2 May 2024 cohort
107 councils polled
1,903 ward races
2,659 seats elected
23.8% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 2 May 2024 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawkwell East Rochford | Webb, M. Independent | 1 | 25.8% | 50.0% | −24.2 pts |
| Baird Hastings | Smith, Y. Green Party | 1 | 29.0% | 50.0% | −21.0 pts |
| Hampton Vale Peterborough | Antunes, R. PETE FIRST | 1 | 29.8% | 50.0% | −20.2 pts |
| Hulton Bolton | Khan, F. Labour Party | 1 | 29.9% | 50.0% | −20.1 pts |
| Roche North and Rural Rochford | Shaw, P. Conservative Party | 1 | 30.5% | 50.0% | −19.5 pts |
| Orton Longueville Peterborough | Ali, I. Green Party | 1 | 30.8% | 50.0% | −19.2 pts |
| St Helens Hastings | Whitehill, D. Labour Party | 1 | 30.9% | 50.0% | −19.1 pts |
| Eastney and Craneswater Portsmouth | Dorrington, N. Liberal Democrats | 1 | 31.1% | 50.0% | −18.9 pts |
| Witney North West Oxfordshire | Prosser, A. Green Party | 1 | 31.3% | 50.0% | −18.7 pts |
| Elland Calderdale | Hunt, P. Conservative Party | 1 | 31.4% | 50.0% | −18.6 pts |
All councils that polled in 2 May 2024
107 councils.
- Adur · 14 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Barnsley · 21 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Basildon · 14 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Basingstoke and Deane · 18 races · 55.6% of seats below quota
- Blackburn with Darwen · 17 races · 29.4% of seats below quota
- Bolton · 20 races · 90.5% of seats below quota
- Bradford · 30 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Brentwood · 13 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Bristol, City of · 34 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Broxbourne · 10 races · 30.0% of seats below quota
- Burnley · 15 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- Bury · 17 races · 52.9% of seats below quota
- Calderdale · 17 races · 41.2% of seats below quota
- Cambridge · 14 races · 71.4% of seats below quota
- Cannock Chase · 12 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Castle Point · 13 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cheltenham · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cherwell · 16 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Chorley · 14 races · 21.4% of seats below quota
- Colchester · 17 races · 38.9% of seats below quota
- Coventry · 18 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Crawley · 12 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- Dorset · 52 races · 11.0% of seats below quota
- Dudley · 24 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Eastleigh · 12 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Elmbridge · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Epping Forest · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Exeter · 13 races · 84.6% of seats below quota
- Fareham · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Gateshead · 22 races · 22.7% of seats below quota
- Gloucester · 18 races · 7.7% of seats below quota
- Gosport · 14 races · 60.0% of seats below quota
- Halton · 18 races · 5.6% of seats below quota
- Harlow · 11 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hart · 11 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Hartlepool · 12 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Hastings · 16 races · 56.3% of seats below quota
- Havant · 12 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hyndburn · 12 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Ipswich · 16 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Kingston Upon Hull, City of · 19 races · 15.8% of seats below quota
- Kirklees · 23 races · 69.6% of seats below quota
- Knowsley · 15 races · 6.7% of seats below quota
- Leeds · 33 races · 45.5% of seats below quota
- Lincoln · 11 races · 54.5% of seats below quota
- Maidstone · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Manchester · 32 races · 21.2% of seats below quota
- Milton Keynes · 19 races · 63.2% of seats below quota
- Mole Valley · 13 races · 21.4% of seats below quota
- Newcastle Upon Tyne · 26 races · 44.4% of seats below quota
- North East Lincolnshire · 12 races · 41.7% of seats below quota
- North Hertfordshire · 25 races · 3.9% of seats below quota
- North Tyneside · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Norwich · 13 races · 38.5% of seats below quota
- Nuneaton and Bedworth · 19 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Oldham · 20 races · 65.0% of seats below quota
- Oxford · 24 races · 64.0% of seats below quota
- Pendle · 12 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Peterborough · 22 races · 78.3% of seats below quota
- Plymouth · 19 races · 57.9% of seats below quota
- Portsmouth · 14 races · 71.4% of seats below quota
- Preston · 16 races · 43.8% of seats below quota
- Reading · 16 races · 31.3% of seats below quota
- Redditch · 9 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Reigate and Banstead · 15 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Rochdale · 20 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- Rochford · 13 races · 53.8% of seats below quota
- Rossendale · 10 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rotherham · 25 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rugby · 14 races · 71.4% of seats below quota
- Runnymede · 13 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Rushmoor · 13 races · 61.5% of seats below quota
- Salford · 20 races · 9.5% of seats below quota
- Sandwell · 24 races · 25.0% of seats below quota
- Sefton · 22 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Sheffield · 28 races · 48.3% of seats below quota
- Solihull · 17 races · 29.4% of seats below quota
- South Tyneside · 18 races · 50.0% of seats below quota
- Southampton · 17 races · 88.2% of seats below quota
- Southend-On-Sea · 17 races · 52.9% of seats below quota
- St Albans · 18 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Stevenage · 13 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Stockport · 21 races · 42.9% of seats below quota
- Stroud · 27 races · 5.9% of seats below quota
- Sunderland · 25 races · 40.0% of seats below quota
- Swindon · 19 races · 30.0% of seats below quota
- Tameside · 19 races · 36.8% of seats below quota
- Tamworth · 10 races · 60.0% of seats below quota
- Tandridge · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Three Rivers · 13 races · 30.8% of seats below quota
- Thurrock · 17 races · 41.2% of seats below quota
- Trafford · 21 races · 28.6% of seats below quota
- Tunbridge Wells · 14 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Wakefield · 21 races · 18.2% of seats below quota
- Walsall · 20 races · 65.0% of seats below quota
- Warrington · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Watford · 12 races · 58.3% of seats below quota
- Welwyn Hatfield · 16 races · 81.3% of seats below quota
- West Lancashire · 15 races · 37.5% of seats below quota
- West Oxfordshire · 17 races · 58.8% of seats below quota
- Wigan · 25 races · 28.0% of seats below quota
- Winchester · 14 races · 35.7% of seats below quota
- Woking · 10 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Wokingham · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Wolverhampton · 20 races · 15.0% of seats below quota
- Worcester · 16 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Worthing · 13 races · 38.5% of seats below quota