Council profile

Nottinghamshire

Data through 26 October 2026

County council · East Midlands · 66 seats in 56 divisions · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

Reform UK have a majority on Nottinghamshire County Council. The council has 66 councillors in 56 divisions. Seats by party: Reform 41, Conservative 18, Labour 4, Other 3. The next election is on 3 May 2029.

A government plan to replace the councils in this area with two 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)
66 seats - 34 for a majority
41
4
18
3
Reform 41Labour 4Conservative 18Other 3
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (64 seats in 55 wards)
ShareSeats won
Reform35.3%40
Conservative21.5%17
Labour18.2%4
Other8.9%2
Green6.3%0
Lib Dem5.2%0
Ashfield Independents4.6%1
Next election
3 May 2029
all 66 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Reform 41
majority of 16; 34 needed
Closest result
Conservative won by 1 vote over Reform, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Conservative hold, 29 October 2026 (4 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
60%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Arnold NorthArnold SouthAshfieldsBaldertonBeeston Central & RylandsBingham EastBingham WestBlidworthBlyth & HarworthBramcote & Beeston NorthCalvertonCarlton EastCarlton WestCollinghamCotgraveEastwoodFarndon & TrentGreasley & BrinsleyHucknall NorthHucknall SouthHucknall WestKeyworthKirkby NorthKirkby SouthLeake & RuddingtonMansfield EastMansfield NorthMansfield SouthMansfield WestMistertonMuskham & FarnsfieldNewark EastNewark WestNewsteadNuthall & KimberleyOllertonRadcliffe on TrentRetford EastRetford WestSelstonSherwood ForestSouthwellStapleford & Broxtowe CentralSutton Central & EastSutton NorthSutton WestToton, Chilwell & AttenboroughTuxfordWarsopWest Bridgford NorthWest Bridgford SouthWest Bridgford WestWorksop EastWorksop NorthWorksop SouthWorksop West
LabourConservativeReformIndependentOtherSplit evenly

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
Arnold North
Wendy Lukacs, John Semens
1 May 2025
Reform 38.6% lead 8.9 pts
Arnold South
John Clarke, Liz Clunie
1 May 2025
Labour 36.0% lead 7.0 pts
Ashfields
Alan Bite
1 May 2025
Reform 51.5% lead 20.5 pts
Balderton
Johno Lee
1 May 2025
Conservative 45.5% lead 20.6 pts
Beeston Central & Rylands
Teresa Cullen
1 May 2025
Broxtowe Alliance 26.9% lead 0.7 pts
Bingham East
Stephen Pearson
1 May 2025
Conservative 32.6% lead 3.9 pts
Bingham West
Neil Clarke
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.3% lead 13.4 pts
Blidworth
Richard Ward
1 May 2025
Reform 40.7% lead 7.5 pts
Blyth & Harworth
Hana John
1 May 2025
Reform 49.6% lead 15.2 pts
Bramcote & Beeston North
Steve Carr
1 May 2025
Broxtowe Independent Group 47.5% lead 33.8 pts
Calverton
Jody Stoll
1 May 2025
Reform 29.3% lead 4.0 pts
Carlton East
Mike Adams
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.4% lead 13.6 pts
Carlton West
Paul Brill, Jim Vernon
1 May 2025
Reform 37.8% lead 11.9 pts
Collingham
Janette Barlow
1 May 2025
Conservative 29.2% lead 0.5 pts
Cotgrave
Richard Butler
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.5% lead 14.1 pts
Eastwood
James Walker-Gurley
1 May 2025
Reform 42.4% lead 13.7 pts
Farndon & Trent
Sue Saddington
1 May 2025
Conservative 37.7% lead 11.3 pts
Greasley & Brinsley
Glyn Pepper
1 May 2025
Reform 44.4% lead 26.1 pts
Hucknall North
John Wilmott
1 May 2025
Ashfield Independents 39.8% lead 7.4 pts
Hucknall South
Richard Darrington
1 May 2025
Reform 40.8% lead 6.6 pts
Hucknall West
Christopher Adegoke
1 May 2025
Reform 38.9% lead 11.7 pts
Keyworth
John Cottee
1 May 2025
Conservative 44.0% lead 26.1 pts
Kirkby North
Simon Wright
1 May 2025
Reform 52.1% lead 16.2 pts
Kirkby South
Rory Green
1 May 2025
Reform 55.8% lead 32.6 pts
Leake & Ruddington
Andy Brown, Stuart Matthews
1 May 2025
Conservative 26.9% lead 4.5 pts
Mansfield East
Mick Barton, Martin Wright
1 May 2025
Reform 60.1% lead 44.5 pts
Mansfield North
Gaynor Mann, David Smith
12 June 2025
Reform 59.3% lead 35.0 pts
Mansfield South
Kevin Brown, Faz Choudhury
1 May 2025
Reform 30.5% lead 7.0 pts
Mansfield West
Barry Answer, Brian Wheatcroft
1 May 2025
Reform 51.3% lead 34.9 pts
Misterton
Mike Robertson
1 May 2025
Reform 45.5% lead 15.6 pts
Muskham & Farnsfield
Bruce Laughton
1 May 2025
Conservative 38.5% lead 4.0 pts
Newark East
Sam Smith
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.9% lead 8.8 pts
Newark West
Keith Girling
1 May 2025
Reform 35.9% lead 6.0 pts
Newstead
Stuart Bestwick
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.9% lead 1 vote
Nuthall & Kimberley
James Rawson
1 May 2025
Reform 33.9% lead 4.6 pts
Ollerton
David Clark
1 May 2025
Reform 51.5% lead 26.9 pts
Radcliffe on Trent
Roger Upton
1 May 2025
Conservative 44.7% lead 17.9 pts
Retford East
Mike Introna
1 May 2025
Conservative 37.8% lead 5.2 pts
Retford West
Daniel Saban
1 May 2025
Reform 37.9% lead 12.1 pts
Selston
Dawn Justice
1 May 2025
Reform 57.0% lead 29.5 pts
Sherwood Forest
James Gamble
1 May 2025
Reform 44.8% lead 13.1 pts
Southwell
Vacant
1 May 2025
Conservative 37.5% lead 13.3 pts
Stapleford & Broxtowe Central
John Doddy, Jan Goold
1 May 2025
Reform 31.0% lead 14.3 pts
Sutton Central & East
Joseph Rich
1 May 2025
Reform 51.7% lead 21.8 pts
Sutton North
Cathy Mason
1 May 2025
Reform 59.0% lead 33.8 pts
Sutton West
Terry Cox
1 May 2025
Reform 53.3% lead 19.8 pts
Toton, Chilwell & Attenborough
Richard Lowe, Helen Faccio
1 May 2025
Reform 21.6% lead 1.5 pts
Tuxford
Warren Limber
1 May 2025
Reform 42.0% lead 6.7 pts
Warsop
Andy McCormack
1 May 2025
Reform 53.7% lead 26.3 pts
West Bridgford North
Penny Gowland
1 May 2025
Labour 36.3% lead 6.2 pts
West Bridgford South
Jonathan Wheeler
1 May 2025
Conservative 50.9% lead 28.7 pts
West Bridgford West
Hari Om
1 May 2025
Conservative 42.6% lead 20.6 pts
Worksop East
Russell Dodd
1 May 2025
Reform 52.7% lead 21.5 pts
Worksop North
Kev Dale
1 May 2025
Reform 47.2% lead 23.6 pts
Worksop South
Kelvin Wright
1 May 2025
Reform 47.1% lead 19.1 pts
Worksop West
Bert Bingham
1 May 2025
Reform 52.3% lead 27.9 pts

Changed party since the election

1 councillor now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Hucknall NorthJohn WilmottAshfield Independents 2025Independent

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
29 October 2026SouthwellConservative hold45.3%
3 July 2025Newark WestConservative gain from Reform35.0%
27 May 2023Kirkby-in-Ashfield SouthOther hold
3 November 2022EastwoodIndependent gain from Conservative

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Gedling13%LabourLabour 35%
Mansfield13%LabourReform 34%
Newark12%ConservativeConservative 34%
Sherwood Forest12%LabourReform 32%
Bassetlaw12%LabourLabour 34%
Broxtowe12%LabourLabour 32%
Rushcliffe12%LabourLabour 43%
Ashfield11%ReformReform 40%
Nottingham North and Kimberley2%LabourLabour 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 Nottinghamshire

824,796 residents in 357,145 households

Voted Leave in 2016
60% 8 above GB
Degree or higher
30% 4 below GB
No qualifications
19% 1 above GB
Own their home
70% 9 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
13% 4 below GB
Rent privately
17% 3 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.