Council profile

Buckinghamshire

Data through 26 October 2026

Unitary authority · South East · 97 seats in 49 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

The Conservatives have a majority on Buckinghamshire Council. The council has 97 councillors in 49 wards. Seats by party: Conservative 50, Lib Dem 26, Other 14, Labour 3, Reform 2, Green 2. The next election is on 3 May 2029.

Seats by party

Conservative (Majority)
97 seats - 49 for a majority
2
3
50
26
2
14
Reform 2Labour 3Conservative 50Lib Dem 26Green 2Other 14
Seat changes since the 1 May 2025 election Conservative +2 Other +1 Reform −1 Labour −1 Lib Dem −1
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (97 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Conservative27.6%48
Lib Dem22.6%27
Reform17.6%3
Other16.9%13
Labour10.3%4
Green4.9%2
Next election
3 May 2029
all 97 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Conservative 50
majority of 3; 49 needed
Closest result
Lib Dem won the last seat by 1 vote over Reform, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Conservative hold, 22 February 2024 (5 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
49%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AbbeyAmersham & Chesham BoisAston Clinton & Weston TurvilleAylesbury EastAylesbury NorthAylesbury North WestAylesbury South EastAylesbury South WestAylesbury WestBeaconsfieldBerryfields, Buckingham Park & WatermeadBierton, Kingsbrook & WingBooker & CressexBuckinghamBurnhamCastlefield & OakridgeChalfont St Giles & Little ChalfontChalfont St PeterChesham NorthChesham SouthChiltern VillagesDisraeliDownleyFarnhams & Stoke PogesFlackwell Heath & The WooburnsGerrards Cross & DenhamGrendon Underwood & The ClaydonsHaddenham & StoneHazlemereHorwoodIverIvinghoeLong CrendonMarlowMarsh & MicklefieldNewton LongvillePenn, Tylers Green & LoudwaterPrinces RisboroughQuaintonRidgeway EastRidgeway WestSandsTerriers & Amersham HillThe MissendensTotteridge & BowerdeanWaddesdonWendover, Halton & Stoke MandevilleWest Wycombe & Lane EndWinslow
LabourConservativeLib DemReformGreenIndependentOther

Coloured by the party holding most of the ward's seats today; where seats are split evenly, by the party with the higher share at the last election.

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillorsLast election
Abbey
Lesley Clarke, Mahboob Hussain
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.4% lead 15.3 pts
Amersham & Chesham Bois
Mark Roberts, Dominic Pinkney, Kelly Thornton
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 43.6% lead 9.6 pts
Aston Clinton & Weston Turville
Michael Collins, Steve Bowles
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.1% lead 4.3 pts
Aylesbury East
Mark Winn, Andy Huxley
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.0% lead 5.8 pts
Aylesbury North
Raj Khan, Susan Morgan
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 41.1% lead 22.3 pts
Aylesbury North West
Tuffail Hussain, Gurinder Wadhwa
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 42.7% lead 21.3 pts
Aylesbury South East
Sherrilyn Bateman, Tim Dixon
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 29.7% lead 5.3 pts
Aylesbury South West
Waheed Raja, Niknam Hussain
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 40.1% lead 18.7 pts
Aylesbury West
Nidhi Mehta, Alan Sherwell
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 22.3% lead 3.0 pts
Beaconsfield
Jackson NG, Christine Adali
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.2% lead 6.5 pts
Berryfields, Buckingham Park & Watermead
Cameron Anderson, Chirag Chotai
1 May 2025
Reform 26.4% lead 0.9 pts
Bierton, Kingsbrook & Wing
Julie Ward, Kathryn Gibbon
1 May 2025
Conservative 23.3% lead 5.3 pts
Booker & Cressex
Arman Alam
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.5% lead 6.5 pts
Buckingham
Robin Stuchbury, Anja Schaefer, Adekunle Osibogun
1 May 2025
Labour 38.1% lead 16.9 pts
Burnham
Paul Kelly, Kirsten Ashman, Cole Caesar
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.7% lead 5.8 pts
Castlefield & Oakridge
Majid Hussain, Mohammed Ayub
1 May 2025
Labour 46.8% lead 3.5 pts
Chalfont St Giles & Little Chalfont
Martin Tett, Carl Jackson, Simon Rouse
1 May 2025
Conservative 40.7% lead 3.9 pts
Chalfont St Peter
Isobel Darby, Karen Dickson
1 May 2025
Conservative 24.9% lead 4.4 pts
Chesham North
Mohammad Fayyaz, Justine Fulford, Frances Kneller
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.3% lead 19.4 pts
Chesham South
Alan Bacon, Parveiz Aslam
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.5% lead 19.8 pts
Chiltern Villages
Mark Turner
1 May 2025
Independent 47.8% lead 22.9 pts
Disraeli
Mahboob Hussain
1 May 2025
Conservative 42.3% lead 3.5 pts
Downley
Hazel Arthur-Hewitt
1 May 2025
Labour 38.1% lead 1.2 pts
Farnhams & Stoke Poges
Dev Dhillon, David Moore, Thomas Hogg
1 May 2025
Conservative 47.1% lead 20.6 pts
Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns
Penny Drayton, Larisa Townsend, Stuart Wilson
1 May 2025
Independent 25.7% lead 0.7 pts
Gerrards Cross & Denham
Michael Bracken, Thomas Broom, Jaspal Chhokar
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.5% lead 13.1 pts
Grendon Underwood & The Claydons
Frank Mahon, Patrick Fealey
1 May 2025
Conservative 38.0% lead 11.6 pts
Haddenham & Stone
Gregory Smith, Maru Mormina
1 May 2025
Green 40.5% lead 19.0 pts
Hazlemere
Ed Gemmell, Catherine Oliver
1 May 2025
Independent 38.3% lead 11.8 pts
Horwood
John Chilver
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.6% lead 3.0 pts
Iver
Wendy Matthews, Paul Griffin
1 May 2025
Conservative 23.5% lead 0.6 pts
Ivinghoe
Peter Brazier, Chris Poll
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.8% lead 11.7 pts
Long Crendon
Clive Harriss
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.6% lead 8.3 pts
Marlow
Anna Crabtree, Alex Collingwood, Carol Heap
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 28.8% lead 3.1 pts
Marsh & Micklefield
Trevor Snaith, Khalil Ahmed
1 May 2025
Independent 28.8% lead 3.7 pts
Newton Longville
Caroline Cornell, Jilly Jordan
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.0% lead 7.2 pts
Penn, Tylers Green & Loudwater
Michael West, Jonathan Waters
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 41.3% lead 10.5 pts
Princes Risborough
Gary Hall, Matthew Walsh
1 May 2025
Conservative 30.1% lead 4.4 pts
Quainton
Phil Gomm
1 May 2025
Conservative 41.8% lead 8.1 pts
Ridgeway East
David Carroll, Steven Broadbent
1 May 2025
Conservative 41.7% lead 20.0 pts
Ridgeway West
Robert Carington, Shade Adoh
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.4% lead 12.3 pts
Sands
Darren Hayday
1 May 2025
Independent 42.6% lead 9.8 pts
Terriers & Amersham Hill
Sarfaraz Raja, Chris Chilton
1 May 2025
Conservative 21.6% lead 0.7 pts
The Missendens
Peter Martin, Heather Wallace, Matthew Hind
1 May 2025
Conservative 25.1% lead 1.7 pts
Totteridge & Bowerdean
Julia Wassell, Imran Hussain
1 May 2025
Wycombe Independents 41.6% lead 14.5 pts
Waddesdon
Ashley Waite
1 May 2025
Conservative 44.4% lead 17.3 pts
Wendover, Halton & Stoke Mandeville
Dean Field, Peter Strachan
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 33.1% lead 1.8 pts
West Wycombe & Lane End
Orsolya Hayday
1 May 2025
Independent 52.5% lead 33.7 pts
Winslow
Llew Monger
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 32.4% lead 4.7 pts

Changed party since the election

2 councillors now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
BuckinghamRobin StuchburyLabour 2025Independent
Wendover, Halton & Stoke MandevilleDean FieldLib Dem 2025Conservative

Every council by-election since 2021

5 by-elections since July 2021, 2 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
22 February 2024Farnham Common and Burnham BeechesConservative hold
22 February 2024HazlemereConservative hold
6 November 2023Buckingham EastLib Dem gain from Conservative
29 July 2023DenhamConservative hold
30 June 2022BernwoodLib Dem gain from Conservative

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Aylesbury21%LabourConservative 29%
Mid Buckinghamshire19%ConservativeConservative 35%
Wycombe18%LabourLabour 34%
Chesham and Amersham18%Lib DemLib Dem 43%
Beaconsfield17%ConservativeConservative 37%
Buckingham and Bletchley8%LabourConservative 33%

Share of the council: the proportion of its census neighbourhoods (2021 LSOAs) in each seat. The projection is PollCheck's demographic model at current polling, not a forecast.

Who lives in Buckinghamshire

553,088 residents in 220,310 households

Voted Leave in 2016
49% 3 below GB
Degree or higher
41% 7 above GB
No qualifications
14% 4 below GB
Own their home
70% 9 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
13% 4 below GB
Rent privately
16% 4 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
27% 4 below GB
Aged 65 and over
23% 1 above GB

GB figure. 2021 Census (Scotland: 2022): age as a share of residents aged 15 and over, qualifications of residents aged 16 and over, housing as a share of households. Leave: 2016 EU referendum, Electoral Commission results by counting area.

Councils most like this one

Closest on the measures above: the 2016 Leave vote, age, qualifications and housing. Maps show which party holds each ward.

Sources and method

Seat totals and control: PollCheck council control tracker. Councillors: Open Council Data (CC BY-SA 4.0). Election results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), with some vote counts from DCLEAPIL, Leman (2025) (CC BY-SA 4.0), and corrections checked against councils' official declarations. Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census: Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland.

Councillor lists and DCLEAPIL-derived vote counts on this page are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In wards electing more than one councillor, a party's share counts only its leading candidate (the Rallings and Thrasher method). Independents count individually. The lead is the gap between the top two parties' shares.