Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

Doncaster – Bentley 

Reform UK 1,062 (43.8 per cent, +4.2 on 2025) Labour 912 (37.6 per cent, +4.7) Independent 169 (7.0 per cent, +7.0) Conservatives 121 (5.0 per cent, -5.8) Green Party 79 (3.3 per cent, -5.6) Lib Dems 39 (1.6 per cent, -3.1) Trade Union and Socialist Coalition 29 (1.2 per cent, -2.0) Workers Party of Britain 15 (0.6 per cent, +0.6)

Reform UK hold

East Hampshire – Alton Amery 

Lib Dems 407 (54.9 per cent, +1.6 on 2023) Reform UK 189 (25.5 per cent, +25.5) Conservatives 145 (19.6 per cent, -9.9)

Lib Dems hold 

East Renfrewshire – Barrhead, Liboside & Uplawmoor

Labour 1,901 (41.9 per cent, +21.7 on 2022) SNP 1,142 (25.1 per cent, -8.3) Reform UK 1,018 (22.4 per cent, +22.4) Green Party 247 (5.4 per cent, +2.0) Conservatives 107 (4.6 per cent, -6.2) Aboish Holyrood 27 (0.6 per cent, +0.6). First preferences.  

Labour hold

Gwynedd – Abermaw

Independent 299 (49.6 per cent, +49.6 on 2022) Independent 161 (26.7 per cent, +26.7) Reform UK 107 (17.7 per cent, +17.7) Conservatives 20 (3.3 per cent, -5.1) Pirate Party 11 (1.8 per cent, +1.8) Lib Dems 5 (0.8 per cent, +0.8)

Independent gain from another independent 

Hounslow – Cranford

Labour 951 (40.7 per cent, -12.6 on 2022) Conservatives 679 (29.1 per cent, +10.0) Reform UK (17.3 per cent, +17.3) Green Party (6.7 per cent, -7.5) Lib Dems (6.2 per cent, +6.2)

Labour hold 

Runnymede – Addlestone South

Reform UK 467 and 414 (32.4 per cent, +32.4 on 2024) Lib Dems 356 and 352 (24.7 per cent, +15.5) Conservatives 329 and 273 (22.8 per cent, -33.1) Labour 146 and 129 (10.1 per cent, -18.1) Green Party 145 (10.0 per cent, +3.3)

Reform UK gain both seats from Conservatives 

Surrey – Addlestone

Reform UK 931 (34.2 per cent, +34.2 on 2021) Conservatives 659 (24.2 per cent, -25.9) Lib Dems 473 (17.4 per cent, +9.2) Green Party 441 (16.2 per cent, +1.9) Labour 222 (8.1 per cent, -10.9)

Reform UK gain from Conservatives 

Surrey – Hinchley Wood, Claygate & Oxshott

Lib Dems 1,656 (38.1 per cent, -6.2 on 2021) Conservatives 1,346 (31.0 per cent, -16.0) Independent 659 (15.2 per cent, +15.2) Reform UK 551 (12.7 per cent, +8.3) Green Party 101 (2.3 per cent, +2.3) Labour 31 (0.7 per cent, -3.6)

Lib Dems gain from Conservatives 

Forthcoming contests

August 28th

• Broxtowe – Nuthall East & Strelley.  (Conservative held)
• Camden – West Hampstead. (Labour held)

September 4th

• Luton – Stopsley. (Lib Dem held)

September 11th

• Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole – Talbot & Branksome. (Conservative held)
• Central Bedfordshire – Stotfold. (Labour held)
• Cheshire East – Wilmslow Lacey Green. (Independent held)
• Vale of Glamorgan – Illtyd. Labour held)
• Walsall – Pelsall. (Conservative held)
• West Suffolk – Newmarket East. (Labour held)

September 18th

• Brighton & Hove – Queen’s Park. (Labour held)
• Cardiff – Trowbridge. (Labour held)
• Newham – Plaistow South. (Labour held)
• Warwick – Kenilworth Park Hill. (Green Party held)
• Warwick – Leamington Clarendon. (Labour held)

September 25th

• Ashford – Rolvenden & Tenterden West. (Green Party held)
• Highland – Caol & Mallaig. (Green Party held)
• Highland – Tain & Easter Ross. (SNP held)