At least fourteen 18- to 20-year-olds are known to have stood as candidates for council seats[1] and as a result William Lloyd became the youngest person to be elected to official office in Britain.

His party only finished in second place with a narrow lead over the third-placed Liberal Democrats, whose leader Menzies Campbell would also resign later in the year, while it was a strong showing for the Conservatives under David Cameron.

The final results are summarised below; firstly, with a table ranked by the party with the greatest number of councillors elected.

[4] The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections.

[5] A Newsnight poll by the analysts Rallings and Thrasher some days before the election predicted the following results for the English council elections: Con 38% (Conservatives gaining 330 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006) Lab 24% (Labour losing 500 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006) LD 29% (Liberal Democrats gaining 110 seats and gaining 2% of the vote on 2006) However, these predictions, as in 2006, were largely inaccurate, underestimating Conservative support and grossly overestimating the Lib Dems' performance.