2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election

2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election

← 2023 2 May 2024 2025 →
17 of 51 seats 26 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ian Courts Max McLoughlin Laura McCarthy Party Conservative Green Liberal Democrats Seats before 29 12 6
Ward map of Solihull, 2024
Leader before election Ian Courts Conservative Leader after election TBD

The 2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election will take place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands. This will be on the same day as other local elections. 17 of the 51 seats are up for election.

Background[edit]

Since its creation in 1974, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has always had the Conservatives as the largest party, with some periods of no overall control. Labour came the closest to overtaking them in 1996, when they won 16 seats to the Conservatives' 17.^[1] In the 2023 election, the Conservatives gained two seats on a vote share of 38.4% (-7.5), the Green Party lost 1 seat with 29.8% of the vote (+4.2), the Liberal Democrats gained 1 seat on 16.1% (+2.6), and Labour lost their sole remaining seat on 14.9% (+2.9).

The seats up for election in 2024 were last elected in 2021 (the election was delayed by 1 year due to COVID-19, meaning these councillors served a 3-year term). In that election, the Conservatives gained 3 seats with 53.8% of the vote, the Green party gained 1 with 20.5%, the Liberal Democrats lost 3 with 12.2%, and Labour lost 1 with 12.9%.

Previous council composition[edit]

Changes:

• Stephen Rymer leaves Green Party to sit as an independent^[3]

Councillors standing down[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Bickenhill[edit]

Bickenhill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alison Rolf	1,720	60.9	6.4
	Labour	Margaret Turner	654	23.2	6.6
	Green	Mark Pearson	301	10.7	0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Pilarski	149	5.3	0.3
Majority			1066	37.7	13.0
Turnout			2824
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.5

Blythe[edit]

Blythe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Green	2,459	60.2	7.2
	Labour	Noel Grace	915	22.4	9.3
	Green	Carol Linfield	409	10.0	4.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Wyatt	302	7.4	N/A
Majority			1544	37.8	15.5
Turnout			4085
	Conservative hold		Swing	8.3

Castle Bromwich[edit]

Castle Bromwich

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin McCarthy	1,742	60.6	10.0
	Labour	Emma Chidler	658	22.9	8.8
	Green	Akin Kog	372	12.9	22.4
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Evans	102	3.5	N/A
Majority			1084	37.7	22.4
Turnout			2874
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.6

Chelmsley Wood[edit]

Chelmsley Wood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Shesh Sheshabhatter	901	58.2	2.0
	Labour	Kenneth Harrop	348	22.5	4.8
	Conservative	Georgina Hartland	253	16.3	4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Matt Purssell	47	3.0	N/A
Majority			553	35.7	4.0
Turnout			1549
	Green hold		Swing	3.4

Dorridge and Hockley Heath[edit]

Dorridge and Hockley Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sally Tomlinson	2,518	63.8	5.8
	Green	Jane Holt	619	15.7	6.0
	Labour	David Brittin	596	15.1	4.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Godfrey	214	5.4	1.6
Majority			1899	48.1	10.3
Turnout			3947
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.9

Elmdon[edit]

Elmdon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Jones	1,231	39.4	3.9
	Conservative	Yvonne Clements	1176	37.6	6.0
	Labour	Lisa Holcroft	473	15.1	2.1
	Green	Margaret Ryan	140	4.5	N/A
	Independent	Paul Edwards	107	3.4	N/A
Majority			55	1.8	N/A
Turnout			3127
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	1.1

Kingshurst and Fordbridge[edit]

Kingshurst and Fordbridge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hazel Dawkins	667	40.6	18.0
	Conservative	Brent Robertson	652	39.7	4.6
	Green	Stephen Caudwell	271	16.5	25.8
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Phipps	51	3.1	N/A
Majority			15	0.9	N/A
Turnout			1641
	Labour gain from Green		Swing	21.9

Knowle[edit]

Knowle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Pinwell	2,483	67.2	6.3
	Labour	Simon Johnson	579	15.7	4.8
	Green	Mark Amphlett	374	10.1	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Lionel King	259	7.0	0.1
Majority			1904
Turnout			3695	51.5	11.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.6

Lyndon[edit]

Lyndon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Josh O'Nyons	1,323	39.8	4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Paul McCabe	1201	36.1	4.7
	Labour	Sheila Brookes	565	17.0	1.9
	Green	Roger Halford	189	5.7	N/A
	TUSC	Lynsey Fraser-Smith	46	1.4	N/A
Majority			122	3.7	0.3
Turnout			3324
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.2

Meriden[edit]

Meriden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Dicicco	2,301	61.6	4.2
	Labour	Cathy Connan	690	18.5	7.7
	Green	Antony Lowe	384	10.3	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Lee	362	9.7	N/A
Majority			1611	43.1	9.5
Turnout			3737
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.0

Olton[edit]

Olton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Phipps	1,858	44.2	4.1
	Conservative	James Johnson	1641	39.1	8.8
	Labour	Jack Simpson	461	11.0	1.1
	Green	Stephen Holt	242	5.8	N/A
Majority			217	5.2	N/A
Turnout			4202
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	6.5

Shirley East[edit]

Shirley East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Karen Grinsell	2,027	56.3	9.1
	Labour	Gerard Dufficy	947	26.3	18.0
	Green	Alan Wigley	390	10.8	13.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jamshid Moori	234	6.5	N/A
Majority			1080	30.0	27.2
Turnout			3598
	Conservative hold		Swing	4.5

Shirley South[edit]

Shirley South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Max McLoughlin	1,914	50.3	0.8
	Conservative	Jessica Thompson	1277	33.5	5.8
	Labour	Shirley Young	485	12.7	4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Dawson	131	3.4	N/A
Majority			637	16.7	4.3
Turnout			3807
	Green hold		Swing	2.5

Shirley West[edit]

Shirley West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Prish Sharma	1,449	41.9	7.0
	Green	Shelley Haughney	1069	30.9	20.2
	Labour	Kevin Raven	615	17.8	3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Gayle Monk	166	4.8	N/A
	Independent	Mark Windridge	161	4.7	N/A
Majority			380	11.0	N/A
Turnout			3460
	Conservative gain from Green		Swing	13.6

Silhill[edit]

Smith's Wood[edit]

St. Alphege[edit]

References[edit]