← Thursday 27 August 2026

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

Dover · polled Thursday 27 August
Conservative defending

The Conservatives won both seats when the ward last voted, in May 2023, with 43 per cent of the vote. Earlier contests were won by the Conservatives in 2019 and led by the Conservatives in 2019. 6 candidates are standing.

Result
Green gain from Conservative
Party Share
Green28.8%
Reform UK27.5%
Conservative17.1%
Labour14.6%
Restore Britain10.7%
Restore Britain and independents1.3%

Projection published before polls closed
43 in 100
simulated outcomes
Reform UK: Tossup
Reform UK43 in 100
Conservative27 in 100
Labour20 in 100

Green, Restore Britain and independents: 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.

The ward last held its own election in May 2023; this projection instead uses the fresher May 2025 Kent county-division result, the most recent vote covering the ward.

How this ward has voted
ResultConservativeLabourLiberal DemocratsGreenIndependents and others
May 202343%29%6%17%5%
Dec 201959%21%9%11%-
May 201952%19%-13%15%

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 Heritage Party (5% in May 2023), Renew (5% in December 2019) and Renew (5% in May 2019).

On the ballot
The council

Dover is a district council: it runs housing, planning and bin collections. Current control: Labour minority.

Current composition of 32 seats
Conservative 13Labour 12Green 1Independents and others 6

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-educated34%
Owner-occupied77%
Social renting7%
Upper tier

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

In Westminster

The ward is part of the Dover and Deal constituency. Labour MP Mike Tapp 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.