What Does 'No Party Majority' Mean?

[tiggerblue10]

Basically in my Borough Labour have lost the council election but its a 'no party majority'. What happens in these circumstances?

Apologies for being a bit Tim nice but dim!

[choux]

Wait for the alliances to form. A bit like a hung parliament and this link covers the consequences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_parliament#Consequences

[Buenchico]

'No party majority' is synonymous with 'no overall control' (which is probably the term that's used most often). It occurs where no party has more than 50% of the seats.

In some cases the party with the most seats runs the council as a 'minority administration' because the other parties can't find a way of getting together to form a larger group. In England, that's currently happening in six Labour-led councils, six Conservative-led councils and one LibDem-led council.

In other cases two or more different parties team up together, so that they've got more than 50% of the seats in total, to form a 'coalition administration'. There are currently three councils in England where Labour and the LibDems have formed such an alliance, one where Labour have teamed up with the Green party and one where they've partnered with Independent councillors. Conservatives have joined up with Independents to run three councils. Elsewhere in England, in one council, they've had to team up with both LibDems and Independents to gain an overall majority.

Information sourced from here:
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/no-overall-control-local-equivalent-hung-parliament-explained-election-3681445

[tiggerblue10]

So I guess Labour will still run the council then.

Cheers both