Isles of Scilly
Isles of Scilly · South West · 16 seats in 5 wards · Next election 3 May 2029
Independents and others hold all 16 seats; no single party has a majority. The council has 16 councillors in 5 wards. Seats by party: Other 16. The next election is on 3 May 2029.
Seats by party
Who holds each ward
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 councillors | Last election |
|---|---|
| Bryher Alex Sandford | 1 May 2025 Uncontested |
| St Agnes Harry Legg | 1 May 2025 Uncontested |
| St Martin's Geoff White | 1 May 2025 Independent 76.7% lead 53.4 pts |
| St Mary's Robert Francis, Steve Sims, Avril Mumford, Dan Marcus, Euan Rodger, Andrew Guy, Tim Dean, Stuart Nixon, John Peacock, Joel Williams, Fran Grottick, Lynn Blackwell | 1 May 2025 Uncontested |
| Tresco Robert Dorrien-Smith | 1 May 2025 Uncontested |
Bryher
Last scheduled election, 1 May 2025
Uncontested. Elected: Alex Sandford (Independent).
St Agnes
Last scheduled election, 1 May 2025
Uncontested. Elected: Harry Francis Legg (Independent).
St Martin's
Last scheduled election, 1 May 2025
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geoff White Elected | Independent | 66 | 76.7% |
| Toby Tobin-Dougan | Independent | 20 | 23.3% |
St Mary's
Last scheduled election, 1 May 2025 (12 seats)
Uncontested. Elected: Andy Guy (Independent), Avril Washington Mumford (Independent), Daniel Michael Marcus (Independent), Euan Rodger (Independent), Fran Grottick (Independent), Joel Williams (Independent), John Peacock (Independent), Lynn Blackwell (Independent), Robert Francis (Independent), Steve Sims (Independent), Stuart Anthony Nixon (Independent), Tim Dean (Independent).
Tresco
Last scheduled election, 1 May 2025
Uncontested. Elected: Robert Arthur Dorrien-Smith (Independent).
Every council by-election since 2021
1 by-election since July 2021, 0 of them gains.
| Date | Ward | Result | Winner's share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2023 | St Marys | Independent hold |
Parliamentary constituencies
| Constituency | Share of council | 2024 winner | Projected now |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Ives | 100% | Lib Dem | Lib Dem 42% |
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 Isles of Scilly
2,054 residents in 939 households
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.
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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.