The 2019 High Peak Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 43 members of High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England.
The election resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the council from the Conservative Party after winning 22 of the 43 seats up for election. The Conservatives lost 7 of the seats they were defending and lost their majority on the council. The Liberal Democrats and Greens won 3 and 2 seats respectively.
Summary After the election, the composition of the council was: Labour 22 Conservative 16 Liberal Democrat 3 Green 2
Election result
Ward results
Changes 2019–2023
The by-election in Cote Heath ward on 7 April 2022 was won by the Conservatives, costing Labour its overall majority on the council. Samantha Flower (Conservative, Burbage) resigned from the party in March 2022 to sit as an independent, in protest at the government's handling of the visa system for refugees fleeing the invasion of Ukraine, which she described as "hostile" and "xenophobic". Kath Thomson and Shannon Thomson, a mother and daughter who had been elected for Whaley Bridge in 2019, resigned from both the council and the Labour Party in September 2022, saying in a joint statement that the party's values had been abandoned since its change of leadership and that alleged racist and sexist behaviour by senior party staff had left them feeling "betrayed and humiliated". No by-election was held for either seat, and both remained vacant until the 2023 election. Immediately before the 2023 election the council comprised 19 Labour councillors, 16 Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats, two Greens and one independent, with two vacant seats.
By-elections
Cote Heath
The by-election was called following the sudden death in early December 2021 of Labour councillor Keith Savage, who had been elected for the ward in 2019 and had first represented it from 1995.
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