Stoke On Trent
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Cycles
Council composition as of 2025
44 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 (2023)
In 2023, 44 seats were up across 34 wards. The table below shows what each party actually won — alongside what they would have won if the 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 35,408 | 46.6% | 29 | 65.9% | 21 | 47.7% | +8 |
| Conservative Party | 29,631 | 39.0% | 14 | 31.8% | 18 | 40.9% | -4 |
| CIND | 5,908 | 7.8% | 1 | 2.3% | 3 | 6.8% | -2 |
| Independent | 4,084 | 5.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 4.5% | -2 |
| Green Party | 953 | 1.3% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Reform UK | 46 | 0.1% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| CPB | 25 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Total | 76,055 | 100.0% | 44 | 100.0% | 44 | 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 2023 →
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 | 2019 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbey Hulton | 50% | |
| Abbey Hulton and Townsend | 50% | |
| Baddeley Milton and Norton | 52% | |
| Baddeley, Milton and Norton | 56% | |
| Basford and Hartshill | 83% | |
| Bentilee and Ubberley | 42% | |
| Bentilee, Ubberley and Townsend | 67% | |
| Birches Head and Central Forest Park | 42% | |
| Birches Head and Northwood | 49% | |
| Blurton | 53% | |
| Blurton East | 42% | |
| Blurton West and Newstead | 32% | |
| Boothen | 67% | |
| Boothen and Oak Hill | 49% | |
| Bradeley and Chell Heath | 56% | 79% |
| Broadway and Longton East | 50% | |
| Bucknall and Eaton Park | 50% | |
| Burslem | 75% | |
| Burslem Central | 53% | |
| Burslem Park | 45% | 62% |
| Dresden and Florence | 49% | 50% |
| Eaton Park | 45% | |
| Etruria and Hanley | 55% | 56% |
| Fenton East | 33% | 48% |
| Fenton West and Mount Pleasant | 43% | 47% |
| Ford Green and Smallthorne | 44% | 69% |
| Goldenhill and Sandyford | 54% | 71% |
| Great Chell and Packmoor | 69% | 42% |
| Hanford and Trentham | 78% | |
| Hanford, Newstead and Trentham | 61% | |
| Hanley Park and Shelton | 69% | |
| Hanley Park, Joiner’s Square and Shelton | 60% | |
| Hartshill and Basford | 62% | |
| Hartshill Park and Stoke | 68% | |
| Hollybush | 55% | |
| Hollybush and Longton West | 44% | |
| Joiner's Square | 58% | |
| Lightwood North and Normacot | 59% | 57% |
| Little Chell and Stanfield | 45% | 57% |
| Longton and Meir Hay South | 55% | |
| Meir Hay | 68% | |
| Meir Hay North, Parkhall and Weston Coyney | 65% | |
| Meir North | 26% | 52% |
| Meir Park | 84% | 73% |
| Meir South | 40% | 53% |
| Moorcroft | 60% | |
| Moorcroft and Sneyd Green | 49% | |
| Penkhull and Springfields | 56% | |
| Penkhull and Stoke | 44% | |
| Sandford Hill | 41% | 59% |
| Sneyd Green | 56% | |
| Springfields and Trent Vale | 48% | |
| Trent Vale and Oak Hill | 53% | |
| Tunstall | 47% | 46% |
| Weston Coyney | 60% |