Council profile

North Somerset

Data through 26 October 2026

Unitary authority · South West · 50 seats in 35 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 6 May 2027

North Somerset Council is run by a Liberal Democrats / Labour / Green / Independent coalition. The council has 50 councillors in 35 wards. Seats by party: Conservative 12, Labour 10, Lib Dem 9, Other 8, Green 8, Reform 3. The next election is on 6 May 2027.

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats / Labour / Green / Independent Coalition
50 seats - 26 for a majority
3
10
12
9
8
8
Reform 3Labour 10Conservative 12Lib Dem 9Green 8Other 8
Seat changes since the 4 May 2023 election Reform +3 Green +1 Conservative −1 Other −3
Vote share at the 4 May 2023 election (50 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Conservative29.6%13
Lib Dem22.2%9
Other19.6%11
Labour18.6%10
Green9.9%7
Next election
6 May 2027
all 50 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Conservative 12
14 short of the 26 needed for a majority
Closest result
Independent won by 25 votes over Conservative, 4 May 2023
Latest by-election
Reform gain from Conservative, 10 September 2026 (4 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
52%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BackwellBanwell & WinscombeBlagdon & ChurchillClevedon EastClevedon SouthClevedon WaltonClevedon WestClevedon YeoCongresbury & PuxtonGordano ValleyHutton & LockingLong AshtonNailsea Golden ValleyNailsea West EndNailsea YeoNailsea YoungwoodPillPortishead EastPortishead NorthPortishead SouthPortishead WestWeston-super-Mare CentralWeston-super-Mare HillsideWeston-super-Mare KewstokeWeston-super-Mare Mid WorleWeston-super-Mare MiltonWeston-super-Mare North WorleWeston-super-Mare SouthWeston-super-Mare South WorleWeston-super-Mare UphillWeston-super-Mare WinterstokeWick St Lawrence & St GeorgesWinfordWringtonYatton
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
Backwell
Bridget Petty
4 May 2023
Green 64.3% lead 39.9 pts
Banwell & Winscombe
Joe Tristram, Tom Nicholson
4 May 2023
Green 41.2% lead 8.5 pts
Blagdon & Churchill
Patrick Keating
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 59.1% lead 36.8 pts
Clevedon East
David Shopland
4 May 2023
Independent 30.6% lead 2.1 pts
Clevedon South
Michael Harriott
4 May 2023
Labour 54.4% lead 8.8 pts
Clevedon Walton
Michael Pryke
4 May 2023
Conservative 34.4% lead 8.4 pts
Clevedon West
Luke Smith
4 May 2023
Conservative 39.7% lead 14.8 pts
Clevedon Yeo
Christopher Blades
4 May 2023
Conservative 44.4% lead 6.8 pts
Congresbury & Puxton
Dan Thomas
4 May 2023
Green 60.0% lead 43.3 pts
Gordano Valley
Nigel Ashton
4 May 2023
Conservative 56.0% lead 12.0 pts
Hutton & Locking
Mike Solomon, Will Jones
4 May 2023
Conservative 31.9% lead 7.9 pts
Long Ashton
Mike Dunn, Ashley Cartman
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 34.6% lead 4.0 pts
Nailsea Golden Valley
Andy Cole
4 May 2023
Independent 75.3% lead 62.2 pts
Nailsea West End
Oliver Ellis
4 May 2023
Conservative 53.5% lead 26.6 pts
Nailsea Yeo
Mike Bird
4 May 2023
Independent 55.0% lead 30.1 pts
Nailsea Youngwood
Clare Hunt
4 May 2023
Labour 51.7% lead 3.4 pts
Pill
Jenna Ho Marris
4 May 2023
Green 48.6% lead 14.7 pts
Portishead East
Caritas Charles, Roger Whitfield
4 May 2023
Portishead Independents 45.0% lead 15.9 pts
Portishead North
Timothy Snaden
4 May 2023
Portishead Independents 49.7% lead 22.5 pts
Portishead South
Peter Burden
4 May 2023
Conservative 33.8% lead 6.7 pts
Portishead West
Sue Mason, Nicola Holland
4 May 2023
Portishead Independents 33.4% lead 5.1 pts
Weston-super-Mare Central
Robert Payne, Mike Bell
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 52.1% lead 29.9 pts
Weston-super-Mare Hillside
John Crockford-Hawley, Mark Canniford
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 68.7% lead 52.7 pts
Weston-super-Mare Kewstoke
Lisa Pilgrim, Martin Williams
4 May 2023
Conservative 41.3% lead 4.4 pts
Weston-super-Mare Mid Worle
Jemma Coles
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 37.3% lead 4.3 pts
Weston-super-Mare Milton
Richard Tucker, Catherine Gibbons
4 May 2023
Labour 57.6% lead 29.5 pts
Weston-super-Mare North Worle
Marc Aplin, Marcia Pepperall
4 May 2023
Conservative 49.7% lead 24.3 pts
Weston-super-Mare South
James Clayton, Ian Parker
4 May 2023
Labour 69.8% lead 54.0 pts
Weston-super-Mare South Worle
Peter Crew, Hugh Malyan
4 May 2023
Labour 38.7% lead 0.5 pts
Weston-super-Mare Uphill
Helen Thornton, Peter Bryant
4 May 2023
Labour 28.7% lead 1.5 pts
Weston-super-Mare Winterstoke
Annabelle Chard, Ciaran Cronnelly
4 May 2023
Labour 39.5% lead 22.1 pts
Wick St Lawrence & St Georges
Stuart Davies
4 May 2023
Independent 41.5% lead 18.0 pts
Winford
Annemieke Waite
4 May 2023
Green 58.6% lead 17.2 pts
Wrington
Thomas Daw
4 May 2023
Independent 77.9% lead 55.8 pts
Yatton
Steve Bridger, Wendy Griggs
4 May 2023
Independent 32.4% lead 3.1 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Hutton & LockingMike SolomonIndependent 2023Lib Dem
Nailsea Golden ValleyAndy ColeIndependent 2023Reform
Wick St Lawrence & St GeorgesStuart DaviesIndependent 2023Reform

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
10 September 2026Hutton & LockingReform gain from Conservative38.5%
5 February 2026Clevedon SouthLabour hold29.0%
13 November 2025Long AshtonGreen hold56.0%
18 November 2023WringtonGreen gain from Independent32.7%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Weston-super-Mare46%Labour 34%
North Somerset43%LabourLabour 36%
Wells and Mendip Hills12%Lib DemLib Dem 36%

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 North Somerset

216,733 residents in 94,631 households

Voted Leave in 2016
52% same as GB
Degree or higher
34% same as GB
No qualifications
15% 3 below GB
Own their home
72% 11 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
9% 8 below GB
Rent privately
18% 2 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
24% 7 below GB
Aged 65 and over
29% 7 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.