2019 United Kingdom Local Elections (The More Things Changed)

Local elections in parts of the United Kingdom were held on Thursday May 2nd, 2019, with 248 English local councils, six directly elected mayors in England, and all 11 local councils in Northern Ireland being contested. It was the first major electoral contest since the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

A total of 8,886 councillors were elected: terms were up for 8,861 seats, but eight elections for a total of 14 seats were postponed due to the death of a candidate; there were also casual vacancies to be filled: 38 in England (including on nine councils with no other elections) and one on Dundee City Council in Scotland.

With the exception of areas whose electoral cycle has temporarily changed due to a boundary review or permanently changed, or that have been reorganized, the seats up for election in England were last contested in the 2015 local elections, on the same day as the general election of that year. The seats in Northern Ireland were last regularly contested in 2014.

Conservative councillors were elected to 1,734 seats. Labour won 1,730 seats. The biggest winners of the election were the Liberal Democrats, who won 2,161 councillors, and the newly-formed Brexit Party, who won 2,088 seats.