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Reform UK in 2024
Polling day: 2 May 2024. 107 councils held elections.
Summary
- Contested in 71 of 107 councils; ran for 1,781 seats.
- Won 2 seats (0.1% of seats up) on 2.1% of the vote.
- Net change vs each council's last appearance in this dataset: +2 seats across 1 councils up, 0 councils down, 60 flat, 10 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.
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 2024 — usually the result of a boundary reorganisation or being a county outside our 2021 LEH coverage.
Seats gained (1 councils)
| Council | Won | Last cycle | Net | Vote share | Seat share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havant | 2 | 0 (2023) | +2 | 3.5% | 5.6% |
Seats lost (0 councils)
No councils where seat count fell vs prior cycle.
Debut councils (10)
| Council | Won | Vote share | Seat share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwich | 0 | 1.8% | 0.0% |
| Warrington | 0 | 1.8% | 0.0% |
| Rotherham | 0 | 1.8% | 0.0% |
| Rochdale | 0 | 1.5% | 0.0% |
| Hastings | 0 | 1.4% | 0.0% |
| Basingstoke and Deane | 0 | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| Woking | 0 | 0.7% | 0.0% |
| Swindon | 0 | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| Knowsley | 0 | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| Dorset | 0 | 0.3% | 0.0% |
No change (60)
- Sunderland 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Hartlepool 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Plymouth 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Barnsley 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Walsall 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Lincoln 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Sandwell 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Tamworth 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Watford 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Rugby 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Southampton 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Rushmoor 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Cannock Chase 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
- Welwyn Hatfield 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Wigan 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Ipswich 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Stevenage 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Maidstone 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Trafford 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- North Tyneside 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- South Tyneside 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Colchester 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- St Albans 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Hyndburn 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Fareham 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
- Bolton 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
- North Hertfordshire 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Stockport 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Eastleigh 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Wakefield 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Leeds 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Runnymede 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- West Lancashire 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Kingston Upon Hull, City of 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Reigate and Banstead 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Oldham 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Tunbridge Wells 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Bradford 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Bury 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Portsmouth 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Halton 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- West Oxfordshire 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Brentwood 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Gosport 0 seats (unchanged from 2022)
- Hart 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Dudley 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Preston 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Milton Keynes 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Mole Valley 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Salford 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Gateshead 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Worcester 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Basildon 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Reading 0 seats (unchanged from 2021)
- Kirklees 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Epping Forest 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Elmbridge 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Sheffield 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Peterborough 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
- Sefton 0 seats (unchanged from 2023)
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.