Leaders of Councils

1996

May – Stephen Houghton (Barnsley)

1997

May – Paul Bettison (Bracknell Forest)

2005

20 May – Martin Hill (Lincolnshire)

2007

22 May – Hazel Simmons (Luton)

2008

14 May – Teresa O’Neill (Bexley)

2009

25 June – John Hart (Devon)
16 October – Dave Hodgson (Bedford)

2010

19 May – Mark Hawthorne (Gloucestershire)
21 May – Rob Polhill (Halton)
May – Ravi Govindia (Wandsworth)

2011

6 May – Peter Soulsby (Leicester)
19 May – Steve Brady (Kingston-upon-Hull)
25 May – Nick Forbes (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
25 May – Martin Tett (Buckinghamshire)
29 May – Bob Cook (Stockton-on-Tees)

2012

21 May – Ruth Dombey (Sutton)
26 September – Nick Rushton (Leicestershire)

2013

11 April – David Renard (Swindon)
2 May – Norma Redfearn (North Tyneside)
3 May – Ros Jones (Doncaster)
14 May – David Finch (Essex)
16 May – Stewart Young (Cumbria)
21 May – Keith Glazier (East Sussex)
22 May – Izzi Seccombe (Warwickshire)
10 October – Richard Watts (Islington)

2014

13 May – Steve Count (Cambridgeshire)
17 May – Darren Rodwell (Barking and Dagenham)
23 May – Stephen Cowan (Hammersmith and Fulham)
26 May – Peter Marland (Milton Keynes)
29 May – Muhammed Butt (Brent)
10 June – Steve Curran (Hounslow)
12 June – Jas Athwal (Redbridge)
11 August – Mike Bird (Walsall)

2015

4 March – Chris Read (Rotherham)
12 May – John Holdich (Peterborough)
20 May – Carl Les (North Yorkshire)
21 May – Mohammed Khan (Blackburn with Darwen)
21 May – Ian Maher (Sefton)
27 May – Alan Jarrett (Medway)
27 May – Tim Swift (Calderdale)
11 June – John Biggs (Tower Hamlets)

2016

14 January – Simon Geraghty (Worcestershire)
6 May – Paul Dennett (Salford)
7 May – Marvin Rees (Bristol)
17 May – Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford)
19 May – George Duggins (Coventry)
20 May – Martin Gannon (Gateshead)
25 May – Rob Gledhill (Thurrock)
27 May – Shaun Davies (Telford and Wrekin)
15 September – Philip Glanville (Hackney)

2017

16 January – Rob Waltham (North Lincolnshire)
18 January – Dave Stewart (Isle of Wight)
5 February – Oliver Hemsley (Rutland)
15 May – Peter Nutting (Shropshire)
17 May – Georgia Gould (Camden)
18 May – Patrick Harley (Dudley)
24 May – David Fothergill (Somerset)
24 May – Barry Lewis (Derbyshire)
25 May – Clare Coghill (Waltham Forest)
25 May – Kay Cutts (Nottinghamshire)
25 May – Geoff Driver (Lancashire)
19 July – Elizabeth Campbell (Kensington and Chelsea)
11 September – Ian Ward (Birmingham)
26 September – Colin Smith (Bromley)
28 November – James Swindlehurst (Slough)
13 December – Allen Brett (Rochdale)

2018

31 January – Brenda Warrington (Tameside)
3 May – Tudor Evans (Plymouth) [previously Leader for an additional period]
3 May – Rokhsana Fiaz (Newham)
3 May – Damian White (Havering)
4 May – Damien Egan (Lewisham)
14 May – Christopher Hammond (Southampton)
15 May – David Molyneux (Wigan)
15 May – Gerald Vernon-Jackson (Portsmouth) [previously Leader from 2004-2014]
16 May – Neil Caliskan (Enfield)
16 May – Graeme Miller (Sunderland)
16 May – Toby Savage (South Gloucestershire)
18 May – Graham Morgan (Knowsley)
22 May – Gareth Roberts (Richmond upon Thames)
23 May – Sean Fielding (Oldham)
23 May – Shabir Pandor (Kirklees)
23 May – Chris Poulter (Derby)
23 May – Andrew Western (Trafford)
24 May – Joseph Ejiofor (Haringey)
24 May – Matthew Hicks (Suffolk)
24 May – Sachin Shah (Harrow)
25 May – Danny Thorpe (Greenwich)
1 June – Andrew Proctor (Norfolk)
11 December – Tim Oliver (Surrey)
17 December – Russ Bowden (Warrington)

2019

13 February – Jack Hopkins (Lambeth)
11 March – Phillip Jackson (North East Lincolnshire)
2 May – Andy Preston (Middlesbrough)
3 May – David Mellen (Nottingham)
8 May – Richard Burton (East Riding of Yorkshire)
8 May – Keith Mans (Hampshire)
10 May – Don Davies (North Somerset)
10 May – Louise Gittins (Cheshire West and Chester)
13 May – Mary Lanigan (Redcar and Cleveland)
14 May – Abi Brown (Stoke-on-Trent)
14 May – Ian Courts (Solihull)
15 May – Ian Brookfield (Wolverhampton)
16 May – Spencer Flower (Dorset)
18 May – John Halsall (Wokingham)
21 May – Julian German (Cornwall)
21 May – Elise Wilson (Stockport)
22 May – Keith Aspden (York)
22 May – David Baines (St Helens)
22 May – Sam Corcoran (Cheshire East)
22 May – David Greenhalgh (Bolton)
22 May – Daniel Thomas (Barnet)
23 May – Jason Brock (Reading)
23 May – Heather Scott (Darlington)
24 May – Lynne Doherty (West Berkshire)
24 May – David Hitchiner (Herefordshire)
29 May – Steve Darling (Torbay)
3 June – Ian Gilbert (Southend-on-Sea)
12 September – Shane Moore (Hartlepool)
19 September – Andrew Johnson (Windsor and Maidenhead)
4 October – Roger Gough (Kent)
18 October – Paul Marshall (West Sussex)
1 December – Denise Jeffery (Wakefield)

2020

22 January – Rachael Robathan (Westminster)
24 March – Liz Green (Kingston upon Thames)
20 May – Eamonn O’Brien (Bury)
20 July – Lynn Williams (Blackpool)
23 July – Phelim MacCafferty (Brighton and Hove)
23 July – Alan White (Staffordshire)
17 September – Kieron Williams (Southwark)
23 September – Glen Sanderson (Northumberland)
28 September – Janette Williamson (Wirral)
1 October – Drew Mellor (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)
22 October – Hamida Ali (Croydon)
20 November – Mark Allison (Merton)
25 November – Tracey Dixon (South Tyneside)
7 December – Bob Johnson (Sheffield)

2021

14 January – Ian Edwards (Hillingdon)
14 January – Richard Wenham (Central Bedfordshire)
24 February – James Lewis (Leeds)
4 May – Kevin Guy (Bath and North East Somerset)
19 May – Richard Clewer (Wiltshire)
19 May – Rajbir Singh (Sandwell)
25 May – Richard Roberts (Hertfordshire)
30 November – Anna Smith (Cambridge)
1 December – Bev Craig (Manchester)