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Dereham Toftwood

Breckland · polled Thursday 16 July
Labour defending

Labour won both seats when the ward last voted, in May 2023, with 52 per cent of the vote. Earlier contests were led by the Conservatives in 2019 and 2015. 3 candidates are standing.

Result
Conservative gain from Labour
Party Share
Conservative45.8%
Reform UK36.9%
Labour17.2%

How this ward has voted
ResultConservativeLabourGreenIndependents and others
May 202348%52%--
May 201956%44%--
May 201544%24%15%17%

Winning share of all votes cast in bold. Multi-member wards elect several councillors at once. Includes any county-division contest covering the same ground. The independents-and-others share includes UKIP (17% in May 2015).

On the ballot
The council

Breckland is a district council: it runs housing, planning and bin collections. Current control: Conservative.

Current composition of 49 seats
Conservative 29Labour 9Green 1Reform UK 5Independents and others 5

Seats under the independents-and-others heading here have been won by independents at elections since 2022.

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Ward profile
Degree-educated19%
Owner-occupied71%
Social renting7%
Upper tier

Schools, social care and highways here are run by Norfolk County Council, which is not affected by this vote.

In Westminster

The ward is part of the Mid Norfolk constituency. Conservative MP George Freeman won it at the 2024 general election with 37 per cent of the vote.

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Council composition from Open Council Data. Candidates, candidate histories and polling-day information from Democracy Club. Historical ward results from the Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club. Boundary data contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.