← Thursday 20 August 2026

Leen Valley

Nottingham · polled Thursday 20 August
Labour defending

Labour won both seats when the ward last voted, in May 2023, with 67 per cent of the vote. Earlier contests were led by Labour in 2019 and 2015. The seat fell vacant after one of the sitting councillors, elected for Labour in 2023, was disqualified for not attending any council meeting for six months. Six candidates are standing.

Result
Labour hold
Party Share
Labour30.5%
Nottingham People’s Alliance23.2%
Reform UK18.2%
Green16.7%
Conservative8.4%
Liberal Democrats3.0%

Projection published before polls closed
72 in 100
simulated outcomes
Labour: Favourite
Labour72 in 100
Reform UK12 in 100

Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Nottingham People’s Alliance, Green: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

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 DemocratsGreenIndependents and others
May 202321%67%13%--
May 201922%64%14%--
May 201524%50%15%4%7%

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 (7% in May 2015).

On the ballot
The council

Nottingham is a unitary authority: it runs every local service, from schools to bins. Current control: Labour.

Current composition of 55 seats
Labour 43Green 1Independents and others 10Vacant 1

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

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Ward profile
Degree-educated32%
Owner-occupied70%
Social renting12%
Upper tier

There is no county council above Nottingham.

In Westminster

The ward is part of the Nottingham North and Kimberley constituency. Labour MP Alex Norris won it at the 2024 general election with 47 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.