← Thursday 24 September 2026

Blockley

Cotswold · polled Thursday 24 September
Green defending

This by-election was called after the resignation of Green councillor Clare Turner, citing new work commitments. The Greens won the ward's last contest in May 2023 with 56 per cent. Earlier contests were won by the Conservatives in 2019 and 2015. 5 candidates stood.

The council

Cotswold

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

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Result
Conservative gain from Green
Party Share
Conservative54.7%
Liberal Democrats29.2%
Reform UK7.5%
Green6.9%
Labour1.8%

Projection published before polls closed
82 in 100
simulated outcomes
Conservative: Strong favourite
Conservative82 in 100

Reform UK, Green, Liberal Democrats, Labour: fewer than 7 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
May 2015
May 2019
May 2023
ResultConservativeLiberal DemocratsGreen
May 202344%-56%
May 201956%26%18%
May 201562%38%-

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
The council

Cotswold is a district council: it runs housing, planning and bin collections. Current control: Liberal Democrat.

Current composition of 34 seats
Conservative 11Liberal Democrats 22Independents and others 1

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-educated45%
Owner-occupied68%
Social renting17%
Recent results nearby

Campden-Vale county division, May 2025: Conservative 40%, Reform UK 24%, Green 23%.

Upper tier

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

In Westminster

The ward is part of the North Cotswolds constituency. Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown won it at the 2024 general election with 35 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.