Open Council Data UK - Leader and Cabinet Councils 2026

Leader and Cabinet Councils 2026 (Total 325)

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Mayor & Cabinet | Leader & Cabinet | Committee System | Alternative Arrangements

Mayor & Cabinet: Voters elect a single-authority Mayor, who in turn appoints councillors to cabinet positions.

Leader & Cabinet: All members elect a leader, who in turn appoints councillors to cabinet positions.

Committee System: All members elect a leader. Group members appointed proportionally to policy committees. Disagreements moved to full council meetings.

Alternative Arrangements: Other locally agreed governance system with consent from Secretary of State.

Council	Control	Lab	Con	LD	Green	Reform	Other	Vacant	Total
Aberdeen City	SNP/LD	11	6	3	0	1	4	0	45
Aberdeenshire	CON/LD/IND	0	20	14	0	7	10	0	70
Adur	LAB	17	0	0	2	6	4	0	29
Amber Valley	LAB min	19	8	1	5	3	6	0	42
Angus	CON/IND/LAB	1	8	0	0	0	8	0	28
Argyll and Bute	SNP/LD/IND/LAB/GRN	1	6	4	0	2	10	0	36
Ashfield	IND	0	1	0	0	3	31	0	35
Ashford	IND/GRN	7	17	0	12	0	11	0	47
Barking and Dagenham	LAB	38	0	0	4	9	0	0	51
Barnet	LAB min	31	31	0	1	0	0	0	63
Barnsley	REF	11	0	8	0	41	2	1	63
Basildon	CON min	12	12	0	0	11	7	0	42
Basingstoke and Deane	IND/LD	10	11	11	2	3	17	0	54
Bassetlaw	LAB	35	4	0	0	6	3	0	48
Bath and North East Somerset	LD	6	2	38	3	0	9	1	59
Bexley	CON	9	28	0	0	7	1	0	45
Birmingham	LD/GRN/IND min	15	16	12	19	22	17	0	101
Blaby	CON min	5	18	8	2	1	2	0	36
Blackburn with Darwen	LAB min	20	5	0	0	9	17	0	51
Blackpool	LAB	26	11	0	0	4	0	1	42
Blaenau Gwent	LAB	19	0	0	1	1	12	0	33
Bolsover	LAB	22	1	0	0	2	12	0	37
Bolton	LAB/CON/LD/IND	19	10	5	4	10	11	1	60
Boston	IND/CON	0	4	1	0	1	24	0	30
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	LD/IND	8	9	28	5	3	23	0	76
Bracknell Forest	LAB min	20	10	7	3	0	1	0	41
Bradford	REF min	17	18	4	9	28	14	0	90
Braintree	CON	9	25	0	4	1	10	0	49
Breckland	CON	9	29	0	1	5	5	0	49
Brent	LAB min	26	11	11	9	0	0	0	57
Bridgend	LAB min	25	1	0	0	0	24	0	51
Brighton and Hove	LAB	33	5	0	11	0	5	0	54
Broadland	LD/LAB/GRN	7	19	14	4	1	2	0	47
Bromley	CON	8	35	6	0	6	3	0	58
Bromsgrove	CON/IND	6	11	6	0	0	8	0	31
Broxbourne	CON	3	25	0	0	2	0	0	30
Broxtowe	IND/IND	7	10	3	0	0	24	0	44
Buckinghamshire	CON	3	50	26	2	2	14	0	97
Burnley	IND/LD/GRN	10	3	6	3	12	11	0	45
Bury	LAB	31	3	0	0	6	11	0	51
Caerphilly	LAB	42	0	0	1	0	7	1	69
Calderdale	REF	8	0	2	7	34	3	0	54
Cambridge	LAB min	17	1	11	12	0	1	0	42
Camden	LAB	31	3	10	10	0	1	0	55
Cannock Chase	REF min	10	8	0	3	14	1	0	36
Canterbury	LAB min	18	8	8	4	0	1	0	39
Cardiff	LAB	50	9	10	1	1	6	0	79
Carmarthenshire	PC	15	0	0	1	1	20	0	75
Castle Point	PIP/CIIP	0	0	0	0	1	38	0	39
Central Bedfordshire	IND min	4	20	8	1	2	28	0	63
Ceredigion	PC	0	0	7	0	0	10	0	38
Charnwood	LAB min	20	22	0	8	0	2	0	52
Chelmsford	LD	0	19	31	0	2	5	0	57
Cheltenham	LD	0	0	35	3	1	1	0	40
Cherwell	LD/GRN/IND	8	8	21	4	6	1	0	48
Cheshire East	LAB/IND	28	32	1	1	1	19	0	82
Cheshire West and Chester	LAB min	35	20	1	3	3	8	0	70
Chesterfield	LAB	27	0	11	0	2	0	0	40
Chichester	LD	0	5	24	2	0	5	0	36
Chorley	LAB	29	4	0	1	7	1	0	42
Clackmannanshire	SNP min	5	3	0	1	0	1	0	18
Colchester	CON/LD	9	18	12	3	5	4	0	51
Conwy	IND/LAB/PC	6	8	4	1	2	26	0	55
Cornwall	LD/IND	4	7	26	3	21	26	0	87
Cotswold	LD	0	10	22	1	0	1	0	34
Coventry	LAB min	24	6	0	4	20	0	0	54
Crawley	LAB	21	4	0	0	11	0	0	36
Cumberland	LAB	25	8	4	3	0	5	1	46
Dacorum	LD min	4	18	18	0	0	11	0	51
Darlington	LAB/LD	23	13	2	6	1	5	0	50
Dartford	CON	10	28	0	0	2	2	0	42
Denbighshire	LAB/PC	14	8	0	2	1	16	0	48
Derby	LAB min	24	14	3	0	6	4	0	51
Derbyshire	REF	2	10	3	3	42	4	0	64
Devon	LD/GRN	0	7	27	6	16	4	0	60
Dorset	LD/GRN	2	30	42	4	0	4	0	82
Dover	LAB min	12	13	0	0	0	6	1	32
Dudley	CON min	15	27	4	0	23	3	0	72
Dumfries and Galloway	SNP/LAB/IND/LD	8	10	1	0	0	13	0	43
Dundee City	SNP	8	1	4	0	0	1	0	29
Durham	REF	5	1	15	2	56	19	0	98
Ealing	LAB	46	5	13	5	0	1	0	70
East Ayrshire	SNP min	8	4	0	0	0	6	0	32
East Devon	LD/GRN/IND	0	12	21	3	0	22	2	60
East Dunbartonshire	SNP min	5	2	5	0	0	2	0	22
East Hampshire	CON/IND	1	18	14	1	0	9	0	43
East Hertfordshire	GRN/LD	5	14	10	16	2	3	0	50
East Lindsey	CON min	6	26	1	1	6	15	0	55
East Lothian	LAB min	10	4	0	1	0	2	0	22
East Renfrewshire	LAB/IND	5	5	0	0	0	2	0	18
East Riding of Yorkshire	CON min	4	24	21	3	3	12	0	67
East Staffordshire	LAB	21	15	0	0	0	1	0	37
East Suffolk	GRN/LD/IND	11	15	9	16	0	4	0	55
East Surrey	LD	0	10	40	8	5	9	0	72
East Sussex	REF min	0	3	13	11	22	1	0	50
Eastbourne	LD	0	8	19	0	0	0	0	27
Eastleigh	LD	0	1	34	0	0	3	1	39
Edinburgh	LAB min	11	10	14	11	0	0	2	63
Elmbridge	LD/IND	0	9	20	0	2	17	0	48
Enfield	CON min	27	31	0	5	0	0	0	63
Epping Forest	CON min	1	19	6	0	12	16	0	54
Erewash	LAB	25	16	1	1	2	2	0	47
Essex	REF	1	14	6	1	52	4	0	78
Exeter	LAB min	18	1	5	10	3	2	0	39
Falkirk	SNP min	8	4	0	0	1	6	0	30
Fareham	CON	1	22	6	0	1	2	0	32
Fenland	CON	0	35	2	0	0	6	0	43
Fife	LAB min	19	5	13	0	2	2	0	75
Flintshire	LAB min	27	1	4	0	8	27	0	67
Folkestone and Hythe	GRN/LD	8	5	2	11	1	3	0	30
Forest of Dean	GRN min	4	6	1	15	1	11	0	38
Fylde	CON	2	22	2	0	0	11	0	37
Gateshead	REF	12	0	13	3	38	0	0	66
Gedling	LAB	24	9	4	0	0	4	0	41
Glasgow City	SNP min	31	1	0	8	2	6	0	85
Gloucester	LD min	7	10	17	0	0	5	0	39
Gloucestershire	LD min	1	6	27	9	10	2	0	55
Gravesham	LAB	22	12	0	0	5	0	0	39
Great Yarmouth	CON min	18	18	0	0	0	3	0	39
Greenwich	LAB	35	6	0	13	1	0	0	55
Guildford	LD min	3	10	25	0	0	10	0	48
Gwynedd	PC	0	0	1	0	0	23	0	69
Halton	LAB	31	0	3	0	16	4	0	54
Hammersmith and Fulham	LAB	38	12	0	0	0	0	0	50
Hampshire	CON min	1	27	26	1	20	3	0	78
Harborough	CON min	2	15	7	3	2	5	0	34
Haringey	GRN min	21	0	8	28	0	0	0	57
Harrow	CON	12	41	0	0	0	2	0	55
Hart	LD/IND	0	8	13	0	0	12	0	33
Hastings	GRN	3	2	0	19	6	2	0	32
Havant	LAB/GRN/LD	7	5	5	6	10	3	0	36
Havering	REF	2	0	0	0	39	14	0	55
Herefordshire	CON min	1	20	12	8	0	12	0	53
Hertfordshire	LD min	4	22	32	5	13	2	0	78
Hertsmere	LAB/LD	12	15	7	0	2	3	0	39
High Peak	LAB	25	9	1	2	1	5	0	43
Highland	SNP/IND	2	6	15	3	0	29	1	74
Hillingdon	CON	16	31	0	1	4	1	0	53
Hinckley and Bosworth	LD	1	9	23	0	0	1	0	34
Horsham	LD	0	12	26	9	1	0	0	48
Hounslow	LAB	32	17	1	3	8	1	0	62
Huntingdonshire	LD/IND/GRN	1	15	20	2	9	4	1	52
Hyndburn	LAB min	17	8	0	1	8	1	0	35
Inverclyde	LAB min	9	2	0	0	0	5	0	22
Ipswich	LAB	29	5	3	1	10	0	0	48
Isle of Anglesey	PC	3	0	1	0	1	12	1	35
Islington	LAB	32	0	0	19	0	0	0	51
Kensington and Chelsea	CON	13	34	3	0	0	0	0	50
Kent	REF	2	6	12	5	47	9	0	81
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	IND/LD/GRN	5	17	3	0	5	23	2	55
Kingston upon Hull	LD min	16	0	26	0	10	5	0	57
Kirklees	REF min	0	9	5	12	27	15	1	69
Knowsley	LAB	24	0	3	8	4	6	0	45
Lambeth	GRN min	26	0	9	28	0	0	0	63
Lancashire	REF	5	9	5	3	52	10	0	84
Lancaster	GRN/LD/IND	20	5	7	23	0	6	0	61
Leeds	LAB min	47	14	6	11	10	11	0	99
Leicestershire	REF min	2	15	11	1	24	2	0	55
Lewes	GRN/LAB	8	0	14	18	0	1	0	41
Lichfield	CON min	14	21	7	1	1	3	0	47
Lincoln	LAB	17	2	7	1	4	2	0	33
Lincolnshire	REF	3	15	5	0	42	5	0	70
Liverpool	LAB	56	0	13	4	0	12	0	85
Luton	LAB	28	3	14	0	1	2	0	48
Maidstone	GRN/LD/IND	6	13	11	12	3	4	0	49
Malvern Hills	IND/GRN/CON/LD	0	6	4	7	1	13	0	31
Manchester	LAB	63	0	4	21	7	1	0	96
Medway	LAB	31	18	0	0	2	7	1	59
Merthyr Tydfil	IND min	15	0	0	0	0	15	0	30
Merton	LAB	32	4	19	0	0	2	0	57
Mid Devon	LD	0	3	34	3	0	2	0	42
Mid Suffolk	GRN	0	3	4	23	0	4	0	34
Mid Sussex	LD/IND	1	18	19	4	0	6	0	48
Midlothian	SNP min	6	2	0	0	0	2	0	18
Milton Keynes	LD/LAB	18	12	20	0	9	0	1	60
Mole Valley	LD	0	2	31	0	0	6	0	39
Monmouthshire	LAB min	19	19	0	1	0	7	0	46
Moray	CON min	3	10	0	2	0	4	0	26
Na h-Eileanan Siar	IND	0	1	1	0	0	22	0	29
Neath Port Talbot	IND/PC	22	0	3	1	0	23	0	60
New Forest	CON min	1	24	14	2	2	5	0	48
Newark and Sherwood	LAB min	11	12	3	1	2	10	0	39
Newcastle upon Tyne	LD min	2	0	25	23	23	4	1	78
Newcastle-under-Lyme	REF	2	15	0	0	27	0	0	44
Newport	LAB	33	6	1	2	0	9	0	51
Norfolk	REF min	1	9	13	12	39	10	0	84
North Ayrshire	SNP min	11	5	0	0	2	3	0	33
North Devon	LD	0	7	24	3	0	8	0	42
North East Derbyshire	LAB	27	14	0	1	5	6	0	53
North East Lincolnshire	REF min	11	10	3	0	14	4	0	42
North Hertfordshire	LAB min	23	7	20	0	0	1	0	51
North Kesteven	CON	2	25	1	0	2	13	0	43
North Lanarkshire	LAB min	32	5	0	1	0	16	0	77
North Lincolnshire	CON	15	27	0	0	1	0	0	43
North Norfolk	LD	0	11	26	0	0	3	0	40
North Northamptonshire	REF	4	11	1	8	40	4	0	68
North Somerset	LD/LAB/GRN/IND	10	12	9	8	2	8	1	50
North West Leicestershire	CON/LD/IND	17	12	5	0	1	3	0	38
North Yorkshire	CON min	10	41	13	5	5	16	0	90
Northumberland	CON min	8	28	3	2	19	9	0	69
Norwich	GRN	12	0	3	21	2	1	0	39
Nottingham	LAB	43	0	0	1	0	10	1	55
Nottinghamshire	REF	4	18	0	0	41	3	0	66
Nuneaton and Bedworth	REF min	10	9	0	3	16	0	0	38
Oldham	TBC	18	4	6	0	16	16	0	60
Orkney Islands	IND	0	0	0	1	0	20	0	21
Oxford	LAB min	20	0	9	13	0	6	0	48
Oxfordshire	LD	12	10	34	7	1	4	1	69
Pembrokeshire	IND/LAB/LD	9	12	2	0	1	33	0	60
Pendle	IND/LD	0	8	7	0	5	13	0	33
Perth and Kinross	SNP min	1	12	5	0	0	6	0	40
Peterborough	LAB/LD	11	13	8	7	5	16	0	60
Plymouth	LAB	30	3	0	3	16	5	0	57
Portsmouth	LD	4	3	22	0	12	1	0	42
Powys	LD/LAB	9	13	23	1	3	15	0	68
Preston	LAB min	22	3	14	2	5	2	0	48
Redbridge	LAB	43	5	0	5	1	9	0	63
Redcar and Cleveland	LAB min	20	13	10	0	1	15	0	59
Redditch	CON/IND	13	4	0	0	7	3	0	27
Reigate and Banstead	CON min	0	16	4	14	0	10	1	45
Renfrewshire	SNP min	12	3	1	0	3	4	0	43
Rhondda Cynon Taf	LAB	58	1	0	1	0	6	1	75
Rochdale	LAB	31	7	3	0	15	4	0	60
Rossendale	LAB	19	5	0	4	1	1	0	30
Rother	IND/LD/LAB/GRN	6	10	9	3	1	9	0	38
Rotherham	LAB	31	13	3	1	1	10	0	59
Rugby	LAB/LD	12	15	12	0	3	0	0	42
Rushcliffe	CON	9	23	1	2	1	8	0	44
Rushmoor	LAB min	18	10	3	0	6	2	0	39
Rutland	LD min	2	7	10	0	0	8	0	27
Sandwell	REF	28	0	0	2	41	1	0	72
Scottish Borders	CON/IND	0	14	3	1	0	9	0	34
Sefton	LAB	36	0	17	3	4	6	0	66
Sevenoaks	CON min	0	26	14	4	2	8	0	54
Shetland Islands	IND	0	0	0	1	0	21	0	23
Shropshire	LD	4	7	40	4	15	4	0	74
Slough	CON/LD	11	19	10	1	0	1	0	42
Solihull	CON min	0	25	6	4	16	0	0	51
Somerset	LD	5	31	62	5	3	4	0	110
South Ayrshire	CON min	5	5	0	0	0	13	0	28
South Cambridgeshire	LD	0	2	43	0	0	0	0	45
South Gloucestershire	LD/LAB	14	22	19	1	0	4	1	61
South Hams	LD	1	7	19	3	0	1	0	31
South Holland	CON	0	19	0	0	5	12	1	37
South Kesteven	IND/GRN/LD	2	17	3	2	5	27	0	56
South Lanarkshire	LAB/LD/IND	24	5	3	1	3	2	1	64
South Norfolk	CON min	9	23	9	1	0	4	0	46
South Oxfordshire	LD	3	1	20	8	0	4	0	36
South Ribble	LAB	28	16	5	0	1	0	0	50
South Staffordshire	CON	2	28	4	2	0	5	1	42
South Tyneside	REF	1	0	0	10	40	2	1	54
Southampton	LAB min	24	6	8	5	8	0	0	51
Southend-on-Sea	LAB/GRN/LD	17	11	3	4	11	5	0	51
Southwark	GRN/LD	29	0	12	22	0	0	0	63
St Albans	LD	2	5	44	3	0	2	0	56
St. Helens	REF	3	1	3	0	34	6	1	48
Stafford	LAB/IND/GRN	12	15	1	5	0	7	0	40
Staffordshire	REF	1	12	0	1	44	4	0	62
Staffordshire Moorlands	LAB min	20	22	1	2	1	10	0	56
Stevenage	LAB	21	1	6	0	10	1	0	39
Stirling	LAB min	4	7	0	1	0	1	0	23
Stockport	LD	14	1	34	4	2	8	0	63
Stockton-on-Tees	LAB min	22	26	0	0	0	8	0	56
Stoke-on-Trent	LAB	27	8	0	0	5	4	0	44
Stratford-on-Avon	LD	0	10	24	3	2	2	0	41
Stroud	GRN min	17	6	2	24	0	2	0	51
Suffolk	REF	3	9	2	13	41	2	0	70
Sunderland	REF	5	0	12	0	58	0	0	75
Surrey	CON min	2	39	19	2	3	16	0	81
Surrey Heath	LD	2	6	23	1	0	3	0	35
Swansea	LAB	44	5	14	1	0	11	0	75
Swindon	CON min	19	23	1	0	14	0	0	57
Tameside	LAB min	25	5	0	0	19	8	0	57
Tamworth	LAB min	14	3	0	1	11	1	0	30
Teignbridge	LD	0	9	25	0	1	12	0	47
Telford and Wrekin	LAB	38	8	6	0	0	2	0	54
Tendring	IND/LAB/LD	7	13	4	0	7	17	0	48
Test Valley	CON	0	25	16	0	0	2	0	43
Tewkesbury	LD/IND/GRN	0	9	15	4	1	9	0	38
Thanet	LAB	29	13	0	7	5	2	0	56
Thurrock	REF	2	2	0	0	43	0	2	49
Tonbridge and Malling	CON min	2	21	11	8	0	2	0	44
Torbay	CON min	0	17	15	0	0	4	0	36
Torfaen	LAB	28	0	0	0	4	8	0	40
Trafford	LAB	35	12	7	7	1	1	0	63
Tunbridge Wells	LD	3	7	25	0	0	4	0	39
Uttlesford	IND	0	11	3	0	3	21	1	39
Vale of Glamorgan	LAB/IND	24	13	0	0	0	9	0	54
Vale of White Horse	LD	0	1	31	3	0	3	0	38
Wakefield	REF	1	1	2	1	55	3	0	63
Walsall	REF	1	10	0	0	39	10	0	60
Waltham Forest	GRN	15	14	0	31	0	0	0	60
Wandsworth	CON min	27	29	0	0	0	1	1	58
Warrington	LAB	40	2	11	0	0	5	0	58
Warwick	GRN/LAB	7	5	10	15	0	7	0	44
Warwickshire	REF min	3	9	14	6	17	8	0	57
Waverley	LD/IND/GRN	0	10	24	1	0	14	1	50
Wealden	LD/GRN	2	9	11	11	2	10	0	45
Welwyn Hatfield	LAB/LD	16	12	15	0	3	2	0	48
West Berkshire	LD	1	11	28	2	0	1	0	43
West Dunbartonshire	LAB min	8	0	0	0	0	7	0	22
West Lancashire	CON min	13	12	0	0	7	13	0	45
West Lothian	LAB min	11	4	1	0	1	2	0	33
West Northamptonshire	REF	8	17	7	0	39	5	0	76
West Oxfordshire	LD/LAB/GRN	8	16	20	4	1	0	0	49
West Suffolk	LAB/IND/GRN/LD	15	23	1	2	3	19	1	64
West Surrey	LD	0	20	56	0	9	5	0	90
West Sussex	LD/GRN	5	11	23	7	23	1	0	70
Westminster	CON	22	32	0	0	0	0	0	54
Westmorland and Furness	LD	15	9	35	1	1	4	0	65
Wigan	LAB	42	0	0	0	25	8	0	75
Wiltshire	LD/IND	1	38	43	0	10	6	0	98
Winchester	LD	0	4	36	4	0	1	0	45
Windsor and Maidenhead	LD	0	7	21	0	1	12	0	41
Woking	LD	1	0	22	0	0	6	1	30
Wokingham	LD	5	19	29	1	0	0	0	54
Wolverhampton	LAB	35	9	0	0	13	3	0	60
Worcester	LAB min	17	0	5	11	1	1	0	35
Worcestershire	GRN/CON/LD/IND	2	13	6	8	21	7	0	57
Worthing	LAB min	15	6	1	8	5	2	0	37
Wrexham	IND/CON	14	7	0	0	1	27	0	56
Wychavon	CON	1	26	8	6	1	1	0	43
Wyre	CON	15	27	0	0	4	4	0	50
Wyre Forest	CON	3	18	0	1	1	10	0	33
York	LAB	24	3	19	0	0	1	0	47
	Totals:	4109	3469	2897	1110	2167	2194	39	16594

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