2025 Hertfordshire County Council election

2025 Hertfordshire County Council election
1 May 2025
All 78 seats to Hertfordshire County Council
40 seats needed for a majority
Registered890,396
Turnout32.1% ( 5.1 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Steve Jarvis Richard Roberts Graham McAndrew
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Reform UK
Leader's seat Royston West and Rural King's Langley Stood in Hertford All Saints (lost)
Last election 23 seats, 26.5% 46 seats, 43.3% 0 seats, 0.2%
Seats before 22 42 1
Seats won 31 22 14
Seat change 8 24 14
Popular vote 74,749 74,099 69,090
Percentage 26.1% 26.1% 24.1%
Swing 0.4 pp 25.9 pp 23.9 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Nigel Bell Ben Crystall None
Party Labour Green Independent
Leader's seat West Watford Hertford All Saints None
Last election 7 seats, 21.2% 1 seats, 7.5% 1 seat, 0.8%
Seats before 6 1 5
Seats won 5 5 1
Seat change 2 4
Popular vote 38,389 26,532 2,649
Percentage 13.4% 9.3% 0.9%
Swing 7.8 pp 1.8 pp 0.1 pp
Map showing the results of the 2025 Hertfordshire County Council election. Liberal Democrats in amber, Conservatives in blue, Reform UK in turquoise, Labour in red, Greens in green and independents in grey.
Council composition after the election.
Leader before election

Richard Roberts
Conservative

 Leader after election

Steve Jarvis
Liberal Democrat
No overall control

The 2025 Hertfordshire County Council election was held on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Hertfordshire County Council in Hertfordshire, England. 78 councillors, one from each ward, were elected using the first-past-the-post voting system. This was on the same day as other local elections. Hertfordshire was one of 14 county councils to hold elections in 2025, after the government delayed several local elections to 2026 as part of a plan to reorganise local government.

Prior to the election, the council was under Conservative control, led by councillor Richard Roberts of King's Langley. Following the election the council went under no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats being the largest party. They subsequently formed a minority administration, with Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Jarvis of Royston West and Rural being appointed the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2025.

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