← Thursday 3 September 2026

Chesterton & Launton

Oxfordshire · polling day Thursday 3 September
Liberal Democrats defending

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

Chance of winning
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
ResultConservativeLabourLiberal DemocratsGreenReform UK
May 202528%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
Worth knowing
  • The Conservative candidate stood here in 2025, polling 28 per cent.
  • The Reform UK candidate stood here in 2025, polling 27 per cent.
The council

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

Current composition of 69 seats
Conservative 9Labour 12Liberal Democrats 34Green 7Reform UK 1Independents and others 5Vacant 1

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.