← Thursday 20 August 2026

St Neots Eynesbury

Huntingdonshire · polled Thursday 20 August
Reform UK defending

The ward last elected three councillors together, in May 2026: Reform UK took two seats and an Independent one, Reform on the most votes with 32 per cent. Independents won all three seats here in both 2018 and 2022. This by-election fills a Reform seat, vacated when Tony Nelson resigned on 30 June 2026, weeks after the May election, citing personal reasons. Six candidates are standing.

Result
Liberal Democrat gain from Reform UK
Party Share
Liberal Democrats47.9%
Reform UK30.3%
Conservative6.7%
Green5.5%
Labour4.9%
Independent4.8%

Projection published before polls closed
49 in 100
simulated outcomes
Reform UK: Slight favourite
Reform UK49 in 100
Liberal Democrats17 in 100
Conservative13 in 100
Independent11 in 100

Labour: fewer than 10 wins in 100 each.

Also on the ballot, not projected to win the seat: Green.

How often each candidate wins the seat across 10,000 simulations of this contest - chances of winning, not vote shares.

How this ward has voted
ResultConservativeLabourLiberal DemocratsGreenReform UKIndependents
May 202612%-21%8%32%27%
May 202231%22%---46%
May 201835%15%5%--45%

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.

On the ballot
Worth knowing
  • The Liberal Democrats candidate, Ian Pele Taylor, has won this ward before, then stood in May 2026, when Reform UK won, and is standing again.
The council

Huntingdonshire is a district council: it runs housing, planning and bin collections. Current control: no overall control.

Current composition of 52 seats
Conservative 15Labour 1Liberal Democrats 21Green 2Reform UK 9Independents and others 4

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-occupied61%
Social renting18%
Upper tier

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

In Westminster

The ward is part of the St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire constituency. Liberal Democrat MP Ian Sollom 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.