2025 Wiltshire Council election

2025 Wiltshire Council election
1 May 2025
All 98 seats to Wiltshire Council
50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout35.03%
  First party Second party Third party
 
LD
Con
Ref
Leader Ian Thorn Richard Clewer Ed Rimmer
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Reform UK
Leader's seat Calne Central Downton & Ebble Valley Salisbury Bemerton Heath
Last election 27 seats, 28.1% 61 seats, 47.3% did not stand
Seats before 29 57 0
Seats won 43 37 10
Seat change 16 24 10
Popular vote 46,396 43,904 30,313
Percentage 33.9% 32.1% 22.2%
Swing 5.8 pp 15.2 pp 22.2 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Ind
Lab
Leader Ernie Clark Ricky Rogers
Party Independent Labour
Leader's seat Hilperton Salisbury Fisherton & Bemerton Village
Last election 7 seats, 8.7% 3 seats, 7.7%
Seats before 9 3
Seats won 7 1
Seat change 2
Popular vote 6,903 4,829
Percentage 5.1% 3.5%
Swing 3.6 pp 4.2 pp
Map showing the composition of Wiltshire Council following the election. Yellow showing Liberal Democrats, Blue showing Conservative, Turquoise showing Reform UK, Red showing Labour, and Grey showing Independents.
Council composition after the election.
Leader before election

Richard Clewer
Conservative

 Leader after election

Ian Thorn
Liberal Democrat
No overall control

The 2025 Wiltshire Council election was held on 1 May 2025, electing members to Wiltshire Council in Wiltshire, England, one of the 2025 United Kingdom local elections. All 98 councillors, one from each division, were elected using the first-past-the-post voting system. Wiltshire was one of eight unitary authorities to hold elections in 2025, after the government delayed local elections in many other areas until 2026 as part of a plan to reorganise local government. The council had a Conservative majority prior to the election. The election saw the council go under no overall control with the Liberal Democrats becoming the largest party.

The Conservatives lost nearly a third of their seats and overall control of the council, bringing an end to 25 years of majority rule. The Liberal Democrats emerged as the largest party on the council for the first time since 1997. Reform UK also experienced a significant increase in representation, winning 10 seats, the party's first-ever seats in the county council's elections. Labour experienced a decline of more than half in their share of the total vote, retaining only a single seat on the council. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2025, Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Thorn was appointed the new leader of the council, leading an administration based on a partnership between the Liberal Democrats and independents.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.