1 May 2025 cohort
23 councils polled
1,400 ward races
1,640 seats elected
65.1% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 1 May 2025 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truro Moresk and Trehaverne Cornwall | Steven Mark Webb Liberal Democrats | 1 | 18.9% | 50.0% | −31.1 pts |
| St Ives South and Needingworth Cambridgeshire | Alex Bulat Labour Party | 1 | 23.2% | 50.0% | −26.8 pts |
| Constantine, Mabe and Mawnan Cornwall | Anna Thomason-Kenyon Reform UK | 1 | 23.4% | 50.0% | −26.6 pts |
| Amble West with Warkworth Northumberland | Pauline Davidson Reform UK | 1 | 23.8% | 50.0% | −26.2 pts |
| North Belper Derbyshire | Emma Louise Monkman Labour Party | 1 | 23.9% | 50.0% | −26.1 pts |
| Market Harborough West and Foxton Leicestershire | David John Page Conservative Party | 1 | 24.9% | 50.0% | −25.1 pts |
| Ipplepen and the Kerswells Devon | Heather Maureen Horner Reform UK | 1 | 25.2% | 50.0% | −24.8 pts |
| Saltash Trematon and Landrake Cornwall | Paul Anthony Cador Reform UK | 1 | 25.4% | 50.0% | −24.6 pts |
| Dursley Gloucestershire | Richard Dean Green Party | 1 | 25.9% | 50.0% | −24.1 pts |
| Heavitree and Whipton Barton Devon | Jack Stanley Eade Green Party | 1 | 26.2% | 50.0% | −23.8 pts |
All councils that polled in 1 May 2025
23 councils.
- Buckinghamshire · 49 races · 30.9% of seats below quota
- Cambridgeshire · 59 races · 90.2% of seats below quota
- Cornwall · 87 races · 85.1% of seats below quota
- Derbyshire · 64 races · 78.1% of seats below quota
- Devon · 58 races · 91.7% of seats below quota
- Doncaster · 21 races · 7.3% of seats below quota
- Durham · 51 races · 12.2% of seats below quota
- Gloucestershire · 55 races · 87.3% of seats below quota
- Hertfordshire · 78 races · 88.5% of seats below quota
- Kent · 72 races · 75.3% of seats below quota
- Lancashire · 81 races · 84.3% of seats below quota
- Leicestershire · 53 races · 92.7% of seats below quota
- Lincolnshire · 70 races · 78.6% of seats below quota
- North Northamptonshire · 31 races · 14.7% of seats below quota
- Northumberland · 69 races · 73.9% of seats below quota
- Nottinghamshire · 56 races · 62.1% of seats below quota
- Oxfordshire · 69 races · 89.9% of seats below quota
- Shropshire · 72 races · 73.0% of seats below quota
- Staffordshire · 62 races · 74.2% of seats below quota
- Warwickshire · 57 races · 77.2% of seats below quota
- West Northamptonshire · 35 races · 30.3% of seats below quota
- Wiltshire · 98 races · 61.2% of seats below quota
- Worcestershire · 53 races · 73.7% of seats below quota