2008 Worcester City Council election

[1] After the election, the composition of the council was: Before the election the Conservatives ran the council as a minority administration,[3] and required one extra seat in order to win a majority.

[8] The results saw the council remain without any party having a majority with the Conservatives continuing to run the administration.

[9] They had come within 28 votes of winning in Arboretum ward but Labour's Joy Squires held the seat.

[10] The Green Party contested ten of the twelve seats, falling back slightly overall from 9.2 to 8.5% of the vote.

While it failed to win a seat, its best results were in the Rainbow Hill and Cathedral wards, where it scored 23.3 and 18.6% respectively.

Map of the results of the 2008 Worcester council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, independents in light grey and Liberal Democrats in yellow. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2008.