Thursday, 17 July 2025

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 17.07.25


Nine council seats were up for grabs on Thursday, with action taking place from east to west.

Labour were on the defence in two seats, losing one and holding the other.  In Basildon they lost to Reform who came from nowhere to win fairly comfortably, taking votes from all the other parties.  Labour held in Neath Port Talbot, despite a significant dip in their vote share.  Labour's vote share was down in all nine seats.

The Tories had a mixed week, losing two seats to Reform and gaining two elsewhere, including a Reform defence...

Reform had been defending their third seat in as many weeks, following several resignations within just days or weeks of being elected in May.  They have now lost all three, primarily because the electorate doesn't appreciate being asked to vote twice in a matter of months.  They tumbled to third place in Staffordshire, where the Tories sailed into first for an easy win.

NOTE:  The Denbighshire hold for the Conservatives was previously a multi-seat contest in which the Green Party won the first seat and the Tories second.

St Martin's, Basildon Borough Council

Ref: 1,057 (44.6%) New
Lab: 833 (35.1%) -3.2%
Con: 320 (13.5%) -7.1%
Grn: 82 (3.4%) -8.9%
LDm: 39 (1.6%) -7.8%
TUS: 26 (1.1%) -6.3%
SDP: 13 (0.5%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Maypole & Leyton Cross, Dartford Borough Council

Ref: 303 (53.7%) New
Con: 158 (28.0%) -40.7%
Lab: 71 (12.6%) -18.7%
Grn: 32 (5.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Stone House, Dartford Borough Council

Ref: 475 (45.2%) New
Lab: 299 (28.4%) -12.8%
Con: 190 (18.1%) -31.4%
Grn: 87 (8.3%) -1.0%

Ref GAIN from Con

Prestatyn Central, Denbighshire County Council

Con: 230 (21.7%) -1.8%
Ind: 223 (21.1%) New
Ref: 195 (18.4%) New
Pld: 152 (14.3%) New
Grn: 144 (13.6%) -35.4%
Lab: 95 (9.0%) -14.5%
LDm: 19 (1.8%) New

Con HOLD

Market Harborough-Logan, Harborough District Council

Con: 410 (31.3%) +4.1%
LDm: 355 (27.1%) -19.8%
Grn: 290 (22.2%) +14.5%
Ref: 190 (14.1%) New
Lab: 44 (3.4%) -9.1%
Ind: 10 (0.7%) -4.8%
CPB: 9 (0.6%) New

Con GAIN from LDm

Sefton Park, Liverpool City Council

Grn: 468 (49.8%) -7.0%
Lab: 211 (22.4%) -11.1%
LDm: 193 (20.5%) +15.4%
Ref: 54 (5.7%) New
Con: 14 (1.5%) -3.0%

Grn HOLD

Baglan, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

Lab: 708 (37.5%) -16.8%
Ind: 532 (28.2%) New
Ref: 447 (23.7%) New
Pld: 149 (7.9%) New
Con: 19 (1.0%) -14.1%
Grn: 18 (1.0%) New
LDm: 13 (0.7%) New

Lab HOLD

Pontypridd Town, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Pld: 540 (51.6%) -2.2%
Ref: 253 (24.2%) New
Lab: 203 (19.4%) -16.8%
Con: 27 (2.6%) -7.3%
Grn: 23 (2.2%) New

Pld HOLD

Eccleshall & Gnosall, Staffordshire County Council

Con: 1,689 (44.4%) +10.1%
Grn: 1,037 (27.3%) +8.2%
Ref: 938 (24.7%) -10.3%
Lab: 140 (3.7%) -3.9%

Con GAIN from Ref

Abbreviations

Ref = Reform UK
Lab = Labour
Con = Conservative
Grn = Green
LDm = Liberal Democrat
TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
SDP = Social Democratic Party
Pld = Plaid Cymru
CPB = Communist Party of Britain
Ind = Independents and residents' groups

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