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Reform UK in 2023

Polling day: 4 May 2023. 230 councils held elections.

Summary

Contested in 147 of 230 councils; ran for 5,155 seats.
Won 0 seats (0.0% of seats up) on 0.6% of the vote.
Net change vs each council's last appearance in this dataset: 0 seats across 0 councils up, 0 councils down, 45 flat, 102 new to the window.

Same votes, different counting rule

Compare the seats Reform UK actually won under FPTP with a proportional re-count of the same council-level votes. Positive means seats unfairly awarded by FPTP; negative means seats the party was denied by FPTP.

This cycle

147 FPTP council results in 2023

-7 seats

denied by FPTP (0 actual vs 7 benchmark)

Where the seats came from

Per-council net seat change vs each council's prior appearance in our dataset (typically that council's previous all-out election or its last by-thirds slice). "Debut" rows are councils whose first cycle in our window is 2023 — usually the result of a boundary reorganisation or being a county outside our 2021 LEH coverage.

Seats gained (0 councils)

No councils where seat count rose vs prior cycle.

Seats lost (0 councils)

No councils where seat count fell vs prior cycle.

Debut councils (102)

Council	Vote share	Seat share
Amber Valley	9.3%	0.0%
Sunderland	6.6%	0.0%
Stockton-on-Tees	2.1%	0.0%
West Lindsey	1.4%	0.0%
Stafford	1.3%	0.0%
Folkestone & Hythe	1.3%	0.0%
Blackpool	1.2%	0.0%
Hinckley & Bosworth	1.2%	0.0%
Charnwood	1.1%	0.0%
Swale	1.0%	0.0%
Dartford	1.0%	0.0%
Rochford	0.9%	0.0%
West Suffolk	0.9%	0.0%
Tendring	0.8%	0.0%
Mid Suffolk	0.7%	0.0%
North Kesteven	0.7%	0.0%
South Kesteven	0.7%	0.0%
Harlow	0.7%	0.0%
East Riding Of Yorkshire	0.6%	0.0%
Surrey Heath	0.6%	0.0%
Gravesham	0.6%	0.0%
Rugby	0.6%	0.0%
Welwyn Hatfield	0.6%	0.0%
South Holland	0.6%	0.0%
Broadland	0.6%	0.0%
Herefordshire	0.6%	0.0%
Central Bedfordshire	0.6%	0.0%
Breckland	0.6%	0.0%
Portsmouth	0.6%	0.0%
Spelthorne	0.5%	0.0%
Tamworth	0.5%	0.0%
Havant	0.5%	0.0%
Malvern Hills	0.5%	0.0%
Luton	0.5%	0.0%
West Devon	0.5%	0.0%
Braintree	0.5%	0.0%
Dacorum	0.5%	0.0%
Eastbourne	0.5%	0.0%
North West Leicestershire	0.4%	0.0%
Plymouth	0.4%	0.0%
Great Yarmouth	0.4%	0.0%
North Norfolk	0.4%	0.0%
Kingston Upon Hull	0.4%	0.0%
Wychavon	0.4%	0.0%
Thanet	0.4%	0.0%
Dover	0.4%	0.0%
Bedford	0.4%	0.0%
Runnymede	0.4%	0.0%
Canterbury	0.4%	0.0%
Fylde	0.4%	0.0%
Chichester	0.4%	0.0%
Redcar & Cleveland	0.3%	0.0%
Bolsover	0.3%	0.0%
East Staffordshire	0.3%	0.0%
South Oxfordshire	0.3%	0.0%
Worthing	0.3%	0.0%
Horsham	0.3%	0.0%
Tonbridge & Malling	0.3%	0.0%
Uttlesford	0.3%	0.0%
Staffordshire Moorlands	0.3%	0.0%
East Hampshire	0.3%	0.0%
East Hertfordshire	0.3%	0.0%
Fenland	0.3%	0.0%
West Berkshire	0.2%	0.0%
Bromsgrove	0.2%	0.0%
Ipswich	0.2%	0.0%
Wealden	0.2%	0.0%
Ashford	0.2%	0.0%
Harborough	0.2%	0.0%
Hertsmere	0.2%	0.0%
Lewes	0.2%	0.0%
South Gloucestershire	0.2%	0.0%
Bracknell Forest	0.2%	0.0%
Boston	0.2%	0.0%
Exeter	0.2%	0.0%
East Lindsey	0.2%	0.0%
Sefton	0.2%	0.0%
High Peak	0.2%	0.0%
Cheshire West & Chester	0.2%	0.0%
Vale Of White Horse	0.2%	0.0%
Blaby	0.2%	0.0%
South Norfolk	0.2%	0.0%
Waverley	0.2%	0.0%
Trafford	0.1%	0.0%
Salford	0.1%	0.0%
Stratford On Avon	0.1%	0.0%
Windsor & Maidenhead	0.1%	0.0%
Sevenoaks	0.1%	0.0%
Rushcliffe	0.1%	0.0%
Teignbridge	0.1%	0.0%
Mansfield	0.1%	0.0%
Wolverhampton	0.1%	0.0%
Newark & Sherwood	0.1%	0.0%
Medway	0.1%	0.0%
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole	0.1%	0.0%
Warwick	0.1%	0.0%
Cheshire East	0.1%	0.0%
Brighton & Hove	0.1%	0.0%
Stoke On Trent	0.1%	0.0%
Mid Devon	0.0%	0.0%
Leicester	0.0%	0.0%
Liverpool	0.0%	0.0%

No change (45)

Hartlepool 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Walsall 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Barnsley 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Lincoln 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Watford 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Sandwell 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Thurrock 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Milton Keynes 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Colchester 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
North Tyneside 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Sheffield 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Southampton 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Dudley 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Epping Forest 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
North Hertfordshire 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Wakefield 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Wigan 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Castle Point 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Hyndburn 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Crawley 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
South Tyneside 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Reigate & Banstead 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Halton 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Maidstone 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Basildon 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Brentwood 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Rushmoor 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Bradford 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Hart 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Leeds 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Kirklees 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Tunbridge Wells 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Stevenage 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Stockport 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Gateshead 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Wirral 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Elmbridge 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Manchester 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Eastleigh 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Bury 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Winchester 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
Worcester 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Peterborough 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
Coventry 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
St Albans 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)

Net-change comparisons are versus each council's most recent appearance in our dataset (2021–2026). For all-out councils that's the previous all-out cycle (typically four years prior); for by-thirds councils it's last year's slice. Cross-cycle ward boundary changes can produce small artefacts — see methodology.