Metropolitan Boroughs
All 36 English Metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.
| Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Birmingham | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Bolton | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
| Bradford | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Bury | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Calderdale | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
| Coventry | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
| Doncaster | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Dudley | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
| Gateshead | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Kirklees | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Knowsley | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Leeds | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Liverpool | Liberal Democrat | Liberal Democrat hold | Details | ||
| Manchester | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Newcastle upon Tyne | Liberal Democrat | Liberal Democrat hold | |||
| North Tyneside | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
| Oldham | Labour | No overall control | |||
| Rochdale | No overall control | Liberal Democrat gain | Details | ||
| Rotherham | Labour | Labour hold | |||
| Salford | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Sandwell | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Sefton | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Sheffield | Labour | No overall control | Details | ||
| Solihull | Conservative | No overall control | Details | ||
| South Tyneside | Labour | Labour hold | |||
| St Helens | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Stockport | Liberal Democrat | Liberal Democrat hold | Details | ||
| Sunderland | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Tameside | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Trafford | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
| Wakefield | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Walsall | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
| Wigan | Labour | Labour hold | |||
| Wirral | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
| Wolverhampton | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Read more about this topic: United Kingdom Local Elections, 2007
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“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)