2025 Cornwall Council election

2025 Cornwall Council election

1 May 2025 (2025-05-01)

All 87 seats on Cornwall Council
44 seats needed for a majority
Turnout37%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rob Parsonage Leigh Frost N/A
Party Reform UK Liberal Democrats Independent
Leader's seat Torpoint

(won seat)

Bodmin St Petroc's N/A
Last election 0 seats, 0.1% 13 seats, 18.5% 16 seats, 16.3%
Seats before 0 13 20
Seats won 28 26 16
Seat change 28 13
Popular vote 47,846 40,259 22,564
Percentage 29.1% 24.4% 13.7%
Swing 29.0 5.9 2.6

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Linda Taylor Kate Ewert Dick Cole
Party Conservative Labour Co-op Mebyon Kernow
Leader's seat St Ives East, Lelant & Carbis Bay (did not contest) Rame Peninsula & St Germans St Dennis & St Enoder
Last election 47 seats, 37.9% 5 seats, 11.3% 5 seats, 5.3%
Seats before 43 5 5
Seats won 7 4 3
Seat change 40 1 2
Popular vote 25,881 15,100 6,524
Percentage 15.7% 9.2% 4.0%
Swing 22.2 2.1 1.3

  Seventh party
 
Leader No Leader
Party Green
Leader's seat N/A
Last election 1 seat, 9.2%
Seats before 1
Seats won 3
Seat change 2
Popular vote 6,408
Percentage 3.9%
Swing 5.3

Map showing the composition of Cornwall Council following the 2025 election.

Leader before election

Linda Taylor
Conservative
No overall control

Leader after election

Leigh Frost
Liberal Democrat
No overall control

The 2025 Cornwall Council election was held on Thursday 1 May 2025 to elect all 87 councillors to Cornwall Council. It took place on the same day as other council elections across England.

The council was under no overall control prior to the election, being run by a Conservative minority administration. Following the election, the council remained under no overall control, with Reform UK, which had no elected councillors at the prior ellection, the largest party but without a controlling majority. A Liberal Demcorat and independent administration subsequently formed to run the council after the election.