3 May 2018 cohort
154 councils polled
2,748 ward races
4,417 seats elected
12.9% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 3 May 2018 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittlefield with Ightenhill Burnley | Dale Ferrier Conservative Party | 1 | 27.4% | 50.0% | −22.6 pts |
| Broadwaters Wyre Forest | Gareth Webster Labour Party | 1 | 27.5% | 50.0% | −22.5 pts |
| Culverden Tunbridge Wells | David Scott Conservative Party | 1 | 30.0% | 50.0% | −20.0 pts |
| Castle Colchester | Simon Crow Conservative Party | 1 | 30.7% | 50.0% | −19.3 pts |
| St Peters St Albans | Jacqui Taylor Liberal Democrats | 1 | 31.5% | 50.0% | −18.5 pts |
| Pittville Cheltenham | Jo Stafford Liberal Democrats | 1 | 31.7% | 50.0% | −18.3 pts |
| Earlswood and Whitebushes Reigate and Banstead | Hal Brown Green Party | 1 | 32.8% | 50.0% | −17.2 pts |
| Stonydelph Tamworth | Marie Bailey Conservative Party | 1 | 33.1% | 50.0% | −16.9 pts |
| Charles Dickens Portsmouth | Claire Udy Labour Party | 1 | 33.9% | 50.0% | −16.1 pts |
| Park Tunbridge Wells | Nick Pope TWellsA | 1 | 34.0% | 50.0% | −16.0 pts |
All councils that polled in 3 May 2018
154 councils.
- Adur · 14 races · 42.9% of seats below quota
- Amber Valley · 15 races · 53.3% of seats below quota
- Barking and Dagenham · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Barnet · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Barnsley · 21 races · 9.5% of seats below quota
- Basildon · 14 races · 26.7% of seats below quota
- Basingstoke and Deane · 20 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Bexley · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Birmingham · 69 races · 5.0% of seats below quota
- Blackburn with Darwen · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Bolton · 20 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Bradford · 30 races · 30.0% of seats below quota
- Brent · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Brentwood · 13 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Bromley · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Broxbourne · 10 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Burnley · 15 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Bury · 17 races · 23.5% of seats below quota
- Calderdale · 17 races · 35.3% of seats below quota
- Cambridge · 14 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- Camden · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cannock Chase · 13 races · 53.8% of seats below quota
- Carlisle · 17 races · 5.9% of seats below quota
- Castle Point · 14 races · 7.1% of seats below quota
- Cheltenham · 20 races · 38.1% of seats below quota
- Cherwell · 16 races · 29.4% of seats below quota
- Cheshire West and Chester · 1 race · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Chorley · 17 races · 5.9% of seats below quota
- Colchester · 17 races · 52.9% of seats below quota
- Coventry · 18 races · 22.2% of seats below quota
- Craven · 9 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Crawley · 12 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Croydon · 28 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Daventry · 13 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Derby · 17 races · 35.3% of seats below quota
- Dudley · 24 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- Ealing · 23 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Eastleigh · 14 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Elmbridge · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Enfield · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Epping Forest · 19 races · 9.5% of seats below quota
- Exeter · 13 races · 53.8% of seats below quota
- Fareham · 15 races · 12.5% of seats below quota
- Gateshead · 22 races · 4.3% of seats below quota
- Gosport · 17 races · 27.8% of seats below quota
- Great Yarmouth · 13 races · 7.1% of seats below quota
- Greenwich · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hackney · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Halton · 17 races · 5.6% of seats below quota
- Hammersmith and Fulham · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Haringey · 19 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Harlow · 11 races · 36.4% of seats below quota
- Harrogate · 40 races · 37.5% of seats below quota
- Harrow · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hart · 11 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Hartlepool · 11 races · 54.5% of seats below quota
- Hastings · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Havant · 14 races · 13.3% of seats below quota
- Havering · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hillingdon · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hounslow · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Huntingdonshire · 26 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hyndburn · 11 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Ipswich · 16 races · 6.3% of seats below quota
- Islington · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kensington and Chelsea · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kingston upon Hull · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kingston upon Thames · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kirklees · 23 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- Knowsley · 15 races · 6.7% of seats below quota
- Lambeth · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Leeds · 33 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Lewisham · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Lincoln · 11 races · 18.2% of seats below quota
- Liverpool · 30 races · 12.9% of seats below quota
- Maidstone · 18 races · 38.9% of seats below quota
- Manchester · 32 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Merton · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Milton Keynes · 19 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Mole Valley · 14 races · 21.4% of seats below quota
- Newcastle upon Tyne · 26 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Newcastle-under-Lyme · 21 races · 2.3% of seats below quota
- Newham · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- North East Lincolnshire · 15 races · 43.8% of seats below quota
- North Hertfordshire · 18 races · 36.8% of seats below quota
- North Tyneside · 20 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Norwich · 13 races · 38.5% of seats below quota
- Nuneaton and Bedworth · 17 races · 23.5% of seats below quota
- Oldham · 20 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Oxford · 24 races · 20.8% of seats below quota
- Pendle · 16 races · 18.8% of seats below quota
- Peterborough · 18 races · 61.1% of seats below quota
- Plymouth · 19 races · 21.1% of seats below quota
- Portsmouth · 14 races · 78.6% of seats below quota
- Preston · 19 races · 5.0% of seats below quota
- Reading · 15 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- Redbridge · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Redditch · 10 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Reigate and Banstead · 17 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Richmond upon Thames · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rochdale · 20 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Rochford · 13 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Rossendale · 12 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- Rugby · 14 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Runnymede · 14 races · 18.8% of seats below quota
- Rushmoor · 13 races · 21.4% of seats below quota
- Salford · 20 races · 15.0% of seats below quota
- Sandwell · 24 races · 7.7% of seats below quota
- Sefton · 22 races · 39.1% of seats below quota
- Sheffield · 28 races · 53.6% of seats below quota
- Slough · 14 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Solihull · 17 races · 23.5% of seats below quota
- South Cambridgeshire · 26 races · 11.1% of seats below quota
- South Lakeland · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- South Tyneside · 18 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- Southampton · 16 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Southend-on-Sea · 17 races · 58.8% of seats below quota
- Southwark · 23 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- St Albans · 20 races · 35.0% of seats below quota
- St Edmundsbury · 2 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- St Helens · 16 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Stevenage · 13 races · 46.2% of seats below quota
- Stockport · 21 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Sunderland · 25 races · 36.0% of seats below quota
- Sutton · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Swindon · 19 races · 42.1% of seats below quota
- Tameside · 19 races · 31.6% of seats below quota
- Tamworth · 10 races · 60.0% of seats below quota
- Tandridge · 14 races · 42.9% of seats below quota
- Three Rivers · 13 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Thurrock · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Tower Hamlets · 20 races · 15.6% of seats below quota
- Trafford · 21 races · 22.7% of seats below quota
- Tunbridge Wells · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Wakefield · 21 races · 19.0% of seats below quota
- Walsall · 20 races · 19.0% of seats below quota
- Waltham Forest · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Wandsworth · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Warwickshire · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Watford · 12 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- Welwyn Hatfield · 16 races · 36.8% of seats below quota
- West Lancashire · 18 races · 11.1% of seats below quota
- West Oxfordshire · 16 races · 23.5% of seats below quota
- Westminster · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Weymouth and Portland · 1 race · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Wigan · 25 races · 28.0% of seats below quota
- Winchester · 15 races · 20.0% of seats below quota
- Wirral · 22 races · 21.7% of seats below quota
- Woking · 10 races · 70.0% of seats below quota
- Wokingham · 18 races · 44.4% of seats below quota
- Wolverhampton · 20 races · 9.1% of seats below quota
- Worcester · 12 races · 38.5% of seats below quota
- Worthing · 13 races · 46.2% of seats below quota
- Wyre Forest · 11 races · 81.8% of seats below quota