Council profile

Gloucestershire

Data through 26 October 2026

County council · South West · 55 seats in 55 divisions · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

Liberal Democrats run Gloucestershire County Council as a minority administration. The council has 55 councillors in 55 divisions. Seats by party: Lib Dem 27, Reform 9, Green 9, Conservative 6, Other 3, Labour 1. The next election is on 3 May 2029.

A government plan to replace the councils in this area with one unitary council was paused for review on 7 September 2026. Elections due in May 2027 will go ahead on existing council boundaries. Source

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Minority)
55 seats - 28 for a majority
9
1
6
27
9
3
Reform 9Labour 1Conservative 6Lib Dem 27Green 9Other 3
Seat changes since the 1 May 2025 election Other +2 Reform −2
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (55 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Lib Dem27.2%27
Reform25.2%11
Conservative20.8%6
Green14.9%9
Labour8.5%1
Other3.4%1
Next election
3 May 2029
all 55 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Lib Dem 27
1 short of the 28 needed for a majority
Closest result
Lib Dem won by 9 votes over Reform, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Lib Dem hold, 2 July 2026 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
51%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AbbeyAll Saints & OakleyBarnwood & HucclecoteBarton & TredworthBattledown & Charlton KingsBenhall & Up HatherleyBishop's CleeveBisley & PainswickBlakeney & BreamBourton-on-the-Water & NorthleachBrockworthCam ValleyCampden-ValeCharlton Park & CollegeChurchdownCinderfordCirencester North with ErminCirencester ParkColefordConey Hill & MatsonDrybrook & LydbrookDursleyFairford & Lechlade on ThamesGrange & KingswayHardwicke & SevernHaresfield & Upton St LeonardsHempsted & WestgateHesters Way & SpringbankHighnamKingsholm & WottonLansdown & ParkLeckhampton & Warden HillLonglevensLydneyMinchinhamptonMitcheldeanMoreton, Stow & the RissingtonsNailsworthNewentPittville & St Paul'sPrestbury & Swindon VillageQuedgeleyRodboroughSedburySevern ValeSouth CerneySt Mark's & St Peter'sStonehouseStroud CentralTetburyTewkesbury EastTewkesbury WestTuffley & MorelandWinchcombe & WoodmancoteWotton-under-Edge
LabourConservativeLib DemReformGreenRestore BritainIndependent

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
Andrew Gravells
1 May 2025
Conservative 38.5% lead 9.9 pts
All Saints & Oakley
Colin Hay
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 48.2% lead 23.7 pts
Barnwood & Hucclecote
Ashley Bowkett
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 38.7% lead 10.5 pts
Barton & Tredworth
Sajid Patel
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.9% lead 14.7 pts
Battledown & Charlton Kings
Angela Boyes
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 44.4% lead 14.9 pts
Benhall & Up Hatherley
Roger Whyborn
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 49.1% lead 25.0 pts
Bishop's Cleeve
Alex Hegenbarth
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 56.4% lead 28.5 pts
Bisley & Painswick
Gary Luff
1 May 2025
Green 45.5% lead 19.8 pts
Blakeney & Bream
Beki Hoyland
1 May 2025
Green 40.0% lead 8.6 pts
Bourton-on-the-Water & Northleach
Paul Hodgkinson
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 55.8% lead 33.5 pts
Brockworth
Ben Evans
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 35.9% lead 10.0 pts
Cam Valley
Michael Rees
1 May 2025
Reform 30.3% lead 10.0 pts
Campden-Vale
Tom Bradley
1 May 2025
Conservative 39.9% lead 16.3 pts
Charlton Park & College
Iain Dobie
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 50.8% lead 28.1 pts
Churchdown
Stewart Dove
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.7% lead 17.3 pts
Cinderford
Ray Donaghue
1 May 2025
Reform 43.8% lead 16.3 pts
Cirencester North with Ermin
Mark Harris
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 44.8% lead 20.0 pts
Cirencester Park
Andrea Pellegram
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 52.1% lead 30.7 pts
Coleford
Leigh Challis
1 May 2025
Reform 35.6% lead 16.6 pts
Coney Hill & Matson
Alastair Chambers
1 May 2025
Independent 36.2% lead 7.3 pts
Drybrook & Lydbrook
Piers Camp
1 May 2025
Reform 36.4% lead 17.8 pts
Dursley
Richard Dean
1 May 2025
Green 25.8% lead 1.2 pts
Fairford & Lechlade on Thames
Dom Morris
1 May 2025
Conservative 40.0% lead 5.1 pts
Grange & Kingsway
Jason Preece
1 May 2025
Reform 37.4% lead 13.3 pts
Hardwicke & Severn
Stephen Davies
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.5% lead 3.8 pts
Haresfield & Upton St Leonards
John Patient
1 May 2025
Green 38.3% lead 12.1 pts
Hempsted & Westgate
Rebecca Trimnell
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 29.7% lead 5.4 pts
Hesters Way & Springbank
Suzanne Williams
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 41.3% lead 10.0 pts
Highnam
Sarah Hands
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 32.4% lead 0.3 pts
Kingsholm & Wotton
Jeremy Hilton
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 45.1% lead 23.1 pts
Lansdown & Park
Glenn Andrews
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 41.4% lead 11.4 pts
Leckhampton & Warden Hill
Martin Horwood
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.8% lead 17.6 pts
Longlevens
Sarah Sawyer
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 40.9% lead 9.5 pts
Lydney
Mark Howard
1 May 2025
Reform 34.4% lead 5.8 pts
Minchinhampton
Chloe Turner
1 May 2025
Green 60.5% lead 43.4 pts
Mitcheldean
Stuart Graham
1 May 2025
Reform 31.8% lead 6.1 pts
Moreton, Stow & the Rissingtons
Daryl Corps
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.8% lead 5.4 pts
Nailsworth
Steve Robinson
1 May 2025
Labour 40.1% lead 11.2 pts
Newent
Gill Moseley
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 27.3% lead 1.0 pts
Pittville & St Paul's
Julian Tooke
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 48.7% lead 29.7 pts
Prestbury & Swindon Village
Ian Cameron
1 May 2025
Green 27.8% lead 0.7 pts
Quedgeley
Chris Mayo
1 May 2025
Reform 32.6% lead 5.8 pts
Rodborough
Craig Horrocks
1 May 2025
Green 31.4% lead 0.3 pts
Sedbury
Chris McFarling
1 May 2025
Green 45.6% lead 17.6 pts
Severn Vale
Richard Stanley
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 44.4% lead 17.5 pts
South Cerney
Lisa Spivey
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.3% lead 20.3 pts
St Mark's & St Peter's
Victoria Atherstone
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 49.8% lead 24.8 pts
Stonehouse
Dean Botterill
1 May 2025
Reform 27.4% lead 0.7 pts
Stroud Central
Natalie Rothwell-Warn
1 May 2025
Green 51.1% lead 32.3 pts
Tetbury
Ian Watson
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 37.3% lead 1.0 pts
Tewkesbury East
Kate Usmar
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 32.5% lead 0.3 pts
Tewkesbury West
Vernon Smith
1 May 2025
Reform 31.6% lead 5.2 pts
Tuffley & Moreland
Vernon Gray
1 May 2025
Reform 33.0% lead 11.0 pts
Winchcombe & Woodmancote
Cheryl Agg
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 35.4% lead 5.9 pts
Wotton-under-Edge
Linda Cohen
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 51.6% lead 31.6 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Cam ValleyMichael ReesReform 2025Restore Britain
MitcheldeanStuart GrahamReform 2025Independent

Every council by-election since 2021

2 by-elections since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
2 July 2026Cirencester ParkLib Dem hold58.7%
27 May 2023Tewkesbury: HighnamConservative hold

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Gloucester18%LabourLabour 32%
Cheltenham16%Lib DemLib Dem 44%
Tewkesbury15%Lib DemLib Dem 30%
Stroud15%LabourLabour 41%
North Cotswolds14%ConservativeConservative 29%
Forest of Dean14%LabourLabour 31%
South Cotswolds9%Lib DemLib Dem 38%

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 Gloucestershire

645,091 residents in 279,409 households

Voted Leave in 2016
51% 1 below GB
Degree or higher
36% 2 above GB
No qualifications
15% 3 below GB
Own their home
68% 7 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
13% 4 below GB
Rent privately
18% 2 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
27% 4 below GB
Aged 65 and over
26% 4 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.