The 2019 Scarborough Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of the Scarborough Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections.
While the Conservative Party remained the largest party on the council, they lost their majority, and thereby control of the council. In the aftermath of the election, a new administration led by the Labour Party, with support from the Green Party and a number of independent councillors, was formed; this administration would hold control of the council until its dissolution and replacement by the unitary North Yorkshire Council in 2023.
Results summary
Ward results
Burniston & Cloughton
Castle
Cayton
Danby & Mulgrave
Derwent Valley & Moor
Eastfield
Esk Valley
Falsgrave & Stepney
Filey
Fylingdales & Ravenscar
Hunmanby
Mayfield
Newby
Northstead
Scalby
Seamer
Streonshalh
Weaponness & Ramshill
Whitby West Cliff
Woodlands
Changes 2019–2023
May 2019: Labour councillor Steve Siddons became leader of the council and a Labour-led administration was formed with support from independent councillors. January 2020: Andrew Backhouse resigned from the Conservative Group and joined the Independent Group, while Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff resigned from the Independent Group and became an independent councillor. By May 2021: Jane Mortimer, elected as a Conservative councillor for Fylingdales & Ravenscar, was listed by the council as an independent councillor. 21 May 2021: Hazel Lynskey resigned from the Conservative Group and sat as an independent councillor. February 2022: David Chance, a Conservative councillor for Mayfield, resigned from the council, creating a vacancy. October 2022: Hazel Lynskey, the ward member for Scalby, died after a short illness, leaving a vacancy. The vacancy was not filled before the borough was dissolved on 1 April 2023. November 2022: Theresa Norton, formerly a member of the Labour Group, became an independent councillor. 1 April 2023: Scarborough Borough Council was abolished and its functions transferred to North Yorkshire Council, the new unitary authority for the county.
By-elections
Mayfield
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Conservative councillor David Chance, who had been elected for one of the two Mayfield seats at the 2019 election.
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