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2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election

The 2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands alongside other local elections on the same day. 17 of the 51 seats were up for election.

The 2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands alongside other local elections on the same day. 17 of the 51 seats were up for election.

Since its creation in 1974, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has always had the Conservatives as the largest party, with some periods of no overall control. Labour came the closest to overtaking them in 1996, when they won 16 seats to the Conservatives' 17. In the 2023 election, the Conservatives gained two seats on a vote share of 38.4% (-7.5), the Green Party lost 1 seat with 29.8% of the vote (+4.2), the Liberal Democrats gained 1 seat on 16.1% (+2.6), and Labour lost their sole remaining seat on 14.9% (+2.9).

The seats up for election in 2024 were last elected in 2021 (the election was delayed by 1 year due to COVID-19, meaning these councillors served a 3-year term). In that election, the Conservatives gained 3 seats with 53.8% of the vote, the Green Party gained 1 with 20.5%, the Liberal Democrats lost 3 with 12.2%, and Labour lost 1 with 12.9%.

Before 2024 election	After 2024 election
Conservative	29	Conservative	29	Conservative	30
Green	13	Green	12	Green	10
Liberal Democrats	6	Liberal Democrats	6	Liberal Democrats	8
Independent	2	Independent	4	Independent	2
Labour	0	Labour	0	Labour	1

Changes 2023–2024:

Stephen Rymer leaves Green Party to sit as an independent

Councillor	Ward	First elected	Party	Date announced
Jim Ryan	Bickenhill Ward	1984		Conservative	26 March 2024

The council remained under Conservative majority control.

2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
Conservative	11	1	64.7	19	30	58.8	28,241	50.5	+12.1
Green	3	2	17.6	7	10	19.6	9,014	16.1	–13.7
Liberal Democrats	2	2	11.8	6	8	15.7	7,949	14.2	–1.9
Independent	0	2	0.0	2	2	3.9	161	0.3	–0.3
Labour	1	1	5.9	0	1	2.0	10,477	18.7	+3.8
TUSC	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	46	0.1	±0.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Conservative	1,720	60.9	6.4
	Labour	654	23.2	6.6
	Green	301	10.7	0.5
	Liberal Democrats	149	5.3	0.3
1,066	37.7	13.0
2,824
	Conservative hold	6.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,459	60.2	7.2
	Labour	915	22.4	9.3
	Green	409	10.0	4.3
	Liberal Democrats	302	7.4	N/A
1,544	37.8	15.5
4,085
	Conservative hold	8.3

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,742	60.6	10.0
	Labour	658	22.9	8.8
	Green	372	12.9	22.4
	Liberal Democrats	102	3.5	N/A
1,084	37.7	22.4
2,874
	Conservative hold	0.6

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	901	58.2	2.0
	Labour	348	22.5	4.8
	Conservative	253	16.3	4.2
	Liberal Democrats	47	3.0	N/A
553	35.7	4.0
1,549
	Green hold	3.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,518	63.8	5.8
	Green	619	15.7	6.0
	Labour	596	15.1	4.0
	Liberal Democrats	214	5.4	1.6
1,899	48.1	10.3
3,947
	Conservative hold	5.9

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,231	39.4	3.9
	Conservative	1,176	37.6	6.0
	Labour	473	15.1	2.1
	Green	140	4.5	N/A
	Independent	107	3.4	N/A
55	1.8	N/A
3,127
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative	1.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	667	40.6	18.0
	Conservative	652	39.7	4.6
	Green	271	16.5	25.8
	Liberal Democrats	51	3.1	N/A
15	0.9	N/A
1,641
	Labour gain from Green	21.9

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,483	67.2	6.3
	Labour	579	15.7	4.8
	Green	374	10.1	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	259	7.0	0.1
1,904	51.5	11.1
3,695
	Conservative hold	5.6

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,342	39.8	4.4
	Liberal Democrats	1,201	36.1	4.7
	Labour	565	17.0	1.9
	Green	189	5.7	N/A
	TUSC	46	1.4	N/A
141	3.7	0.3
3,324
	Conservative hold	0.2

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,301	61.6	4.2
	Labour	690	18.5	7.7
	Green	384	10.3	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	362	9.7	N/A
1,611	43.1	9.5
3,737
	Conservative hold	6.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,858	44.2	4.1
	Conservative	1641	39.1	8.8
	Labour	461	11.0	1.1
	Green	242	5.8	N/A
217	5.2	N/A
4,202
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative	6.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,027	56.3	9.1
	Labour	947	26.3	18.0
	Green	390	10.8	13.7
	Liberal Democrats	234	6.5	N/A
1,080	30.0	27.2
3,598
	Conservative hold	4.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	1,914	50.3	0.8
	Conservative	1,277	33.5	5.8
	Labour	485	12.7	4.8
	Liberal Democrats	131	3.4	N/A
637	16.7	4.3
3,807
	Green hold	2.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,449	41.9	7.0
	Green	1,069	30.9	20.2
	Labour	615	17.8	3.8
	Liberal Democrats	166	4.8	N/A
	Independent	161	4.7	N/A
380	11.0	N/A
3,460
	Conservative gain from Green	13.6

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,183	55.7	11.5
	Labour	779	19.9	1.3
	Liberal Democrats	575	14.7	0.5
	Green	384	9.8	N/A
1,404	35.8	12.8
3,921
	Conservative hold	6.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	939	58.7	1.0
	Labour	400	25.0	9.0
	Conservative	230	14.4	9.9
	Liberal Democrats	28	1.8	N/A
539	33.7	1.7
1,599
	Green hold	5.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	2,807	60.9	8.3
	Liberal Democrats	819	17.8	6.9
	Labour	645	14.0	3.8
	Green	336	7.3	2.3
1,988	43.2	14.1
4,607
	Conservative hold	7.6

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