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Reform UK in 2021

Polling day: 6 May 2021. 227 councils held elections.

Summary

Contested in 113 of 227 councils; ran for 2,593 seats.
Won 2 seats (0.1% of seats up) on 0.4% of the vote.
Net change vs each council's last appearance in this dataset: 0 seats across 0 councils up, 0 councils down, 0 flat, 113 new to the window.

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 2021 — 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 (113)

Council	Won	Vote share	Seat share
Derby	2	7.2%	11.1%
Hyndburn	0	3.0%	0.0%
Hartlepool	0	2.3%	0.0%
Dartford	0	1.9%	0.0%
Basildon	0	1.9%	0.0%
Cotswold	0	1.4%	0.0%
Tendring	0	1.3%	0.0%
Walsall	0	1.2%	0.0%
Folkestone & Hythe	0	1.1%	0.0%
West Devon	0	1.0%	0.0%
Bassetlaw	0	1.0%	0.0%
Test Valley	0	1.0%	0.0%
Sheffield	0	1.0%	0.0%
Wychavon	0	1.0%	0.0%
Mid Sussex	0	0.9%	0.0%
Sandwell	0	0.9%	0.0%
Halton	0	0.9%	0.0%
North West Leicestershire	0	0.9%	0.0%
Brentwood	0	0.9%	0.0%
Surrey Heath	0	0.9%	0.0%
Charnwood	0	0.8%	0.0%
Erewash	0	0.8%	0.0%
Gosport	0	0.8%	0.0%
Colchester	0	0.7%	0.0%
Malvern Hills	0	0.7%	0.0%
West Lindsey	0	0.7%	0.0%
Tameside	0	0.7%	0.0%
Newcastle-Under-Lyme	0	0.6%	0.0%
Swale	0	0.6%	0.0%
Spelthorne	0	0.6%	0.0%
Eastbourne	0	0.6%	0.0%
Melton	0	0.5%	0.0%
Worcester	0	0.5%	0.0%
South Derbyshire	0	0.5%	0.0%
Lincoln	0	0.5%	0.0%
Thanet	0	0.5%	0.0%
West Oxfordshire	0	0.5%	0.0%
Thurrock	0	0.5%	0.0%
Hinckley & Bosworth	0	0.5%	0.0%
Rushcliffe	0	0.4%	0.0%
Maidstone	0	0.4%	0.0%
Fareham	0	0.4%	0.0%
Northumberland	0	0.4%	0.0%
Cannock Chase	0	0.4%	0.0%
Elmbridge	0	0.4%	0.0%
Wakefield	0	0.4%	0.0%
Castle Point	0	0.4%	0.0%
Great Yarmouth	0	0.4%	0.0%
Newark & Sherwood	0	0.3%	0.0%
South Tyneside	0	0.3%	0.0%
Stafford	0	0.3%	0.0%
Manchester	0	0.3%	0.0%
Wyre	0	0.3%	0.0%
Stockport	0	0.3%	0.0%
Stevenage	0	0.3%	0.0%
Barnsley	0	0.3%	0.0%
South Hams	0	0.3%	0.0%
Newcastle Upon Tyne	0	0.3%	0.0%
Mole Valley	0	0.3%	0.0%
Rother	0	0.3%	0.0%
Wirral	0	0.3%	0.0%
Stratford On Avon	0	0.3%	0.0%
Mansfield	0	0.3%	0.0%
Vale Of White Horse	0	0.3%	0.0%
Eastleigh	0	0.3%	0.0%
Crawley	0	0.3%	0.0%
Hart	0	0.3%	0.0%
Epping Forest	0	0.2%	0.0%
Wealden	0	0.2%	0.0%
East Hertfordshire	0	0.2%	0.0%
North East Derbyshire	0	0.2%	0.0%
St Albans	0	0.2%	0.0%
North Tyneside	0	0.2%	0.0%
North Northamptonshire	0	0.2%	0.0%
Watford	0	0.2%	0.0%
Dudley	0	0.2%	0.0%
North Hertfordshire	0	0.2%	0.0%
Waverley	0	0.2%	0.0%
Teignbridge	0	0.2%	0.0%
Dacorum	0	0.2%	0.0%
Winchester	0	0.2%	0.0%
Reading	0	0.2%	0.0%
Rushmoor	0	0.2%	0.0%
West Northamptonshire	0	0.2%	0.0%
Solihull	0	0.2%	0.0%
High Peak	0	0.2%	0.0%
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk	0	0.2%	0.0%
Wigan	0	0.2%	0.0%
Chichester	0	0.2%	0.0%
South Norfolk	0	0.2%	0.0%
Bromsgrove	0	0.2%	0.0%
Tunbridge Wells	0	0.1%	0.0%
Doncaster	0	0.1%	0.0%
East Devon	0	0.1%	0.0%
Oldham	0	0.1%	0.0%
Gateshead	0	0.1%	0.0%
Cherwell	0	0.1%	0.0%
Nuneaton & Bedworth	0	0.1%	0.0%
Southampton	0	0.1%	0.0%
East Hampshire	0	0.1%	0.0%
Bradford	0	0.1%	0.0%
Coventry	0	0.1%	0.0%
Cornwall	0	0.1%	0.0%
Buckinghamshire	0	0.1%	0.0%
Shropshire	0	0.1%	0.0%
Preston	0	0.1%	0.0%
Milton Keynes	0	0.1%	0.0%
Calderdale	0	0.1%	0.0%
Kirklees	0	0.1%	0.0%
Leeds	0	0.1%	0.0%
West Lancashire	0	0.0%	0.0%
County Durham	0	0.0%	0.0%
Bristol, City Of	0	0.0%	0.0%

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.