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Central Bedfordshire 2017

Local elections held 4 May 2017.

Each race compares the marginal winner's share of valid ballots to the proportional quota — the share they'd need under any common proportional method. How the numbers are derived →

If votes were counted by party

Across the 2 wards in this cycle, parties received the vote totals below. The proportional column shows what each party would have won if the 2 seats had been shared out 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.

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.

Council composition: what this election replaced

Two opencouncildata snapshots: the council immediately after the 2017 election (current) and immediately before it (2016). Only ~⅓ of seats were contested in 2017 — most of the bench is unchanged, and the cycle's effect on the overall composition is what shifts.

Wards in this council

Sorted with the largest gap below the quota first. Click any ward to jump to its full result.

• Biggleswade North · 1 seat · won at 35.1% · −14.9 pts below quota
• Shefford · 1 seat · won at 54.4% · above quota

Race results