4 May 2017 cohort
113 councils polled
3,013 ward races
3,600 seats elected
26.6% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 4 May 2017 are shaded by the share of their seats elected below the proportional quota — darker is worse. Councils not in this cohort are shown grey. Click a hex to drill in.
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One hex = one council. Geographic position is approximate (cartogram, not a literal map).
Ten seats furthest below the proportional quota in this cycle
| Ward / Council | Seat-holder (party, per public record) | Seats | Won at | Quota | Below quota Marginal winner's share minus the proportional quota for this race. Negative = below; positive = above. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camborne Trelowarren Cornwall | Jeff Collins Conservative Party | 1 | 21.5% | 50.0% | −28.5 pts |
| Milford: Central Pembrokeshire | Stephen Joseph Independent | 1 | 25.3% | 50.0% | −24.7 pts |
| Pembroke Dock: Central Pembrokeshire | Paul Dowson Independent | 1 | 26.0% | 50.0% | −24.0 pts |
| Westham East Weymouth and Portland | Mike Byatt Conservative Party | 1 | 27.7% | 50.0% | −22.3 pts |
| Ruabon Wrexham | Dana Davies Labour Party | 1 | 27.8% | 50.0% | −22.2 pts |
| Aberystwyth Rheidol Ceredigion | Mark Edwards Plaid Cymru | 1 | 27.9% | 50.0% | −22.1 pts |
| Smithfield Wrexham | Adrienne Jeorrett Labour Party | 1 | 28.2% | 50.0% | −21.8 pts |
| Pelenna Neath Port Talbot | Martin Ellis Independent | 1 | 28.4% | 50.0% | −21.6 pts |
| Berwick North Northumberland | Catherine Seymour Conservative Party | 1 | 28.7% | 50.0% | −21.3 pts |
| Burnley Central West Lancashire | Tony Martin Labour Party | 1 | 28.8% | 50.0% | −21.2 pts |
All councils that polled in 4 May 2017
113 councils.
- Birmingham · 2 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Blackburn with Darwen · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Blaenau Gwent · 16 races · 2.4% of seats below quota
- Bradford · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Breckland · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Bridgend · 39 races · 22.2% of seats below quota
- Buckinghamshire · 49 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Bury · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Caerphilly · 32 races · 1.4% of seats below quota
- Cambridge · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Cambridgeshire · 59 races · 52.5% of seats below quota
- Camden · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cardiff · 29 races · 5.3% of seats below quota
- Carlisle · 2 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Carmarthenshire · 54 races · 18.6% of seats below quota
- Central Bedfordshire · 2 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Ceredigion · 32 races · 11.8% of seats below quota
- Chelmsford · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Cheltenham · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Conwy · 32 races · 13.2% of seats below quota
- Cornwall · 122 races · 53.7% of seats below quota
- Craven · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Crawley · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cumbria · 84 races · 35.7% of seats below quota
- Dacorum · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Daventry · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Denbighshire · 26 races · 9.5% of seats below quota
- Derbyshire · 61 races · 42.2% of seats below quota
- Devon · 58 races · 45.0% of seats below quota
- Doncaster · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Dorset · 40 races · 30.4% of seats below quota
- Durham · 63 races · 6.3% of seats below quota
- East Sussex · 50 races · 26.0% of seats below quota
- Eastleigh · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Essex · 70 races · 34.7% of seats below quota
- Exeter · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Flintshire · 46 races · 12.5% of seats below quota
- Gloucestershire · 53 races · 39.6% of seats below quota
- Gwynedd · 50 races · 18.5% of seats below quota
- Hampshire · 76 races · 26.9% of seats below quota
- Hartlepool · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Havant · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hertfordshire · 78 races · 39.7% of seats below quota
- Huntingdonshire · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Ipswich · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Isle of Anglesey · 11 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Isle of Wight · 39 races · 42.5% of seats below quota
- Isles of Scilly · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kent · 72 races · 30.9% of seats below quota
- Lancashire · 82 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Leicestershire · 53 races · 23.6% of seats below quota
- Lincolnshire · 70 races · 38.6% of seats below quota
- Liverpool · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Maidstone · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Malvern Hills · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Manchester · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Mendip · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Merthyr Tydfil · 11 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Mid Suffolk · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Monmouthshire · 42 races · 39.5% of seats below quota
- Neath Port Talbot · 40 races · 13.3% of seats below quota
- Newark and Sherwood · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Newport · 20 races · 2.0% of seats below quota
- Norfolk · 84 races · 36.9% of seats below quota
- North Dorset · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- North Hertfordshire · 2 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- North Yorkshire · 66 races · 22.9% of seats below quota
- Northamptonshire · 57 races · 36.8% of seats below quota
- Northumberland · 66 races · 34.3% of seats below quota
- Nottingham · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Nottinghamshire · 56 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- Nuneaton and Bedworth · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Oxford · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Oxfordshire · 61 races · 34.9% of seats below quota
- Pembrokeshire · 47 races · 36.2% of seats below quota
- Powys · 56 races · 26.8% of seats below quota
- Preston · 2 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Reigate and Banstead · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · 52 races · 18.7% of seats below quota
- Rugby · 2 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Runnymede · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rushcliffe · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rushmoor · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Sedgemoor · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Sheffield · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Shropshire · 62 races · 9.6% of seats below quota
- Slough · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Somerset · 54 races · 49.1% of seats below quota
- South Cambridgeshire · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- South Lakeland · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Spelthorne · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Staffordshire · 60 races · 29.0% of seats below quota
- Stevenage · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Suffolk · 63 races · 32.0% of seats below quota
- Surrey · 81 races · 30.9% of seats below quota
- Swansea · 36 races · 13.9% of seats below quota
- Test Valley · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Torfaen · 24 races · 11.4% of seats below quota
- Trafford · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Vale of Glamorgan · 23 races · 2.1% of seats below quota
- Warwickshire · 57 races · 35.1% of seats below quota
- Watford · 3 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Welwyn Hatfield · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- West Devon · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- West Oxfordshire · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- West Sussex · 70 races · 42.9% of seats below quota
- Weymouth and Portland · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Wiltshire · 97 races · 30.9% of seats below quota
- Windsor and Maidenhead · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Wirral · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Worcestershire · 52 races · 38.6% of seats below quota
- Wrexham · 44 races · 30.6% of seats below quota
- Wyre Forest · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota