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Himley & Swindon

South Staffordshire · polled Thursday 16 July
Conservative defending

The Conservatives won the ward's last contest in May 2023 with 64 per cent. Earlier contests were won by the Conservatives in 2019 and 2015. 7 candidates are standing.

Result
Conservative hold
Party Share
Conservative43.2%
Reform UK27.1%
Ind21.0%
Labour4.1%
Green3.2%
Liberal Democrats1.4%

How this ward has voted
ResultConservativeLiberal DemocratsGreenIndependents and others
May 202364%21%-14%
May 201959%--41%
May 201557%-12%31%

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 (31% in May 2015).

On the ballot
The council

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

Current composition of 42 seats
Conservative 28Labour 2Liberal Democrats 4Green 2Independents and others 5Vacant 1

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

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Wards coloured by the party that last won them; the by-election ward is outlined. Hover a ward for its last result.

Ward profile
Degree-educated28%
Owner-occupied77%
Social renting14%
Upper tier

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

In Westminster

The ward is part of the Kingswinford and South Staffordshire constituency. Conservative MP Mike Wood won it at the 2024 general election with 40 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.