United Kingdom local elections, 1999

← 1998

6 May 1999

2000 →

All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 35 out of 46 unitary authorities,
237 out of 238 English districts, all 32 Scottish council areas
and all 22 Welsh principal areas

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Tony Blair	William Hague	Paddy Ashdown
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	21 July 1994	19 June 1997	16 July 1988
Percentage	36	34	24
Councils	137	61	20
Councils +/-	32	48	11
Councillors	4,802	3,751	2,607
Councillors +/-	1,161	1,344	75

Local elections took place in much of the United Kingdom on 6 May 1999. All Scottish and Welsh unitary authorities had all their seats elected. In England a third of the seats on each of the Metropolitan Boroughs were elected along with elections in many of the unitary authorities and district councils. There were no local elections in Northern Ireland.

The elections saw Labour, now in their second year of government, suffer a setback as the opposition Conservatives gained ground.

All 36 English Metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

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