St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council elections

St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council elections are held every four years. St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, which styles itself St Helens Borough Council, is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of St Helens in Merseyside, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2022, 48 councillors have been elected from 18 wards. Prior to the 2022 boundary changes, elections were held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time.^[1]

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after each council election, click on the year for full details of each election.

Year								Notes
Year	Labour	Liberal Democrats‡	Conservative	Green Party	Independent	Others		Notes
1973	36	0	8	0	1	0
1975	30	1	13	0	1	0
1976	26	1	17	0	1	0
1978	24	1	20	0	0	0
1979	27	0	18	0	0	0
1980	43	0	11	0	0	0		New ward boundaries increased seats from 45 to 54.^[2]
1982	41	2	11	0	0	0
1983	41	2	11	0	0	0
1984	41	2	11	0	0	0
1986	45	0	9	0	0	0
1987	44	2	8	0	0	0
1988^[3]	40	6	8	0	0	0
1990^[4]	38	10	6	0	0	0
1991^[5]	34	15	5	0	0	0
1992^[6]	33	15	6	0	0	0
1994^[7]	33	14	5	0	0	2
1995^[8]	40	10	3	0	0	1	Liberal (1989)
1996^[9]	44	9	1	0	0	0
1998^[10]	42	10	2	0	0	0
1999^[11]	37	14	3	0	0	0
2000^[12]	35	15	4	0	0	0
2002^[13]	33	15	5	0	0	1	Socialist Labour
2003^[14]	33	15	6	0	0	0
2004^[15]	24	18	6	0	0	0		New ward boundaries reduced seats from 54 to 48.^[16]
2006^[17]	23	19	6	0	0	0
2007^[18]	21	20	6	0	1	0
2008^[19]	23	19	6	0	0	0
2010^[20]	28	15	5	0	0	0
2011^[21]	35	9	4	0	0	0
2012^[22]	40	5	3	0	0	0
2014^[23]	42	3	3	0	0	0
2015	42	3	3	0	0	0
2016	42	3	3	0	0	0
2018^[24]	41	3	3	0	1	0
2019^[24]	37	4	3	2	2	0
2021	35	4	3	3	3	0
2022	29	4	2	6	7	0		New ward boundaries and change to elections every four years.^[1]

‡Includes Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party pre-1988.

Borough result maps

2002 results map
2004 results map
2006 results map
2008 results map
2010 results map
2011 results map
2012 results map
2014 results map
2015 results map
2016 results map
2018 results map
2019 results map
2021 results map
2022 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;^[25] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date
Marshalls Cross by-election	21 January 1999	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Newton West by-election	21 January 1999	Labour	Liberal Democrats
Thatto Heath by-election	21 January 1999	Labour	Labour
Marshalls Cross by-election	19 September 2002	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Rainford by-election	23 November 2006	Conservative	Conservative
Parr by-election	12 March 2009	Labour	Labour
Rainhill by-election	12 March 2009	Labour	Labour
Moss Bank by-election	16 July 2009	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Billinge and Seneley Green by-election	14 October 2010	Labour	Labour
Haydock by-election	2 December 2010	Labour	Labour
Windle by-election	2 May 2013	Labour	Labour
Billinge and Seneley Green by-election	28 November 2013	Labour	Labour
Thatto Heath Green by-election	21 January 2016	Labour	Labour
Moss Bank by-election	20 October 2022	Labour	Labour

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