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Elections 2022 details

Here are the parts of Yorkshire where voting took place in the May 5, 2022 local government elections:

North Yorkshire

• Councillors elected in the North Yorkshire County Council elections will go on to serve in the country's largest unitary authority in 2023 as North Yorkshire's already-large district authorities are scrapped.

A "single-tier" unitary authority will from 2023 have responsibility for all the present functions of the North Yorkshire County Council plus those of the seven district authorities of

Scarborough and

Selby. It will stretch its budget across 3,109 square miles, an area about 92 miles wide and including around 500 towns and villages and North Yorkshire's one small city, Ripon. Around 600,000 people are spread across the North Yorkshire county, which includes parts of the former North, West and East Ridings of Yorkshire.

The number of North Yorkshire councillors elected has been increased to 90 spread across 89 divisions of widely differing area, but based on population size. Selby West will have two councillors elected in one division.

Read more on this Elections for new North Yorkshire page.

West Yorkshire

• The election of one-third of the council took place in the five metropolitan district authorities:

Bradford,

Calderdale,

Kirklees,

Leeds and

Wakefield.

South Yorkshire

• The election of one-third of the council took place in two of the four metropolitan district authorities:

Barnsley and

Sheffield.

• The election of Mayor for the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority was held in all four metropolitan district authorities:

Barnsley,

Doncaster,

Rotherham and

Sheffield.

City of Hull

• Election of one of the councillors in most of the council wards of the City of

Hull unitary authority.

Pendle

• Election of one-third of the

Pendle Borough Council, a shire district of Lancashire. Nearly one-third of Pendle was in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.

Oldham

• Election of one-third of the

Oldham Council, a metropolitan district of Greater Manchester. About half of the Oldham metropolitan district was in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.

Cumbria

• Unlike North Yorkshire, the smaller county of Cumbria with its six districts is being carved up into two unitary authorities. Cumbria County Council will disappear in 2023 and its district councils will also be abolished under the Government's latest local government reorganisation.

South Lakeland is one of those district authorities and it includes areas (around Sedbergh) which were in the West Riding of Yorkshire prior to the 1974 reorganisation. South Lakeland will be abolished and become part of an even larger unitary authority to be known as Westmorland and Furness Council. Elections took place this May 5 to elect 65 councillors for a shadow authority who will continue in office for a further four years when the new council goes live next year. One, two or three candidates have been elected in the various wards of the new council. The other unitary authority of Cumbria will be known as Cumberland, but the boundaries of the new authorities are aligned to the edges of the current districts and way adrift from the pre-1974 historic counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and West Riding of Yorkshire.

Elections 2022 results

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