	26.0	12,282	+1.4
	Liberal Democrats	8	1	0	1	1	1.8	4.2	1,969	–0.5
	Green	10	0	0	0		0.0	5.1	2,416	+1.9
	UKIP	0	0	0	2	2	0.0	0.0	0	–3.3

• 6 May 2021: Conservative gain (Stephen Ellis) in Cheadle North East following death of independent Ian Whitehouse.
• 6 May 2021: Conservative gain (Peter Jackson) in Cheadle South East following resignation of independent Peter Elkin.
• 5 May 2022: Conservative gain (Zenobia Routledge) in Cheadle South East following death of independent Richard Alcock.

A double by-election after the deaths of incumbent Conservative (Ian Lawson) and independent (Hilda Sheldon) councillors.

In May 2022, Norma Hawkins, Brian Johnson and Phil Routledge, all elected as independents, joined the Conservatives. At the same time, Michael Bowen, elected as a Conservative, left the party to sit as an independent. These changes gave the council an overall Conservative majority, having previously been under no overall control.^[2]