2021 Cornwall Council election

The 2021 Cornwall Council election is scheduled to take place in May 2021 as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections. It will be contested under new ward boundaries as the number of seats on the Council goes from 123 (in 2017) to 87.

May 2021

87 seats to Cornwall Council
44 seats needed for a majority

	Con	LD	Ind
Leader	Linda Taylor[1]	Adam Paynter[2]	Carolyn Rule[3]
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Independent
Leader's seat	Lelant and Carbis Bay	Launceston North and North Petherwin	Mullion and Grade-Ruan
Last election	46 seats, 37.4%	38 seats, 30.9%	30 seats, 24.4%
Seats needed		6

	Lab	MK
Leader	Stephen Barnes[4]	Dick Cole[5]
Party	Labour	Mebyon Kernow
Leader's seat	Redruth North	St Enoder
Last election	5 seats, 4.1%	4 seats, 3.3%
Seats needed	39	40

Incumbent Council control

No Overall Control

Background

Cornwall Council is a unitary authority which has held elections every four years since its creation in 2009.[6] In the previous election in 2017, the Conservative Party won the most seats but short of a majority. The Liberal Democrats continued to govern the council in coalition with independent councillors.

Following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, the number of councillors to be elected has been reduced for this election from 123 in previous elections to 87.[7][8]

Misri Dey, a person of colour standing for the Labour Party in Falmouth, encouraged other people of colour to stand in the election, saying that it was important "to see role models of all kinds".[9]

References

"Linda Taylor". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
"Adam Paynter". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
"Carolyn Rule". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
"Stephen Barnes". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
"Dick Cole". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
"Election Timetable in England" (PDF). GOV.UK. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
"36 councillors could be cut from Cornwall Council in 2021". ITV. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
Whitehouse, Richard (2 May 2019). "Why there are no local elections in Cornwall in May 2019". Cornwall Live. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
Ferguson, Emma. "Falmouth lecturer's call to people of colour ahead of election". Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

Council elections in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
Cornwall Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Council of the Isles of Scilly	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Caradon District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
Carrick District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
Kerrier District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
North Cornwall District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
Penwith District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Restormel Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
See also: Wards Boundary changes

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