This week

Thursday 27 August 2026

5 contests are being held on Thursday 27 August 2026, in Dover, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield, St Helens and Wandsworth.

Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe

Dover · vacated by a Conservative councillor
Reform UK: Tossup wins 43 of 100 simulated outcomes
Reform UK43 in 100
Conservative27 in 100
Labour20 in 100

Green, Restore Britain and independents: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

The Conservatives won both seats when the ward last voted, in May 2023, with 43 per cent of the vote.

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Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn

Newcastle upon Tyne · vacated by a Reform UK councillor
Reform UK: Slight favourite wins 58 of 100 simulated outcomes
Reform UK58 in 100
Labour34 in 100

Conservative, Green, Liberal Democrats: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

Reform UK won all three seats when the ward last voted, in May 2026, with 44 per cent of the vote.

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Southey

Sheffield · vacated by a Labour councillor
Reform UK: Slight favourite wins 55 of 100 simulated outcomes
Reform UK55 in 100
Labour38 in 100

Conservative, Green, Liberal Democrats: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

This seat was last contested in May 2024, when Labour won it with 52 per cent.

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Billinge & Seneley Green

St Helens · vacated by a Reform UK councillor
Labour: Tossup wins 44 of 100 simulated outcomes
Labour44 in 100
Reform UK42 in 100

Independents, Conservative, Green: fewer than 8 wins in 100 each.

Reform UK won all three seats when the ward last voted, in May 2026, with 43 per cent of the vote.

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Trinity

Wandsworth · vacated by a Labour councillor
Labour: Slight favourite wins 60 of 100 simulated outcomes
Labour60 in 100
Conservative34 in 100

Green, Liberal Democrats: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

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

The ward last elected two councillors together, in May 2026; Labour took the most votes with 39 per cent.

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Council by-elections · Past results

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.