← Thursday 27 August 2026

Billinge & Seneley Green

St Helens · polled Thursday 27 August
Reform UK defending

Reform UK won all three seats when the ward last voted, in May 2026, with 43 per cent of the vote. Earlier contests were led by independents and others in 2022 and won by Labour in 2021. 6 candidates are standing.

Result
Labour gain from Reform UK
Party Share
Labour41.4%
Reform UK31.9%
Independents19.8%
Green3.8%
Conservative3.0%

Projection published before polls closed
44 in 100
simulated outcomes
Labour: Tossup
Labour44 in 100
Reform UK42 in 100

Independents, Conservative, Green: fewer than 8 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
ResultConservativeLabourGreenReform UKIndependents
May 20263%25%11%43%18%
May 20228%45%--47%
May 202134%43%24%--

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 Green candidate has stood here before, polling 25 per cent.
  • The Labour candidate has stood here before, polling 29 per cent.
The council

St Helens is a metropolitan borough: it runs every local service, from schools to bins. Current control: Reform UK.

Current composition of 48 seats
Conservative 1Labour 4Liberal Democrats 3Reform UK 34Independents 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-educated30%
Owner-occupied83%
Social renting9%
Upper tier

There is no county council above St Helens. Transport and some strategic functions sit with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

In Westminster

The ward is part of the St Helens North constituency. Labour MP David Baines won it at the 2024 general election with 53 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.