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The 2015 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 2015, the same day as the general election for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. ==Election summary== In 2015, direct elections were held in 279 of the 293 local districts in England: 36 metropolitan boroughs, 194 of the second-tier districts, and 49 of the unitary authorities.〔Chris Game, ( The forgotten local elections – Conservatives defy predictions in council votes too ), ''The Conversation'' (May 11, 2015).〕 There were no local elections in London, Scotland, or Wales.〔〔The English local government bodies which did ''not'' hold local elections were seven unitary authorities (Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Isles of Scilly, Shropshire and Wiltshire), seven district and borough councils (Adur, Cheltenham, Fareham, Gosport, Hastings, Nuneaton and Bedworth and Oxford), and the 32 London boroughs.〕 There were also six elections for directly elected mayors, as well as elections to many parish councils and town councils, and a few local referenda.〔 As was the case in the simultaneously-held general election, the Conservative Party was considered the clear winners of the local elections, winning overall control of more than thirty local councils, mostly from councils that before the election had no overall control (i.e., no majority held by any one party).〔 The Conservatives retained control of the Solihull and Trafford councils, the only two metropolitan boroughs that it held before the election, slightly increasing its majority on both.〔 Among the unitary councils, the Conservatives won control of Bath and North East Somerset for the first time.〔 As was the case in the general election, the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats performed poorly.〔 Labour lost control of the Walsall metropolitan borough and the Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent unitary authorities, both to no overall control.〔 The Green Party of England and Wales lost control of the Brighton and Hove City Council (the first and only council in which the Greens had been the largest party) to Labour.〔〔(Elections 2015: Green Party loses Brighton Council to Labour ), BBC News (May 10, 2015).〕 The UK Independence Party won control of the Thanet District Council, going from two to 33 seats on that council. This marked the first time that UKIP won control of a local council.〔〔(Election 2015: UKIP controls Thanet Council ), BBC News (May 10, 2015).〕〔David Feeney, (Ukip wins control of its first UK council ), ''Guardian'' (May 9, 2015).〕 According to an analysis by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, more than three-quarters of councils across the UK are now under the majority control of the two largest parties, Conservative and Labour—the highest percentage since the 1970s local government reform.〔Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, (Local elections analysis: Talk of multi-party England is premature ), ''Local Government Chronicle'' (May 11, 2015).〕 The dominance of the Conservative and Labour parties was not limited to control of councils, but also extended to a seat count, with the two parties holding 77% of seats, the highest since 1980.〔 Rallings and Thrasher found that the decline of the Liberal Democrats accounted for part of this trend.〔 They concluded that "much is said about multi-party Britain but it is time instead to talk about two-party local government."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Kingdom local elections, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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