2025 Kent County Council election|
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First party |
Second party |
Third party |
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Ref |
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Con |
| Leader |
Linden Kemkaran |
Antony Hook |
Roger Gough (defeated) |
| Party |
Reform UK |
Liberal Democrats |
Conservative |
| Leader since |
22 May 2025 |
2 June 2021 |
4 October 2019 |
| Leader's seat |
Maidstone South East |
Faversham |
Sevenoaks North & Darent Valley |
| Last election |
0 seats, 0.4% |
6 seats, 11.1% |
62 seats, 49.1% |
| Seats before |
3 |
6 |
58 |
| Seats won |
57 |
12 |
5 |
| Seat change |
57 |
6 |
57 |
| Popular vote |
173,145 |
55,375 |
101,136 |
| Percentage |
37.0% |
11.8% |
21.6% |
| Swing |
36.6 pp |
0.7 pp |
27.5 pp |
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Fourth party |
Fifth party |
Sixth party |
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Grn |
Lab |
SI |
| Leader |
Rich Lehmann |
Alister Brady |
Mike Baldock
(defeated) |
| Party |
Green |
Labour |
Swale Ind. |
| Last election |
4 seats, 13.8% |
7 seats, 20.5% |
1 seat, 1.6% |
| Seats before |
5 |
6 |
1 |
| Seats won |
5 |
2 |
0 |
| Seat change |
1 |
5 |
1 |
| Popular vote |
64,010 |
61,339 |
5,083 |
| Percentage |
13.7% |
13.1% |
1.1% |
| Swing |
0.1 pp |
7.4 pp |
0.5 pp |
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Seventh party |
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Res |
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| Leader |
N/A |
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| Party |
Residents |
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| Last election |
1 seat, 0.5% |
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| Seats before |
0 |
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| Seats won |
0 |
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| Seat change |
1 |
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| Popular vote |
641 |
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| Percentage |
0.1% |
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| Swing |
0.3 pp |
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The 2025 Kent County Council election took place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Kent County Council in Kent, England. Reform UK won a majority of the 81 seats, as the Conservatives lost the vast majority of their seats including most of the Cabinet. Reform won all seats in the Ashford, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham and Thanet districts.
This was on the same day as other local elections; Kent County Council had asked for the election to be postponed under the devolution programme but this was rejected, so the election was held as planned.
