United Kingdom local elections, 2000

1999 ←

4 May 2000

→ 2001

All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 27 out of 46 unitary authorities, 89 out of 238 English districts, 1 directly elected mayor and 1 regional assembly

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Tony Blair	William Hague	Charles Kennedy
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	21 July 1994	19 June 1997	9 August 1999
Percentage	30	32%	26
Councils	57	8	11
Councils +/-	16	1	1
Councillors	1,112	1,085	733
Councillors +/-	568	256	21

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Local elections took place in some parts of England on 4 May 2000. 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 elections in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Below is a summary of the results of the 2000 local elections.

In 1 English Metropolitan borough council the whole council was up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

In 35 English Metropolitan borough councils, one third of the council was up for election.

In 11 English Unitary authorities, the whole council was up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

In 16 English Unitary authorities, one third of the council was up for election.

In 9 English district authorities, the whole council was up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

In 80 English district authorities, one third of the council was up for election.