Council profile

Lancashire

Data through 26 October 2026

County council · North West · 84 seats in 82 divisions · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

Reform UK have a majority on Lancashire County Council. The council has 84 councillors in 82 divisions. Seats by party: Reform 51, Other 10, Conservative 9, Labour 6, Lib Dem 5, Green 3. The next election is on 3 May 2029.

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

Seats by party

Reform UK (Majority)
84 seats - 43 for a majority
51
6
9
5
3
10
Reform 51Labour 6Conservative 9Lib Dem 5Green 3Other 10
Seat changes since the 1 May 2025 election Labour +1 Conservative +1 Other +1 Green −1 Reform −2
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (84 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Reform35.4%53
Conservative21.2%8
Labour19.0%5
Lib Dem8.7%5
Green8.5%4
Other7.1%9
Next election
3 May 2029
all 84 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Reform 51
majority of 18; 43 needed
Closest result
Conservative won by 1 vote over Reform, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Green hold, 30 October 2023 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
58%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Accrington NorthAccrington SouthAccrington West & Oswaldtwistle CentralBrierfield & Nelson WestBurnley Central EastBurnley Central WestBurnley North EastBurnley RuralBurnley South WestBurscough & RuffordChorley CentralChorley NorthChorley Rural EastChorley Rural WestChorley SouthClayton with WhittleCleveleys EastCleveleys South & CarletonClitheroeEuxton, Buckshaw & AstleyFleetwood EastFleetwood West & Cleveleys WestFylde EastFylde SouthFylde WestGreat Harwood, Rishton & Clayton-le-MoorsHeyshamHoghton with WheeltonLancaster CentralLancaster EastLancaster Rural EastLancaster Rural NorthLancaster South EastLeyland CentralLeyland SouthLongridge with BowlandLostock Hall & Bamber BridgeLythamMid-RossendaleMorecambe CentralMorecambe NorthMorecambe SouthMoss Side & FaringtonNelson EastOrmskirkOswaldtwistlePadiham & Burnley WestPendle CentralPendle HillPendle RuralPenwortham East & Walton-le-DalePenwortham WestPoulton-le-FyldePreston Central EastPreston Central WestPreston CityPreston EastPreston NorthPreston RuralPreston South EastPreston South WestPreston WestRibble Valley North EastRibble Valley South WestRossendale EastRossendale SouthRossendale WestSkelmersdale CentralSkelmersdale EastSkelmersdale WestSkertonSouth Ribble EastSouth Ribble WestSt Annes NorthSt Annes SouthThornton & HambletonWest Lancashire EastWest Lancashire NorthWest Lancashire WestWhitworth & BacupWyre Rural CentralWyre Rural East
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
Accrington North
Joel Tetlow
1 May 2025
Reform 52.1% lead 30.0 pts
Accrington South
Ashley Joynes
1 May 2025
Reform 36.5% lead 8.4 pts
Accrington West & Oswaldtwistle Central
Sohail Asghar
1 May 2025
Green 30.6% lead 3.0 pts
Brierfield & Nelson West
Mohammed Iqbal
1 May 2025
Independent 65.7% lead 53.8 pts
Burnley Central East
Maheen Kamran
1 May 2025
Independent 37.9% lead 7.5 pts
Burnley Central West
Liam Thomson
1 May 2025
Reform 43.3% lead 19.2 pts
Burnley North East
Usman Arif
1 May 2025
Independent 59.1% lead 37.2 pts
Burnley Rural
Mark Poulton
1 May 2025
Reform 42.9% lead 22.7 pts
Burnley South West
Eddie Kutavicius
1 May 2025
Reform 48.2% lead 31.1 pts
Burscough & Rufford
Rick Edwards
1 May 2025
Reform 35.5% lead 9.8 pts
Chorley Central
Chris Snow
1 May 2025
Labour 35.5% lead 0.2 pts
Chorley North
Martin Topp
1 May 2025
Reform 41.1% lead 5.7 pts
Chorley Rural East
Kim Snape
1 May 2025
Labour 45.8% lead 11.1 pts
Chorley Rural West
Mark Wade
1 May 2025
Reform 38.2% lead 8.7 pts
Chorley South
Lee Hutchinson
1 May 2025
Reform 40.8% lead 12.8 pts
Clayton with Whittle
Mark Clifford
1 May 2025
Labour 37.2% lead 2.4 pts
Cleveleys East
James Crawford
1 May 2025
Reform 47.2% lead 15.3 pts
Cleveleys South & Carleton
Jan Schofield
1 May 2025
Reform 45.9% lead 21.4 pts
Clitheroe
Warren Goldsworthy
1 May 2025
Reform 31.5% lead 8.7 pts
Euxton, Buckshaw & Astley
Aidy Riggott
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.0% lead 0.7 pts
Fleetwood East
David Shaw
1 May 2025
Reform 53.7% lead 29.6 pts
Fleetwood West & Cleveleys West
Alice Jones
1 May 2025
Reform 54.7% lead 34.7 pts
Fylde East
Joshua Roberts
1 May 2025
Reform 34.3% lead 12.9 pts
Fylde South
David Dwyer
1 May 2025
Reform 36.9% lead 5.1 pts
Fylde West
John Singleton
1 May 2025
Conservative 42.7% lead 5.0 pts
Great Harwood, Rishton & Clayton-le-Moors
Jordan Fox, Lance Parkinson
1 May 2025
Reform 45.5% lead 15.7 pts
Heysham
Graeme Austin
1 May 2025
Reform 48.6% lead 21.6 pts
Hoghton with Wheelton
John Clemson
1 May 2025
Reform 37.1% lead 7.2 pts
Lancaster Central
Gina Dowding
1 May 2025
Green 57.2% lead 36.9 pts
Lancaster East
Paul Stubbins
1 May 2025
Green 54.0% lead 28.8 pts
Lancaster Rural East
Shaun Crimmins
1 May 2025
Reform 26.3% lead 0.7 pts
Lancaster Rural North
Graham Dalton
1 May 2025
Reform 30.2% lead 0.7 pts
Lancaster South East
Hamish Mills
1 May 2025
Green 50.4% lead 26.7 pts
Leyland Central
Hannah Whalley
1 May 2025
Reform 45.6% lead 13.0 pts
Leyland South
Ellie Close
1 May 2025
Reform 40.2% lead 13.7 pts
Longridge with Bowland
Ian Duxbury
1 May 2025
Reform 34.4% lead 11.5 pts
Lostock Hall & Bamber Bridge
Simon Gummer
1 May 2025
Reform 37.4% lead 6.8 pts
Lytham
Tim Ashton
1 May 2025
Conservative 40.1% lead 7.6 pts
Mid-Rossendale
Clive Balchin
1 May 2025
Reform 43.7% lead 13.9 pts
Morecambe Central
Gary Kniveton
1 May 2025
Reform 37.9% lead 6.4 pts
Morecambe North
Russell Walsh
1 May 2025
Reform 41.7% lead 22.2 pts
Morecambe South
Brian Moore
1 May 2025
Reform 45.7% lead 25.6 pts
Moss Side & Farington
Andy Blake
1 May 2025
Reform 36.8% lead 4.7 pts
Nelson East
Azhar Ali
1 May 2025
Independent 44.9% lead 19.8 pts
Ormskirk
Gordon Johnson
1 May 2025
Our West Lancashire 39.8% lead 13.4 pts
Oswaldtwistle
Gaynor Hargreaves
1 May 2025
Reform 42.1% lead 0.2 pts
Padiham & Burnley West
Tom Pickup
1 May 2025
Reform 43.8% lead 9.8 pts
Pendle Central
Marion Atkinson
1 May 2025
Reform 42.4% lead 16.4 pts
Pendle Hill
Howard Hartley
1 May 2025
Conservative 38.3% lead 5.9 pts
Pendle Rural
David Whipp, Nathan McCollum
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 35.6% lead 5.1 pts
Penwortham East & Walton-le-Dale
Lorenzo More
1 May 2025
Reform 35.9% lead 4.9 pts
Penwortham West
David Howarth
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 50.4% lead 23.3 pts
Poulton-le-Fylde
Alf Clempson
1 May 2025
Conservative 45.2% lead 15.4 pts
Preston Central East
Michael Lavalette
1 May 2025
Independent 47.9% lead 24.1 pts
Preston Central West
Matthew Brown
1 May 2025
Labour 31.2% lead 3.4 pts
Preston City
Yousuf Motala
1 May 2025
Independent 33.7% lead 3.2 pts
Preston East
Luke Parker
1 May 2025
Reform 43.3% lead 15.9 pts
Preston North
Fiona Duke
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 38.8% lead 16.1 pts
Preston Rural
Maria Jones
1 May 2025
Reform 34.6% lead 7.0 pts
Preston South East
Almas Razakazi
1 May 2025
Independent 29.3% lead 1.4 pts
Preston South West
Mark Jewell
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 39.7% lead 7.5 pts
Preston West
John Potter
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 42.9% lead 13.1 pts
Ribble Valley North East
Ged Mirfin
1 May 2025
Reform 38.4% lead 13.2 pts
Ribble Valley South West
Stephen Atkinson
1 May 2025
Reform 47.1% lead 22.3 pts
Rossendale East
Mackenzie Ritson
1 May 2025
Reform 51.6% lead 30.6 pts
Rossendale South
Joanne Ash
1 May 2025
Reform 41.1% lead 13.3 pts
Rossendale West
Samara Barnes
1 May 2025
Labour 37.8% lead 0.8 pts
Skelmersdale Central
Simon Evans
1 May 2025
Reform 47.3% lead 17.8 pts
Skelmersdale East
Nigel Swales
1 May 2025
Reform 41.6% lead 17.3 pts
Skelmersdale West
Ella Worthington
1 May 2025
Reform 41.8% lead 18.0 pts
Skerton
Martyn Sutton
1 May 2025
Reform 38.5% lead 11.8 pts
South Ribble East
Fred Cottam
1 May 2025
Reform 40.5% lead 15.0 pts
South Ribble West
Tom Lord
1 May 2025
Reform 40.4% lead 9.7 pts
St Annes North
Peter Buckley
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.0% lead 1 vote
St Annes South
Steve Rigby
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.6% lead 4.4 pts
Thornton & Hambleton
Nigel Alderson
1 May 2025
Reform 47.6% lead 21.2 pts
West Lancashire East
Adrian Owens
1 May 2025
Our West Lancashire 37.2% lead 14.5 pts
West Lancashire North
Thomas De Freitas
1 May 2025
Conservative 42.5% lead 7.7 pts
West Lancashire West
Leon Graham
1 May 2025
Reform 38.1% lead 9.8 pts
Whitworth & Bacup
Daniel Matchett
1 May 2025
Reform 44.0% lead 6.9 pts
Wyre Rural Central
Matthew Salter
1 May 2025
Reform 41.4% lead 4.1 pts
Wyre Rural East
James Tomlinson
1 May 2025
Reform 39.9% lead 6.9 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Accrington West & Oswaldtwistle CentralSohail AsgharGreen 2025Independent
Skelmersdale EastNigel SwalesReform 2025Labour
West Lancashire WestLeon GrahamReform 2025Conservative

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
30 October 2023Burnley Central WestGreen hold
18 September 2023Chorley Rural WestConservative hold

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Preston9%LabourLabour 34%
Burnley9%LabourLabour 35%
Pendle and Clitheroe8%LabourLabour 28%
Ribble Valley8%LabourLabour 32%
West Lancashire8%LabourLabour 43%
Hyndburn8%LabourLabour 32%
Chorley8%OtherOther 89%
Fylde8%ConservativeConservative 29%
South Ribble8%LabourLabour 36%
Lancaster and Wyre7%LabourLabour 36%
Morecambe and Lunesdale7%LabourLabour 33%
Blackpool North and Fleetwood6%LabourReform 34%
Rossendale and Darwen5%LabourLabour 35%
Southport1%LabourLabour 31%

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 Lancashire

1,235,351 residents in 525,267 households

Voted Leave in 2016
58% 6 above GB
Degree or higher
31% 3 below GB
No qualifications
19% 1 above GB
Own their home
68% 7 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
12% 5 below GB
Rent privately
19% 1 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
29% 2 below GB
Aged 65 and over
25% 3 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.