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West Oxfordshire

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

Council composition (approx.)

44 councillors elected across cycles 2023, 2024, 2025, 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.

2024 2025

Liberal Democrats Conservative and Unionist Party

Vote shift (incoming party) −4.0 pts 33.8% → 29.9%
Seat shift (incoming party) +21.9 pts 23.5% → 45.5%
Outgoing party (vote / seats 2024 → 2025) 30.4% → 30.0% seats: 41.2% → 36.4%

Vote share vs seat share

2024
Votes
Seats
2025
Votes
Seats

2021 2022

Conservative and Unionist Party Liberal Democrats

Vote shift (incoming party) +11.9 pts 24.1% → 36.0%
Seat shift (incoming party) +24.1 pts 25.9% → 50.0%
Outgoing party (vote / seats 2021 → 2022) 43.5% → 37.4% seats: 48.1% → 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.

Ward20212022202320242025
Alvescot & Filkins47%
Ascott & Shipton42%
Bampton & Carterton South37%
Bampton & Clanfield47%47%
Brize Norton & Carterton East34%
Brize Norton & Shilton54%
Burford66%
Burford & Carterton North63%
Burford & Carterton West33%
Carterton North East45%50%
Carterton North West38%46%
Carterton South65%43%
Carterton South & West60%
Chadlington & Churchill45%
Chadlington and Churchill56%
Charlbury & Finstock55%59%
Charlbury & Wychwood47%49%
Charlbury and Finstock59%
Chipping Norton55%61%39%61%34%
Ducklington48%
Eynsham50%48%
Eynsham & Cassington55%63%58%
Eynsham and Cassington50%
Freeland & Hanborough52%51%
Freeland And Hanborough39%
Hailey Minster Lovell & Leafield55%49%
Hailey Minster Lovell and Leafield44%
Hanborough & Hailey43%
Hanborough & Minster Lovell52%
Kingham Rollright & Enstone54%50%
Kingham Rollright and Enstone43%
Milton-Under-Wychwood58%53%
North Leigh59%54%
Standlake Aston & Stanton Harcourt56%58%
Standlake Aston and Stanton Harcourt51%
Stonesfield & Tackley40%46%
Stonesfield and Tackley34%
The Bartons74%
Witney Central53%42%53%
Witney East48%48%41%45%
Witney North42%36%31%
Witney North & East40%30%
Witney South45%46%46%42%
Witney South & Central43%34%
Witney West52%51%42%
Witney West & Brampton58%
Witney West & Ducklington38%
Woodstock47%45%
Woodstock & Bladon50%51%
Woodstock and Bladon43%