Chesterton & Launton

Oxfordshire · polled Thursday 3 September

Liberal Democrats defending

The Liberal Democrats won the ward's last contest in May 2025 with 33 per cent. 5 candidates stood.

The council

Oxfordshire

Every ward and councillor, who runs the council, and each by-election since May.

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Result

Liberal Democrat hold

Party	Share
Liberal Democrats	41.7%
Conservative	28.9%
Reform UK	23.2%
Labour	3.2%
Green	3.0%

Turnout 31 per cent.

Projection published before polls closed

48 in 100

simulated outcomes

Liberal Democrats: Slight favourite

Liberal Democrats48 in 100

Conservative33 in 100

Reform UK14 in 100

Labour, 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

Result	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Green	Reform UK
May 2025	28%	5%	33%	7%	27%

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

James Henry Dean Hartley (Liberal Democrats)
42% of the vote, elected
Sandy Lewis Dallimore (Conservative)
29% of the vote
Ian Richard Hodgson (Reform UK)
23% of the vote
Gregory Michael Fish (Labour)
3% of the vote
Meri Mosharrafa (Green)
3% of the vote

Worth knowing

The Conservative candidate had stood here before.
The Reform UK candidate had stood here before.

The council

Oxfordshire is a county council: it runs schools, social care and highways. Current control: Liberal Democrat.

Current composition of 69 seats

Conservative 9Labour 12Liberal Democrats 35Green 7Reform UK 1Independents and others 5

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

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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.