Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

Basildon – Wickford Park

Reform UK (40.6 per cent, +40.6 on 2024) Conservatives (37.0 per cent, +6.1) Lib Dems (7.5 per cent, -6.8) Wickford Independents (6.4 per cent, -25.4) Labour (6.4 per cent, -16.4) Green Party (1.9 per cent, +1.9)

Reform UK gain from Wickford Independents

Chorley – Buckshaw & Whittle

Conservatives 576 (35.5 per cent, -6.3 on 2024) Reform UK 530 (32.7 per cent, +32.7) Labour 412 (25.4 per cent, -22.4) Green Party 103 (6.4 per cent,  -3.9)

Conservatives gain from Labour 

Edinburgh – Fountainbridge Craiglockhart

Labour 1,293 (20.8 per cent, -1.7 on 2022) Lib Dems 1,269 (20.4 per cent, +13.3) Green Party 1,133 (18.2 per cent, -1.7) SNP 905 (14.5 per cent, -8.2) Conservatives 857 (13.8 per cent, -12.8) Reform UK 489 (7.9 per cent, +7.9) Independent (0.6 per cent, +0.6) Independent 39 (0.6 per cent, +0.6) Scottish Family Party 34 (0.5 per cent, -0.2) Libertarian 25 (0.4 per cent, -0.1) Independent 25 (0.4 per cent, +0.4) Independent 9 (0.1 per cent, +0.1) Figures for first preferences

Lib Dems gain from Labour

Greenwich – Shooters Hill

Green Party 869 (34.6 per cent, +24.4 on 2025) Labour 756 (30.1 per cent, -27.7) Reform UK 402 (16.0 per cent, +6.1) Conservatives 288 (11.5 per cent, -1.7) Lib Dems 128 (5.1 per cent, -3.7) Independent 57 (2.3 per cent, +2.3) Independent 9 (0.4 per cent, +0.4)

Green Party gain from Labour 

Mid Devon – Crediton Lawrence 

Lib Dems 540 (64.9 per cent, +12.8 on 2023) Reform UK 226 (27.2 per cent, +27.2) Labour 66 (7.9 per cent, -18.3)

Lib Dems hold

Rossendale – Whitworth

Reform UK 733 (47.5 per cent, +47.5 on 2024) Conservatives 449 (29.1 per cent, +5.4) Labour 251 (16.3 per cent, -0.5) Green Party 110 (7.1 per cent, -1.7)

Reform UK gain from Community First 

Rother – Catsfield & Crowhurst

Lib Dems 267 (36.6 per cent, -11.9 on 2023) Reform UK 200 (27.4 per cent, +27.4) Conservatives 162 (22.2 per cent, -10.9) Labour 101 (13.8 per cent, -4.7)

Lib Dems hold

Sheffield – Stockbridge & Upper Don

Reform UK 1,789 (32.9 per cent, +32.9 on 2024) Lib Dems 1,595 (29.3 per cent, +12.1) Labour 1,324 (24.4 per cent, -25.2) Conservatives 332 (6.1 per cent, -21.6) Green Party 294 (5.4 per cent, -7.1) Yorkshire Party 58 (1.1 per cent, +1.1) Trade Unions and Socialist Coalition 43 (0.8 per cent, -1.2)

Reform UK gain from Labour 

South Staffordshire – Great Wyrley Landywood

Conservatives 358 (48.7 per cent, +9.1) Reform UK 292 (39.7 per cent, +39.7) Labour 55 (7.5 per cent, -30.3) Lib Dems 30 (4.1 per cent, +4.1)

Conservatives hold

Stevenage – Bedwell

Labour 506 (43.2 per cent, -2.5 on 2024) Reform UK 404 (34.5 per cent, +34.5) Conservatives 105 (9.0 per cent, -9.9) Green Party 79 (6.7 per cent, -7.8) Lib Dems 78 (6.7 per cent, -8.6)

Labour hold

Forthcoming contests

July 2nd

• North Tyneside – Killingworth. (Labour held)
• North Tyneside – Longbenton & Benton. (Labour held)

July 3rd

• Bath & North East Somerset – Mendip. (Lib Dem held)
• Durham – Benfieldside.  (Reform UK held)
• Gedling – Calverton. (Conservative held)
• Hammersmith & Fulham – Fulham Town. (Conservative held)
• Nottinghamshire – Newark West. (Reform UK held)
• Powys – Llanidloes. (Lib Dem held)
• Suffolk – Tower. (Conservative held)

July 10th

• Bassetlaw – Ranskill. (Conservative held)
• Hartlepool – Throston. (Labour held)
• Isle of Wight – Wroxall, Lowtherville & Bonchurch. (Independent held)
• Mole Valley – Bookham East & Eastwick Park. (Lib Dem held)
• Rotherham – Keppel. (Labour held)
• Surrey – Woking South. (Lib Dem held)
• Tewkesbury – Northway. (Independent held)
• Vale of White Horse – Botley & Sunningwell. (Lib Dem held)
• Wealden – Horam & Punnetts Town. (Green Party held)
• Woking – Hoe Valley. (Lib Dem held)

July 17th

• Basildon – St Martin’s. (Labour held)
• Dartford – Maypole & Leyton Cross. (Conservative held)
• Dartford – Stone House. (Conservative held)
• Denbighshire – Prestatyn Central. (Conservative held)
• Harborough – Market Harborough Logan. (Lib Dem held)
• Liverpool – Sefton Park. (Green Party held)
• Neath Port Talbot – Baglan. (Labour held)
• Rhondda Cynon Taf – Pontypridd Town. (Plaid Cymru held)
• Staffordshire – Eccleshall & Gnosall. (Reform UK held)

July 24th

• Bromley – Bromley Common & Holwood. (Conservative held)
• Cardiff – Llanrumney. (Labour held)
• Dacorum – Berkhamsted West.  (Lib Dem held)
• Dorset – Swanage. (Conservative held)
• Hertsmere – Borehamwood Brookmeadow. (Conservative held)
• Lichfield – Alrewas & Fradley. ( Conservative held)
• Rutland – Barleythorpe. (Green Party held)