St Helens local elections
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One third of St Helens
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It is named after its largest town St Helens, and covers an area which includes the settlements of Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown, Haydock, Rainhill, Eccleston, Clock Face, Billinge and...

 Metropolitan Borough
Metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts, however all of them have been granted or regranted...

 Council in Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 is elected each year, followed by one year without election.

Political control

Since 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:
Party in control Years
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 
1973 - 2004
No overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...

 
2004 - 2010
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 
2010 - present

Council elections

  • St Helens Council election, 1998
  • St Helens Council election, 1999
  • St Helens Council election, 2000
  • St Helens Council election, 2002
  • St Helens Council election, 2003
  • St Helens Council election, 2004 (whole council elected after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by 6)
  • St Helens Council election, 2006
  • St Helens Council election, 2007
    St Helens Council election, 2007
    Elections to St Helens Council were held on 3rd May, 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.After the election, the composition of the council was*Labour 21*Liberal Democrat 21*Conservative 6...

  • St Helens Council election, 2008
    St Helens Council election, 2008
    Elections to St Helens Council were held on 1 May 2008. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.After the election, the composition of the council was*Labour 23*Liberal Democrat 19*Conservative 6...

  • St Helens Council election, 2010

By-election results

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