4 May 2023 cohort
230 councils polled
4,797 ward races
8,031 seats elected
71.8% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 4 May 2023 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 | Under par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Ashford | Gambling, J. Green Party | 1 | 27.7% | 50.0% | +22.3 pts |
| Sudbury South East Babergh | Osborne, A. Independent | 1 | 28.3% | 50.0% | +21.7 pts |
| Castle Herefordshire | Highfield, R. Conservative and Unionist Party | 1 | 28.6% | 50.0% | +21.4 pts |
| Hockley & Ashingdon Rochford | Carter, M. Conservative and Unionist Party | 1 | 29.0% | 50.0% | +21.0 pts |
| Copmanthorpe York | Steward, C. Conservative and Unionist Party | 1 | 29.1% | 50.0% | +20.9 pts |
| Bobblestock Herefordshire | Owens, R. Liberal Democrats | 1 | 29.4% | 50.0% | +20.6 pts |
| College Herefordshire | Proctor, B. Liberal Democrats | 1 | 29.5% | 50.0% | +20.5 pts |
| Sleaford Westholme North Kesteven | Mear, A. LINCS IND | 1 | 29.5% | 50.0% | +20.5 pts |
| Bluehouse Tendring | Codling, J. Conservative and Unionist Party | 2 | 12.9% | 33.3% | +20.4 pts |
| Whitecross Herefordshire | Boulter, D. IOC | 1 | 29.8% | 50.0% | +20.2 pts |
All councils that polled in 4 May 2023
230 councils.
- Amber Valley · 18 races · 95.2% of seats below quota
- Arun · 23 races · 90.7% of seats below quota
- Ashfield · 23 races · 82.9% of seats below quota
- Ashford · 39 races · 59.6% of seats below quota
- Babergh · 24 races · 68.8% of seats below quota
- Barnsley · 21 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Basildon · 14 races · 42.9% of seats below quota
- Basingstoke & Deane · 18 races · 55.6% of seats below quota
- Bassetlaw · 25 races · 66.7% of seats below quota
- Bath & North East Somerset · 33 races · 88.1% of seats below quota
- Bedford · 28 races · 76.1% of seats below quota
- Blaby · 16 races · 79.4% of seats below quota
- Blackburn with Darwen · 17 races · 5.9% of seats below quota
- Blackpool · 21 races · 95.2% of seats below quota
- Bolsover · 17 races · 86.5% of seats below quota
- Bolton · 20 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Boston · 15 races · 83.3% of seats below quota
- Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole · 33 races · 93.4% of seats below quota
- Bracknell Forest · 15 races · 97.6% of seats below quota
- Bradford · 30 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Braintree · 26 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Breckland · 27 races · 73.5% of seats below quota
- Brentwood · 12 races · 8.3% of seats below quota
- Brighton & Hove · 23 races · 94.4% of seats below quota
- Broadland · 27 races · 89.4% of seats below quota
- Bromsgrove · 30 races · 29.0% of seats below quota
- Broxbourne · 10 races · 30.0% of seats below quota
- Broxtowe · 20 races · 86.4% of seats below quota
- Burnley · 15 races · 53.3% of seats below quota
- Bury · 17 races · 35.3% of seats below quota
- Calderdale · 17 races · 41.2% of seats below quota
- Cambridge · 14 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Cannock Chase · 15 races · 47.1% of seats below quota
- Canterbury · 21 races · 89.7% of seats below quota
- Castle Point · 14 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Central Bedfordshire · 31 races · 87.3% of seats below quota
- Charnwood · 24 races · 90.4% of seats below quota
- Chelmsford · 24 races · 93.0% of seats below quota
- Cherwell · 16 races · 56.3% of seats below quota
- Cheshire East · 52 races · 74.4% of seats below quota
- Cheshire West & Chester · 45 races · 67.1% of seats below quota
- Chesterfield · 16 races · 92.5% of seats below quota
- Chichester · 21 races · 72.2% of seats below quota
- Chorley · 14 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Colchester · 17 races · 29.4% of seats below quota
- Cotswold · 32 races · 11.8% of seats below quota
- Coventry · 18 races · 44.4% of seats below quota
- Crawley · 12 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- Dacorum · 25 races · 86.3% of seats below quota
- Darlington · 20 races · 98.0% of seats below quota
- Dartford · 20 races · 71.4% of seats below quota
- Derby · 18 races · 96.1% of seats below quota
- Derbyshire Dales · 21 races · 44.1% of seats below quota
- Dover · 17 races · 93.8% of seats below quota
- Dudley · 24 races · 32.0% of seats below quota
- East Cambridgeshire · 14 races · 89.3% of seats below quota
- East Devon · 30 races · 63.3% of seats below quota
- East Hampshire · 31 races · 62.8% of seats below quota
- East Hertfordshire · 26 races · 88.0% of seats below quota
- East Lindsey · 29 races · 61.9% of seats below quota
- East Riding Of Yorkshire · 26 races · 97.0% of seats below quota
- East Staffordshire · 16 races · 86.5% of seats below quota
- East Suffolk · 29 races · 81.8% of seats below quota
- Eastbourne · 9 races · 96.3% of seats below quota
- Eastleigh · 13 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Elmbridge · 16 races · 37.5% of seats below quota
- Epping Forest · 18 races · 27.8% of seats below quota
- Epsom & Ewell · 14 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Erewash · 19 races · 97.9% of seats below quota
- Exeter · 13 races · 46.2% of seats below quota
- Fenland · 18 races · 79.1% of seats below quota
- Folkestone & Hythe · 13 races · 93.3% of seats below quota
- Forest Of Dean · 21 races · 73.7% of seats below quota
- Fylde · 17 races · 91.9% of seats below quota
- Gateshead · 22 races · 9.1% of seats below quota
- Gedling · 19 races · 80.5% of seats below quota
- Gravesham · 17 races · 79.5% of seats below quota
- Great Yarmouth · 17 races · 94.9% of seats below quota
- Guildford · 21 races · 95.8% of seats below quota
- Halton · 18 races · 5.6% of seats below quota
- Harborough · 19 races · 85.3% of seats below quota
- Harlow · 11 races · 45.5% of seats below quota
- Hart · 11 races · 36.4% of seats below quota
- Hartlepool · 12 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Havant · 10 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- Herefordshire · 53 races · 75.5% of seats below quota
- Hertsmere · 16 races · 89.7% of seats below quota
- High Peak · 28 races · 74.4% of seats below quota
- Hinckley & Bosworth · 16 races · 82.4% of seats below quota
- Horsham · 22 races · 95.8% of seats below quota
- Hyndburn · 12 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- Ipswich · 16 races · 56.3% of seats below quota
- Kings Lynn & West Norfolk · 34 races · 64.8% of seats below quota
- Kingston Upon Hull · 19 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Kirklees · 23 races · 45.8% of seats below quota
- Knowsley · 15 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Lancaster · 27 races · 96.7% of seats below quota
- Leeds · 33 races · 42.4% of seats below quota
- Leicester · 21 races · 96.3% of seats below quota
- Lewes · 21 races · 90.2% of seats below quota
- Lichfield · 21 races · 82.6% of seats below quota
- Lincoln · 11 races · 18.2% of seats below quota
- Liverpool · 64 races · 35.3% of seats below quota
- Luton · 19 races · 75.6% of seats below quota
- Maidstone · 18 races · 55.6% of seats below quota
- Maldon · 16 races · 63.3% of seats below quota
- Malvern Hills · 18 races · 45.2% of seats below quota
- Manchester · 32 races · 15.2% of seats below quota
- Mansfield · 36 races · 52.8% of seats below quota
- Medway · 24 races · 96.6% of seats below quota
- Melton · 16 races · 67.9% of seats below quota
- Mid Devon · 22 races · 81.0% of seats below quota
- Mid Suffolk · 26 races · 17.6% of seats below quota
- Mid Sussex · 27 races · 83.3% of seats below quota
- Middlesbrough · 20 races · 82.6% of seats below quota
- Milton Keynes · 19 races · 65.0% of seats below quota
- Mole Valley · 13 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- New Forest · 26 races · 93.8% of seats below quota
- Newark & Sherwood · 21 races · 74.4% of seats below quota
- Newcastle Upon Tyne · 26 races · 48.1% of seats below quota
- North Devon · 24 races · 70.7% of seats below quota
- North East Derbyshire · 24 races · 86.8% of seats below quota
- North East Lincolnshire · 15 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- North Hertfordshire · 16 races · 43.8% of seats below quota
- North Kesteven · 21 races · 64.9% of seats below quota
- North Lincolnshire · 19 races · 69.8% of seats below quota
- North Norfolk · 32 races · 65.0% of seats below quota
- North Somerset · 35 races · 70.0% of seats below quota
- North Tyneside · 20 races · 19.0% of seats below quota
- North Warwickshire · 17 races · 77.1% of seats below quota
- North West Leicestershire · 38 races · 44.7% of seats below quota
- Norwich · 13 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Nottingham · 20 races · 74.5% of seats below quota
- Oadby & Wigston · 10 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Oldham · 20 races · 91.7% of seats below quota
- Pendle · 11 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Peterborough · 20 races · 66.7% of seats below quota
- Plymouth · 19 races · 52.6% of seats below quota
- Portsmouth · 14 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Preston · 16 races · 35.3% of seats below quota
- Reading · 16 races · 41.2% of seats below quota
- Redcar & Cleveland · 24 races · 91.5% of seats below quota
- Redditch · 10 races · 60.0% of seats below quota
- Reigate & Banstead · 15 races · 53.3% of seats below quota
- Ribble Valley · 23 races · 69.4% of seats below quota
- Rochdale · 20 races · 20.0% of seats below quota
- Rochford · 13 races · 38.5% of seats below quota
- Rossendale · 12 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Rother · 21 races · 71.1% of seats below quota
- Rugby · 14 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Runnymede · 14 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Rushcliffe · 24 races · 79.5% of seats below quota
- Rushmoor · 13 races · 53.8% of seats below quota
- Rutland · 13 races · 32.0% of seats below quota
- Salford · 20 races · 23.8% of seats below quota
- Sandwell · 24 races · 29.2% of seats below quota
- Sefton · 22 races · 36.4% of seats below quota
- Sevenoaks · 26 races · 75.9% of seats below quota
- Sheffield · 28 races · 48.3% of seats below quota
- Slough · 21 races · 92.9% of seats below quota
- Solihull · 17 races · 23.5% of seats below quota
- South Derbyshire · 15 races · 88.9% of seats below quota
- South Gloucestershire · 28 races · 91.8% of seats below quota
- South Hams · 20 races · 54.8% of seats below quota
- South Holland · 18 races · 54.1% of seats below quota
- South Kesteven · 26 races · 67.3% of seats below quota
- South Norfolk · 26 races · 87.0% of seats below quota
- South Oxfordshire · 21 races · 66.7% of seats below quota
- South Ribble · 23 races · 70.0% of seats below quota
- South Staffordshire · 20 races · 81.0% of seats below quota
- South Tyneside · 18 races · 38.9% of seats below quota
- Southampton · 17 races · 98.0% of seats below quota
- Southend On Sea · 17 races · 52.9% of seats below quota
- Spelthorne · 13 races · 94.9% of seats below quota
- St Albans · 18 races · 38.9% of seats below quota
- Stafford · 23 races · 80.0% of seats below quota
- Staffordshire Moorlands · 26 races · 69.1% of seats below quota
- Stevenage · 13 races · 61.5% of seats below quota
- Stockport · 21 races · 90.5% of seats below quota
- Stockton-on-Tees · 27 races · 80.4% of seats below quota
- Stoke On Trent · 34 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Stratford On Avon · 39 races · 41.5% of seats below quota
- Sunderland · 25 races · 32.0% of seats below quota
- Surrey Heath · 14 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Swale · 24 races · 83.0% of seats below quota
- Swindon · 19 races · 36.8% of seats below quota
- Tameside · 19 races · 77.2% of seats below quota
- Tamworth · 10 races · 70.0% of seats below quota
- Tandridge · 14 races · 35.7% of seats below quota
- Teignbridge · 24 races · 85.1% of seats below quota
- Telford & Wrekin · 32 races · 59.3% of seats below quota
- Tendring · 32 races · 81.3% of seats below quota
- Test Valley · 20 races · 76.7% of seats below quota
- Tewkesbury · 20 races · 71.1% of seats below quota
- Thanet · 23 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Three Rivers · 13 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Thurrock · 16 races · 62.5% of seats below quota
- Tonbridge & Malling · 19 races · 77.3% of seats below quota
- Torbay · 16 races · 97.2% of seats below quota
- Torridge · 16 races · 83.3% of seats below quota
- Trafford · 21 races · 90.5% of seats below quota
- Tunbridge Wells · 16 races · 68.8% of seats below quota
- Uttlesford · 22 races · 79.5% of seats below quota
- Vale Of White Horse · 24 races · 57.9% of seats below quota
- Wakefield · 21 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Walsall · 20 races · 30.0% of seats below quota
- Warwick · 17 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Watford · 12 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Waverley · 24 races · 70.0% of seats below quota
- Wealden · 40 races · 40.9% of seats below quota
- Welwyn Hatfield · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- West Berkshire · 24 races · 72.1% of seats below quota
- West Devon · 17 races · 56.7% of seats below quota
- West Lancashire · 15 races · 73.3% of seats below quota
- West Lindsey · 19 races · 68.6% of seats below quota
- West Oxfordshire · 16 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- West Suffolk · 39 races · 63.3% of seats below quota
- Wigan · 25 races · 76.0% of seats below quota
- Winchester · 16 races · 12.5% of seats below quota
- Windsor & Maidenhead · 19 races · 61.0% of seats below quota
- Wirral · 22 races · 98.5% of seats below quota
- Woking · 10 races · 20.0% of seats below quota
- Wokingham · 18 races · 44.4% of seats below quota
- Wolverhampton · 20 races · 88.3% of seats below quota
- Worcester · 11 races · 45.5% of seats below quota
- Worthing · 11 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Wychavon · 27 races · 60.5% of seats below quota
- Wyre · 24 races · 72.0% of seats below quota
- Wyre Forest · 12 races · 97.0% of seats below quota
- York · 21 races · 89.4% of seats below quota