2024 Harlow District Council election
Dan Swords Conservative Dan Swords Conservative The 2024 Harlow District Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day.Labour held a majority on the council from its creation until 2002, when the district fell into no overall control.[1] The Conservatives held a majority for the first time following the 2008 election, but Labour retook control in 2012.In the build up to the May 2024 election, Conservative candidate James Leppard was suspended from the party pending investigation,[3] following a Hope Not Hate allegation of Islamophobia.His suspension from the party was lifted a few weeks after the election, after an investigation concluded that his comments which had triggered the complaint had been selectively edited and taken out of context.