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Elections to City of York Council took place on 4 May 2023, as part of the United Kingdom local elections.[1][2][3] They were held on the same day as other local elections in England. The incumbent leader of the council and leader of the Liberal Democrats, Keith Aspden did not stand for re-election, with it being announced ahead of the elections that Nigel Ayre would be the Liberal Democrats' new leader.[4]
At the election Labour took a majority of the seats on the council. While the Liberal Democrats had a net loss of only two seats, they were rendered unable to continue in power after their coalition partners, the Green Party, lost all their seats on the council. The Conservative Party, who had led the council in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats between 2015 and 2019, made only a minor recovery with a net gain of one seat. The Labour Party took seven seats, and was able to form an administration with a majority of one. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 25 May 2023 the Labour leader, Claire Douglas, was appointed the new leader of the council.[5]
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Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
Labour | 47 | 24 | 7 | 0 | ![]() |
51.1 | 42.4 | 55,995 | +14.0 | ||||||
Liberal Democrats | 47 | 19 | 1 | 3 | ![]() |
40.4 | 31.1 | 41,080 | –3.4 | ||||||
Conservative | 45 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
6.4 | 13.8 | 18,191 | –1.7 | ||||||
Independent | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ![]() |
2.1 | 1.4 | 1,898 | –2.3 | ||||||
Green | 47 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ![]() |
0.0 | 11.1 | 14,655 | –5.9 | ||||||
Yorkshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.1 | 154 | N/A | ||||||
TUSC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.1 | 141 | N/A |
Sitting councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Katie Lomas * | 1,506 | 69.9 | +24.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Jason Rose | 1,364 | 63.3 | +21.5 | |
Conservative | Nigel Bromley | 373 | 17.3 | -6.8 | |
Conservative | Matthew Greenwood | 343 | 15.9 | -1.7 | |
Green | Luke Richardson | 189 | 8.8 | -4.4 | |
Green | Michael Kearney | 173 | 8.0 | -3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tobie Abel | 141 | 6.5 | -1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Smithson | 112 | 5.2 | -0.6 | |
Turnout | 2,155 | 31.4 | -5.3 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
The parishes of Acaster Malbis and Bishopthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Nicholls | 590 | 34.4 | +13.5 | |
Green | Carole Green | 546 | 31.9 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Gammie | 367 | 21.4 | +15.6 | |
Labour | Steven Spencer | 210 | 12.3 | +3.3 | |
Turnout | 1,713 | 51.6 | ±0.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Danny Myers * | 1,371 | 67.2 | +8.9 | |
Labour | Margaret Wells * | 1,221 | 59.9 | +9.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Maybridge | 298 | 14.6 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Waudby † | 269 | 13.2 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | Charlotte Milligan | 214 | 10.5 | -6.4 | |
Conservative party (UK) | Joe Pattinson | 212 | 10.4 | -5.0 | |
Green | Amanda Brook | 183 | 9.0 | -9.4 | |
Independent | Andrew Dickinson | 117 | 5.7 | New | |
Green | Richard Sharp | 114 | 5.6 | -8.9 | |
Turnout | 2,039 | 30.2 | -3.6 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
The parish of Copmanthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Steward * | 421 | 29.1 | +11.1 | |
Independent | David Carr † | 388 | 26.8 | -19.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Brown | 255 | 17.6 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Ann Moxon | 198 | 13.7 | +6.8 | |
Green | Lars Kramm ‡ | 187 | 12.9 | +1.8 | |
Turnout | 1,449 | 43.6 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fenton * | 2,233 | 61.0 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paula Widdowson † | 2,026 | 55.3 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ashley Mason * | 1,955 | 53.4 | -0.6 | |
Labour | Samuel Kind | 880 | 24.0 | +7.1 | |
Labour | Bob Scrase ‡ | 840 | 22.9 | +6.5 | |
Labour | Kataya McKeever-Willis | 828 | 22.6 | +6.5 | |
Conservative | Clive Hibbert | 479 | 13.1 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | David Stuart | 405 | 11.1 | +0.4 | |
Conservative | Timothy Ashman | 403 | 11.0 | +0.8 | |
Green | Bronwen Gray | 253 | 6.9 | -2.9 | |
Green | Ginevra House | 247 | 6.7 | -0.5 | |
Green | John Gray | 192 | 5.2 | -1.6 | |
Turnout | 3,663 | 40.4 | -5.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Sarah Wilson | 1,704 | 64.0 | +37.4 | |
Labour Co-op | Conrad Whitcroft | 1,447 | 54.3 | +31.6 | |
Green | Andy D'Agorne * | 855 | 32.1 | -30.3 | |
Green | Liam Clegg | 737 | 27.7 | -27.8 | |
Conservative | Judith Morris | 198 | 7.4 | -1.5 | |
Conservative | Peter Reineck | 157 | 5.9 | -0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Katharine Macy | 87 | 3.3 | -2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Connor Fitzgerald | 79 | 3.0 | -2.4 | |
Turnout | 2,664 | 44.3 | +0.3 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Green | |||||
Labour Co-op gain from Green |
The parish of Fulford and part of the parish of Heslington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kate Ravilious | 678 | 47.3 | +29.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Pamela Cullwick | 514 | 35.8 | -32.2 | |
Conservative | Jordan Hennessy | 155 | 10.8 | +3.8 | |
Green | Rachel Davis | 87 | 6.1 | -1.2 | |
Turnout | 1,434 | 44.2 | -4.8 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Rachel Melly * | 1,707 | 58.9 | +19.2 | |
Labour Co-op | Tony Clarke | 1,593 | 55.0 | +17.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Dave Merrett † | 1,501 | 51.8 | +17.1 | |
Green | Denise Craghill ‡ | 901 | 31.1 | -18.2 | |
Green | Martina Weitsch | 716 | 24.7 | -10.8 | |
Green | Henry Stevens | 677 | 23.4 | -8.9 | |
Conservative | David Barratt | 353 | 12.2 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | Matthew Freckelton | 323 | 11.2 | -2.3 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Widdows | 320 | 11.0 | -1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Felix Andrew | 172 | 5.9 | -3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brandon Masih | 134 | 4.6 | -2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Scarlett Wighton | 132 | 4.6 | -1.7 | |
Turnout | 2,896 | 32.5 | -2.8 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Green | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold |
The parishes of Haxby and Wigginton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Edward Pearson * | 2,056 | 56.91 | -5.29 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Hollyer * | 2,023 | 55.99 | -6.51 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Cuthbertson † | 2,013 | 55.72 | -7.98 | |
Conservative | Jessie Secker | 887 | 24.55 | +6.55 | |
Conservative | David Miller | 828 | 22.92 | +6.82 | |
Conservative | James Bailey | 735 | 20.34 | +5.44 | |
Labour | Ian Craven | 562 | 15.55 | +9.45 | |
Labour | Janet Mather | 537 | 14.86 | +9.86 | |
Labour | Anthony Lewis | 500 | 13.84 | +9.04 | |
Green | Ian Lowson | 203 | 5.62 | -0.68 | |
Green | Jessica Dixon | 196 | 5.42 | -0.88 | |
Independent | Neil Wyatt | 177 | 4.90 | -4.5 | |
Green | Liz Scurfield | 121 | 3.35 | -1.05 | |
Turnout | 3,613 | 39.3% | -8% | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Claire Douglas * | 2,149 | 75.59 | +23.49 | |
Labour Co-op | Ben Burton | 1,890 | 66.48 | +22.08 | |
Labour Co-op | Robert Webb * | 1,867 | 65.67 | +23.47 | |
Green | Erin Dyson | 515 | 18.11 | -2.19 | |
Conservative | Susan Vaughan | 428 | 15.05 | -1.95 | |
Conservative | Robert James | 421 | 14.81 | -0.09 | |
Green | Sabine Janssen-Havercroft | 340 | 11.96 | -5.57 | |
Green | Andy Wilson | 286 | 10.06 | -2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Morley † | 252 | 8.86 | -4.24 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Murphy | 252 | 8.86 | -4.84 | |
Liberal Democrats | Samantha Phoenix | 240 | 8.44 | -4.16 | |
Turnout | 2,843 | 31.7% | -1.8% | ||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold |
The parish of Heworth Without
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Nigel Ayre * | 966 | 61.9 | -13.9 | |
Labour | John Moroney | 321 | 20.6 | +12.8 | |
Conservative | Mark Fox | 188 | 12.1 | +2.9 | |
Green | David Gibbon | 85 | 5.4 | -1.7 | |
Turnout | 1,560 | 46.8 | -5.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Kallum Taylor * | 2,471 | 78.27 | +20.27 | |
Labour Co-op | Jenny Kent | 2,319 | 73.46 | +21.56 | |
Labour Co-op | Lucy Steels-Walshaw | 2,236 | 70.83 | +19.33 | |
Green | Pam Hanley | 383 | 12.13 | -5.17 | |
Conservative | Paul Bilton | 375 | 11.88 | -0.12 | |
Conservative | Joanne Fox | 318 | 10.07 | +0.01 | |
Green | Eleanor Glanvill | 306 | 9.69 | -7.61 | |
Conservative | Paul Williams | 288 | 9.12 | -0.58 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ken Cox | 238 | 7.54 | -8.96 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Booth | 216 | 6.84 | -6.46 | |
Green | Nick Cox | 185 | 5.86 | -9.74 | |
Liberal Democrats | Niall McFerran | 136 | 4.31 | -7.19 | |
Turnout | 3,157 | 35.8% | -2.5% | ||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold |
Part of the parish of Heslington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Sophie Kelly | 1,316 | 55.6 | +9.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Anna Baxter | 1,289 | 54.4 | +10.9 | |
Labour Co-op | Michael Pavlovic * | 1,228 | 51.9 | +11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Mortimer † | 565 | 23.9 | +12.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Danielle Mason | 526 | 22.2 | +10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caleb Pell | 497 | 21.0 | +12.7 | |
Green | John Cossham | 367 | 15.5 | -12.3 | |
Green | Nicola Normandale | 336 | 14.2 | -9.1 | |
Green | Candi Spillard | 285 | 12.0 | -5.8 | |
Conservative | Ellis Holden | 189 | 8.0 | -6.6 | |
Conservative | Liping Hu | 161 | 6.8 | -7.5 | |
Conservative | Ivan Zhou | 150 | 6.3 | -7.2 | |
Turnout | 2,368 | 32.1 | +1.4 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Labour Co-op hold |
The parishes of Huntington and New Earswick
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Keith Orrell * | 1,492 | 45.7 | -11.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Carol Runciman † | 1,476 | 45.21 | -11.09 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Cullwick ‡ | 1,473 | 45.11 | -10.89 | |
Labour | Hughie Ferguson | 1,148 | 35.16 | +15.96 | |
Labour | Diane Geoghegan-Breen | 1,115 | 34.15 | +16.15 | |
Labour | Joan Whitehead | 1,096 | 33.57 | +16.77 | |
Conservative | Stuart Rawlings § | 439 | 13.45 | +4.05 | |
Conservative | John Wrightson | 401 | 12.28 | +3.84 | |
Conservative | Thomas Marshall | 368 | 11.27 | +3.27 | |
Green | Charles Everett | 262 | 8.02 | -2.38 | |
Green | Clive Woolley | 219 | 6.71 | -3.7 | |
Yorkshire | James Howard | 154 | 4.72 | New | |
Green | Dan Staples | 152 | 4.66 | -3.74 | |
Turnout | 3,265 | 34.3% | -3.8% | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jonny Crawshaw * | 3,063 | 73.35 | +18.45 | |
Labour | Pete Kilbane † | 2,795 | 66.93 | +23.33 | |
Labour | Jane Burton | 2,746 | 65.76 | +25.96 | |
Green | Daniella Findlay | 874 | 20.93 | -23.67 | |
Green | Andreas Heinemeyer | 826 | 19.78 | -10.12 | |
Green | David Williams | 624 | 14.94 | -9.06 | |
Conservative | Damian Edwards | 457 | 10.94 | +0.54 | |
Conservative | John Brewin | 444 | 10.63 | +0.43 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Bartlett ‡ | 258 | 6.18 | -3.17 | |
Liberal Democrats | Harrison Daubeney | 154 | 3.69 | -4.81 | |
Liberal Democrats | Karl Henderson | 145 | 3.47 | -3.23 | |
TUSC | Ali Mansfield | 141 | 3.38 | New | |
Turnout | 4,176 | 44.9% | -3.1% | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Green |
The parishes of Dunnington, Holtby, Kexby, Murton, and Osbaldwick
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Mark Warters * | 1,138 | 40.4 | -9.5 | |
Conservative | Martin Rowley † | 927 | 32.9 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Eiloart | 739 | 26.2 | +13.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jack Worrall | 578 | 20.5 | +10.4 | |
Labour | Jude Powell | 524 | 18.6 | +6.1 | |
Labour | Max Abdulgani | 467 | 16.6 | +5.0 | |
Green | Ginnie Shaw | 339 | 12.0 | -7.5 | |
Conservative | Harvey Walker | 326 | 11.6 | -8.3 | |
Green | Paul Hutchinson | 153 | 5.4 | -3.4 | |
Turnout | 2,816 | 43.2 | +1.9 | ||
Independent hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
The parishes of Clifton Without and Rawcliffe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Darryl Smalley * | 2,099 | 59.11 | +3.01 | |
Liberal Democrats | Derek Wann * | 1,918 | 54.01 | -0.39 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sam Waudby * | 1,910 | 53.79 | -0.01 | |
Labour | Andy Hagon | 1,087 | 30.61 | +12.21 | |
Labour | Sam Perry | 981 | 27.63 | +10.63 | |
Labour | Tracy White | 884 | 24.89 | +8.69 | |
Conservative | Peter Dew † | 443 | 12.48 | -5.72 | |
Conservative | John Betteridge | 393 | 11.07 | -7.13 | |
Conservative | Graham Whyatt | 359 | 10.11 | -7.89 | |
Green | Andy Dearden | 197 | 5.55 | -1.55 | |
Green | Jill Armstrong | 172 | 4.84 | -2.69 | |
Green | Tom Franklin | 130 | 3.66 | -1.64 | |
Independent | Richard Coffey | 78 | 2.2 | New | |
Turnout | 3,551 | 36.9% | -4.9% | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
The parishes of Askham Bryan, Askham Richard, Hessay, Nether Poppleton, Rufforth with Knapton, Skelton, and Upper Poppleton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Anne Hook * | 1,666 | 57.3 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Emilie Knight | 1,366 | 47.0 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Arif Khalfe | 899 | 30.9 | -4.4 | |
Conservative | Keith Myers † | 813 | 28.0 | -5.0 | |
Labour | Tracey Hamling | 370 | 12.7 | +4.6 | |
Labour | Gerard Hodgson ‡ | 320 | 11.0 | +3.9 | |
Green | Ginevra Gordon | 147 | 5.1 | -2.3 | |
Green | Mark Havercroft | 110 | 3.8 | -2.1 | |
Turnout | 2,905 | 46.8 | -1.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
The parishes of Earswick, Stockton-on-the-Forest, and Strensall with Towthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tony Fisher * | 1,342 | 60.0 | +8.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Healey † | 919 | 41.1 | +9.4 | |
Conservative | Paul Doughty ‡ | 877 | 39.2 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | Teri Rhodes | 586 | 26.2 | -8.8 | |
Labour | Chloe Anderson | 270 | 12.1 | +3.0 | |
Labour | Andy Carter | 182 | 8.1 | +0.3 | |
Green | Catherine Love-Smith | 130 | 5.8 | -3.3 | |
Green | Ashleigh Stevens | 64 | 2.9 | -7.0 | |
Turnout | 2,236 | 36.0 | -1.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Andrew Waller * | 1,504 | 45.6 | -13.8 | |
Labour | Jo Coles | 1,471 | 44.6 | +17.2 | |
Labour | Emily Nelson | 1,469 | 44.6 | +19.3 | |
Labour | Kerron Cross † | 1,454 | 44.1 | +19.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Pippa Hepworth | 1,341 | 40.7 | -13.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Daubeney ‡ | 1,264 | 38.3 | -9.7 | |
Conservative | Patrick Ellis | 241 | 7.3 | +2.1 | |
Green | Gillian Cossham | 216 | 6.6 | -1.8 | |
Conservative | Janet Powell | 193 | 5.9 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Tet Powell | 185 | 5.6 | +1.4 | |
Green | Mikael Hanson | 164 | 5.0 | -2.1 | |
Green | Jonathan Tyler | 155 | 4.7 | -1.9 | |
Turnout | 3,296 | 32.9 | -2.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats |
The parishes of Deighton, Elvington, Naburn, and Wheldrake
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Christian Vassie * | 603 | 43.2 | +9.1 | |
Conservative | Alan Crow | 464 | 33.2 | +4.1 | |
Labour Co-op | David Skaith | 274 | 19.6 | +12.5 | |
Green | Will Dyson | 56 | 4.0 | -4.5 | |
Turnout | 1,397 | 42.4 | -4.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold |