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Elmbridge

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

Council composition (approx.)

48 councillors elected across cycles 2022, 2023, 2024, summed by party. One square per seat. Approximate: by-thirds councils mid-term, boundary reviews, and partial-cycle elections all mean this can be a few seats off the live council count. For the authoritative current composition, check the council's own members list. Hover any seat for the party.

Cycles

Party-control changes between cycles

Cases where the largest party (by seats won) changed from one cycle to the next. Each row shows the new party's vote share in both cycles and the seats they took. A small vote shift paired with a big seat shift is the First-Past-the-Post volatility story.

2021 2022

Conservative and Unionist Party Liberal Democrats

Vote shift (incoming party) +9.3 pts 28.8% → 38.1%
Seat shift (incoming party) +31.8 pts 12.0% → 43.8%
Outgoing party (vote / seats 2021 → 2022) 42.6% → 35.6% seats: 52.0% → 25.0%

Vote share vs seat share

2021
Votes
Seats
2022
Votes
Seats

Caveat for by-thirds councils: only a third of the seats are elected in each cycle, so a flip in the "largest party this cycle" doesn't necessarily mean a flip in overall council control. The vote-vs-seat divergence still tells you something about how First-Past-the-Post allocates the seats that were contested.

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.

Ward2021202220232024
Claygate60%64%70%40%
Cobham66%
Cobham & Downside65%48%49%
Cobham and Downside46%
East Molesey & Esher54%
Esher52%46%51%46%
Hersham59%
Hersham Village52%45%47%49%
Hinchley Wood & Weston Green59%64%62%
Hinchley Wood and Weston Green63%
Hinchley Wood/ Claygate & Oxshott47%
Long Ditton53%73%71%69%
Molesey East35%36%43%48%
Molesey West49%43%43%45%
Oatlands & Burwood Park59%50%51%
Oatlands and Burwood Park48%
Oxshott & D'abernon69%
Oxshott & D'Abernon56%
Oxshott & Stoke D'Abernon61%
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon59%
Thames Ditton56%59%58%51%
The Dittons50%
Walton48%
Walton Central47%31%40%44%
Walton North39%56%55%63%
Walton South51%55%50%52%
Walton South & Oatlands54%
West Molesey47%
Weybridge50%
Weybridge Riverside50%52%53%60%
Weybridge St. Georges Hill45%51%49%53%