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Tonbridge & Malling

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

2 cycles in our data
1.0% all-time seats elected below the quota (1 of 96)
12.5% all-time seats unfairly awarded (12 of 96 across 2 cycles)

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 19 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.

PartyVotesVote %Seats won% of seatsProportional seatsProportional %Δ
Conservative Party32,30440.2%2045.5%1943.2%+1
Liberal Democrats19,80824.6%1125.0%1125.0%0
Green Party16,62120.7%818.2%920.5%-1
Labour Party6,3587.9%36.8%36.8%0
IAK4,4725.6%24.5%24.5%0
Independent5270.7%00.0%00.0%0
Reform UK2440.3%00.0%00.0%0
Heritage Party770.1%00.0%00.0%0
Total80,411100.0%44100.0%44100.0%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 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.

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.

Ward20192023
Aylesford North and North Downs52%
Aylesford North and Walderslade76%
Aylesford South76%
Aylesford South and Ditton58%
Birling, Leybourne and Ryarsh63%
Borough Green and Long Mill82%
Borough Green and Platt81%
Bourne47%
Burham and Wouldham68%
Cage Green59%
Cage Green and Angel65%
Castle51%
Ditton59%
East and West Peckham, Mereworth and Wateringbury68%
East Malling79%
East Malling, West Malling and Offham80%
Hadlow and East Peckham72%
Higham67%56%
Hildenborough56%57%
Judd81%81%
Kings Hill65%61%
Larkfield83%
Larkfield North76%
Larkfield South83%
Medway47%
Pilgrims with Ightham55%
Snodland East and Ham Hill63%55%
Snodland West and Holborough Lakes56%65%
Trench53%45%
Vauxhall66%68%
Walderslade65%
Wateringbury49%
West Malling and Leybourne46%
Wrotham, Ightham and Stansted61%