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Every election cycle we have data for, most recent first.

5 cycles in our data
55.2% all-time seats elected below the quota (90 of 163)
16.0% all-time seats unfairly awarded (26 of 163 across 5 cycles)

Cycles

Council composition as of 2025

55 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, 55 seats were up across 55 wards. The table below shows what each party actually won — alongside what they would have won if the 55 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.

PartyVotesVote %Seats won% of seatsProportional seatsProportional %Δ
Liberal Democrats49,56527.2%2749.1%1629.1%+11
Reform UK45,90425.2%1120.0%1425.5%-3
Conservative Party37,82420.8%610.9%1221.8%-6
Green Party27,11014.9%916.4%814.5%+1
Labour Party15,4328.5%11.8%47.3%-3
Independent5,0792.8%11.8%11.8%0
Tewkesbury and Twyning Independents7850.4%00.0%00.0%0
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition2010.1%00.0%00.0%0
Workers Party of Britain340.0%00.0%00.0%0
Socialist Labour Party300.0%00.0%00.0%0
The Socialist Party of Great Britain250.0%00.0%00.0%0
Christian Peoples Alliance220.0%00.0%00.0%0
Total182,011100.0%55100.0%55100.0%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.

Vote share
Actual seats
Proportional seats

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.

2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

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.

Ward20162017201920212025
Abbey70%65%39%
All Saints and Oakley53%47%48%
Barnwood and Hucclecote50%51%39%
Barton and Tredworth51%54%36%
Battledown and Charlton Kings46%45%45%
Benhall and Up Hatherley52%50%49%
Bishop's Cleeve61%57%
Bishops Cleeve54%
Bisley and Painswick50%47%46%
Blakeney and Bream33%34%40%
Bourton-on-the-Water and Northleach60%56%56%
Brockworth53%53%36%
Cam Valley54%55%30%
Campden-Vale68%63%40%
Charlton Park and College61%48%51%
Churchdown54%51%48%59%48%
Cinderford54%51%44%
Cirencester Beeches58%54%
Cirencester North with Ermin45%
Cirencester Park63%54%52%
Coleford48%44%36%
Coney Hill and Matson43%51%36%
Drybrook and Lydbrook33%36%
Drybrook and Lydford33%
Dursley45%50%26%
Fairford and Lechlade on Thames55%59%40%
Grange and Kingsway57%57%37%
Hardwicke and Severn58%61%35%
Haresfield and Upton St Leonards38%
Hempsted and Westgate50%42%30%
Hesters Way and Springbank54%48%42%
Highnam71%66%32%
Kingsholm and Wotton52%50%45%
Lansdown and Park50%48%41%
Leckhampton and Warden Hill49%42%48%
Longlevens49%52%41%
Lydney46%54%34%
Minchinhampton50%61%61%
Mitcheldean55%48%32%
Moreton, Stow and the Rissingtons37%
Nailsworth42%54%40%
Newent63%51%27%
Pittville and Prestbury38%53%
Pittville and St Paul's49%
Prestbury and Swindon Village28%
Quedgeley50%53%33%
Rodborough45%35%31%
Sedbury39%61%46%
Severn Vale44%
South Cerney49%51%47%
St Mark's and St Peter's59%50%
St Paul's and Swindon50%
St. Marks and St. Peters49%
St. Pauls and Swindon40%
Stonehouse46%43%27%
Stow-on-the-Wold63%53%
Stroud Central41%44%51%
Tetbury69%56%37%
Tewkesbury41%52%
Tewkesbury East64%46%33%
Tewkesbury West32%
Tuffley52%51%
Tuffley and Moreland33%
Winchcombe and Woodmancote64%53%35%
Wotton-under-Edge47%46%52%