Elections

Coventry local elections

One third of Coventry Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, England is elected each year, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, 54 councillors have been elected from 18 wards.-Political control:...

 for Coventry City Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the wards was up for election. The vote took place alongside the United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011.

During the election count, a box of ballot papers for Cheylesmore ward was misplaced. Before they were discovered, Councillor Kevin Foster was about to concede that he had lost his seat, although after the additional votes were counted he had retained it.

Election result

This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	Staying councillors	Seats up for election	Election result	New council
	Labour	30	20	10	15	35
	Conservatives	22	14	8	3	17
	Socialist Alternative	1	1	0	0	1
	Liberal Democrats	1	1	0	0	1
	British National Party	0	0	0	0	0
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0
Total		54	36	18	18	54

Ward results

Note: the Green Party candidate stood in this ward as an independent at the last election, so it could be argued that he had a swing of -4.2%


Note: The Conservative Party candidate for Henley, Steven Henry Charles Keough, withdrew his nomination.