Brighton & Hove City Council elections – Thursday 4 May 2023

Results

The Labour group were the leading party and gained majority control of the council.  



Of the 54 ward seats up for election:

• the Labour Party won 38 seats
• the Green Party won 7 seats
• the Conservative Party won 6 seats
• Brighton & Hove Independents won 2 seats
• an independent candidate won 1 seat 

The turnout across Brighton & Hove was 83,426. This was 40.8% of an electorate of 204,255 voters.

Find out more about the results of the Brighton & Hove City Council elections. 

Voter ID statistics from polling stations

Number of voters not issued with a ballot paper

The total number of polling station electors who applied for, but at least initially were not issued with, a ballot paper (VIDEF 4a + 5a) was 335.

Of these, 213 later returned with accepted ID and were issued with a ballot paper (VIDEF 4d + 5e).

122 were not issued with a ballot paper by close of poll.

Contextual Information

The total number of electors who were eligible to vote in person at the polling stations was 173,237.

We issued 62,786 voters with a ballot paper at polling stations

Of the electors eligible to vote in person at the polling stations, 36.2% did so.

Proportions of those who tried to vote in a polling station

Of those who tried to vote in a polling station:

• 99.8% were able to vote on 4 May
• 0.2% applied for but were refused a ballot paper by the close of poll
• 0.5% applied for, but were initially refused, a ballot paper

63.6% of the electors initially refused a ballot paper later returned with accepted ID and were issued with a ballot paper.

Download more voter ID data from the Thursday 4 May 2023 local elections.