Buckinghamshire
Every election cycle we have data for, most recent first.
Cycles
- 2025 49 races · 97 seats 30.9% below quota
- 2021 49 races · 147 seats 0.0% below quota
- 2017 49 races · 49 seats 28.6% below quota
Council composition as of 2025
97 councillors, by party. One square per seat. Source: opencouncildata annual snapshot — reflects the council at the end of 2025 (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Hover any seat for the party.
Most recent election (2025)
In 2025, 97 seats were up across 49 wards. The table below shows what each party actually won — alongside what they would have won if the 97 seats had been shared in proportion to votes received (how, with caveats). The Δ column is the actual seat count minus the proportional seat count — positive numbers are parties First-Past-the-Post over-represented; negative are parties it under-represented.
| Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats won | % of seats | Proportional seats | Proportional % | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 96,936 | 31.4% | 48 | 49.5% | 31 | 32.0% | +17 |
| Liberal Democrats | 81,482 | 26.4% | 27 | 27.8% | 26 | 26.8% | +1 |
| Reform UK | 60,652 | 19.7% | 3 | 3.1% | 20 | 20.6% | -17 |
| Labour Party | 29,602 | 9.6% | 4 | 4.1% | 9 | 9.3% | -5 |
| Independent | 27,175 | 8.8% | 11 | 11.3% | 8 | 8.2% | +3 |
| Green Party | 10,057 | 3.3% | 2 | 2.1% | 3 | 3.1% | -1 |
| Wycombe Independents | 2,326 | 0.8% | 2 | 2.1% | 0 | 0.0% | +2 |
| Social Democratic Party | 273 | 0.1% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 40 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Heritage Party | 27 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Total | 308,570 | 100.0% | 97 | 100.0% | 97 | 100.0% | 0 |
Vote share vs seats won
The top bar is each party's share of votes cast in this council. Below, one square per seat, coloured by the party that won it — first the actual First-Past-the-Post result, then what a proportional method would have produced from the same vote totals. Divergence between the bar and the actual grid is the indictment of the method.
Full ward-by-ward results for 2025 →
Composition history
One row per opencouncildata annual snapshot — the council at the end of each year (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Newest first; hover any seat for the party.
Ward by ward
Each row is a ward, each column a cycle. Each cell shows the top-of-poll candidate's party (swatch) and their share of valid ballots. Wards are matched by name across cycles — boundary reviews can mean a ward of the same name is a slightly different area in a later cycle.
| Ward | 2017 | 2021 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey | 51% | 53% | 43% |
| Amersham and Chesham Bois | 59% | 42% | 48% |
| Aston Clinton and Bierton | 60% | 55% | |
| Aston Clinton and Weston Turville | 36% | ||
| Aylesbury East | 44% | 52% | 35% |
| Aylesbury North | 41% | 45% | 41% |
| Aylesbury North West | 45% | 49% | |
| Aylesbury North-West | 30% | ||
| Aylesbury South East | 53% | 30% | |
| Aylesbury South West | 49% | 40% | |
| Aylesbury South-East | 53% | ||
| Aylesbury South-West | 35% | ||
| Aylesbury West | 56% | 58% | 27% |
| Beaconsfield | 70% | 59% | 39% |
| Bernwood | 47% | 46% | |
| Berryfields, Buckingham Park and Watermead | 28% | ||
| Bierton, Kingsbrook and Wing | 28% | ||
| Booker and Cressex | 35% | ||
| Booker, Cressex and Castlefield | 45% | ||
| Booker/ Cressex and Castlefield | 53% | ||
| Buckingham | 45% | ||
| Buckingham East | 56% | 54% | |
| Buckingham West | 50% | 55% | |
| Burnham | 38% | ||
| Castlefield and Oakridge | 50% | ||
| Chalfont St Giles | 61% | 51% | |
| Chalfont St Giles and Little Chalfont | 44% | ||
| Chalfont St Peter | 70% | 69% | 32% |
| Chesham | 56% | 45% | |
| Chesham North | 50% | ||
| Chesham South | 48% | ||
| Chess Valley | 52% | 44% | |
| Chiltern Ridges | 50% | 46% | |
| Chiltern Villages | 75% | 74% | 48% |
| Cliveden | 54% | 68% | |
| Denham | 58% | 61% | |
| Disraeli | 42% | ||
| Downley | 51% | 50% | 38% |
| Farnham Common and Burnham Beeches | 66% | 59% | |
| Farnhams and Stoke Poges | 47% | ||
| Flackwell Heath and the Wooburns | 55% | ||
| Flackwell Heath, Little Marlow and Marlow South-East | 67% | ||
| Flackwell Heath/ Little Marlow and Marlow South East | 67% | ||
| Gerrards Cross | 57% | 73% | |
| Gerrards Cross and Denham | 41% | ||
| Great Brickhill | 63% | 52% | |
| Great Missenden | 63% | 60% | |
| Grendon Underwood | 65% | 65% | |
| Grendon Underwood and the Claydons | 45% | ||
| Haddenham and Stone | 45% | ||
| Hazlemere | 68% | 67% | 49% |
| Horwood | 35% | ||
| Iver | 62% | 65% | 30% |
| Ivinghoe | 48% | 55% | 34% |
| Little Chalfont and Amersham Common | 60% | 57% | |
| Long Crendon | 37% | ||
| Marlow | 64% | 57% | 38% |
| Marsh and Micklefield | 38% | ||
| Newton Longville | 35% | ||
| Penn Wood and Old Amersham | 70% | 66% | |
| Penn, Tylers Green and Loudwater | 41% | ||
| Princes Risborough | 36% | ||
| Quainton | 42% | ||
| Ridgeway East | 69% | 74% | 47% |
| Ridgeway West | 69% | 66% | 41% |
| Ryemead and Micklefield | 43% | 41% | |
| Sands | 43% | ||
| Stoke Poges and Wexham | 68% | 68% | |
| Stone and Waddesdon | 62% | 55% | |
| Terriers and Amersham Hill | 50% | 42% | 26% |
| The Missendens | 34% | ||
| The Risboroughs | 55% | 57% | |
| The Wooburns, Bourne End and Hedsor | 48% | ||
| The Wooburns/ Bourne End and Hedsor | 58% | ||
| Totteridge and Bowerdean | 40% | 40% | 42% |
| Tylers Green and Loudwater | 61% | 54% | |
| Waddesdon | 44% | ||
| Wendover, Halton and Stoke Mandeville | 56% | 36% | |
| Wendover/ Halton and Stoke Mandeville | 52% | ||
| West Wycombe | 51% | 44% | |
| West Wycombe and Lane End | 52% | ||
| Wing | 44% | 50% | |
| Winslow | 46% | 53% | 32% |