2024 Peterborough City Council election

The 2024 Peterborough City Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Peterborough City Council in Cambridgeshire, England. 23 of the 60 seats on the council were contested, including an early election in Werrington. The election took place alongside other local elections across England.

Overview
Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being led by a minority administration of local party Peterborough First.

All but two seats up for election in 2024 were last defended in 2021. Park ward was last defended in 2023, whilst one vacated seat in Werrington was last defended in 2022.

Going into the election, the position of the parties and the number of seats they were defending was: * Two of the Conservative defences were in Stanground South and Wittering, where the incumbents had defected to Peterborough First.
 * Conservative: 17 defences* (8 other seats)
 * Labour (and co-operative) Party: 2 defences (12 other seats)
 * Peterborough First: 2 defences** (6 other seats)
 * Liberal Democrats: 1 defence (7 other seats)
 * Green Party: 1 defence (2 other seats)
 * Independents: 0 defences*** (2 other seats)

** Peterborough First's two defences were in Werrington, where the incumbents were elected for the group's predecessor, Werrington First.

*** The Green Party's defence was in Orton Waterville, where the incumbent councillor - Kirsty Knight - resigned from the party shortly before the election.

Following the election, the council remained under no overall control. Labour became the largest party. Labour subsequently formed a minority administration, with their group leader Dennis Jones being formally appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2024.

Ward results
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Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2021; changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2021 election.

Barnack
The incumbent, David Over (Conservative) did not contest this election.

Bretton
UKIP (3.35% in 2021) and For Britain (1.08% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Central
Freedom Alliance (2.42% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Dogsthorpe
Colin Hargreaves (Independent – 11.35% in 2021) and UKIP (3.95% in 2021) did not contest this election.

East
Incumbent Jackie Allen (Conservative) did not contest this seat in 2024. She, instead, contested the Orton Waterville ward.

Eye, Thorney and Newborough
Incumbent Nigel Simons (Conservative) and the Liberal Democrats (3.6% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Fletton and Stanground
Incumbent Oliver Sainsbury (Conservative) and John Whitby (Independent – 10.6% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Fletton and Woodston
Freedom Alliance (2.7% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Blakemore-Creedon's win made her one of the youngest councillors in the country - and the youngest ever elected in Peterborough.

Glinton and Castor
The incumbent, Saqib Farooq (Peterborough First), defected from the Conservative Party in July 2023. He will not fight this seat in 2024, instead, contesting Hargate and Hempsted.

Gunthorpe
Christian Peoples Alliance (1.3% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Hargate and Hempsted
Incumbent Nicolle Trust (Conservative) did not contest this election.

Saqib Farooq (Peterborough First) was an incumbent councillor in Glinton and Castor prior to this election.

North
Incumbent Mohammed Haseeb (Labour) did not contest this election.

Orton Longueville
Incumbent Graham Casey (Conservative) did not contest this election.

Orton Waterville
The incumbent, Kirsty Knight (Independent), quit the Green Party in March 2024.

Conservative Party candidate Jackie Allen was an incumbent councillor in East Ward prior to the election.

Park
This seat was last contested in 2023, changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2023 election.

Incumbent Muhammad Asif (Conservative) did not contest this election.

Stanground South
The incumbent, Chris Harper (Leader of Peterborough First), defected from the Conservative Party in December 2021.

Werrington
One vacant seat was up for election, alongside the incumbent.

The two seats were previously represented by Werrington First - the predecessor group to Peterborough First.

West
Freedom Alliance (1.9% in 2021) and UKIP (1.7% in 2021) did not contest this election.

Wittering
The incumbent Gavin Elsey (Peterborough First) defected from the Conservative Party in May 2023.

John Stannage (Independent – 14.3% in 2021), the Green Party (25.35%) and the Liberal Democrats (3.14%) will not be contesting this election.

Changes 2024–2026

 * Simon Barkham, elected for the Liberal Democrats, left the party to sit as an independent shortly after the May 2024 elections.