Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests

Barnet – Hendon 

Conservatives 1,656 (46.8 per cent, -2.5 on 2022) Reform UK 1,069 (30.2 per cent, +30.2) Labour 423 (12.0 per cent, -14.8) Green Party 201 (5.7 per cent, -2.4) Lib Dems 107 (3.0 per cent, -2.2) Rejoin EU 81 (2.3 per cent, +2.3)

Conservatives hold

Stevenage – Roebuck

Reform UK 513 (39.2 per cent, +39.2 on 2024) Labour 353 (26.9 per cent, -12.4) Conservatives 157 (12.0 per cent, -11.4) Lib Dems 148 (11.3 per cent, -5.5) Green Party 139 (10.6 per cent, -4.9)

Reform UK gain from Labour 

Stirling – Stirling East

SNP 808 (38.8 per cent, +4.3 on 2024) Labour 530 (25.5 per cent, -0.0) Reform UK 517 (24.8 per cent, +10.8) Conservatives 147 (7.1 per cent, -5.2) Green Party 141 (6.3 per cent, +1.3) Lib Dems 79 (3.8 per cent, +0.9) Figures for first preferences.

SNP gain from Conservatives 

Thanet – Garlinge

Reform UK 348 (44.6 per cent, +44.6 on 2023) Conservatives 250 (32.0 per cent, +10.6) Labour 62 (7.9 per cent, -12.3) Green Party 61 (7.8 per cent, -1.3) Lib Dems (4.6 per cent, +4.6) Independent (3.1 per cent, +3.1)

Reform UK gain from Thanet Independent 

Tunbridge Wells – St Johns

Lib Dems 629 (53.3 per cent, +2.1 on 2025) Reform UK 177 (15.0 per cent, -1.2) Green Party 160 (13.5 per cent, +6.3) Tunbridge Wells Alliance 105 (8.9 per cent, +4.8) Conservatives 90 (7.6 per cent, -3.6) Independents for Tunbridge Wells 20 (1.7 per cent, -0.1)

Lib Dems hold

Worcestershire – Bromsgrove South

Lib Dems 1,416 (51.9 per cent, +20.3 on May) Reform UK 911 (33.4 per cent, -1.5) Conservatives 309 (11.3 per cent, -5.8) Labour 92 (3.4 per cent, -4.1)

Lib Dems gain from Reform UK 

Forthcoming contests

November 4th

• Burnley – Lanehead. (Labour held)
• Burnley – Queensgate. Labour held)

November 6th

• Fife – Buckhaven, Methil & Wemyss Villages. (Labour held)
• Harborough – Fleckney. (Conservative held)
• Newark & Sherwood – Balderton North & Coddington. (Green Party held)
• Newark & Sherwood – Castle. (Independent held)
• South Derbyshire – Seales. (Labour held)
• Tandridge – Westway. (Conservative held)
• Tandridge – Lingfield, Crowhurst & Tandridge. (Lingfield & Crowhurst Residents held)
• West Devon – Okehampton South. (Green Party held)

November 13th

• Canterbury – Wincheap. (Lib Dem held)
• East Lindsey – Chapel St Leonards. (Conservative held)
• Gwynedd – Bethel a’r Felinheli. (Plaid Cymru held)
• North Somerset – Long Ashton. (Green Party held)
• Vale of White Horse – Ridgeway. (Lib Dem held)

November 20th

• Cheshire East – Macclesfield Central. (Labour held)
• Dumfries & Galloway – Stanraer & The Rhins. (Independent held)
• East Sussex – Ashdown & Conquest. (Conservative held)
• Redcar & Cleveland – South Bank. (Labour held)
• Stratford-on-Avon – Quinton. (Lib Dem held)
• Stratford-on-Avon – Salford Priors & Alcester Rural. (Conservative held)
• Trafford – Hale. (Green Party held)

November 27th

• King’s Lynn & West Norfolk – Hunstanton. (Independent held)
• Pendle – Barnoldswick. (Lib Dem held)
• Sunderland – Hetton. (Labour held)

December 2nd

• Derbyshire – Long Eaton North. (Reform UK held)

December 4th

• Broxtowe – Stapleford South East. (Labour held)
• East Devon – Exmouth Halsdon. (Lib Dem held)
• Middlesbrough – Nunthorpe. (Lib Dem held)
• Torridge – Winkleigh. (Conservative held)
• Watford – Tudor. (Lib Dem held)

December 11th

• Darlington – Red Hall & Lingfield. (Labour held
• Highland – Fort William & Ardnamurchan. (SNP held)
• South Kesteven – Aveland. (Conservative held)
• South Kesteven – Belmont.  (Grantham Independent held)
• West Lothian – Whitburn & Blackburn. (Labour held)

January 22nd

• Fife – Glenrothes West & Kinglassie. (SNP held)