Council profile

West Surrey

Data through 26 October 2026

Unitary authority (shadow authority until 1 April 2027) · South East · 90 seats in 45 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 1 May 2031

Liberal Democrats have a majority on West Surrey Council. The council has 90 councillors in 45 wards. Seats by party: Lib Dem 56, Conservative 20, Reform 8, Other 6. The next election is on 1 May 2031.

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Majority)
90 seats - 46 for a majority
8
20
56
6
Reform 8Conservative 20Lib Dem 56Other 6
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election Other +1 Reform −1
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (90 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Lib Dem34.2%56
Conservative23.9%20
Reform19.5%9
Green9.2%0
Other8.9%5
Labour4.4%0

2026 election results for West Surrey, ward by ward

Next election
1 May 2031
all 90 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Lib Dem 56
majority of 22; 46 needed
Closest result
Lib Dem won the last seat by 11 votes over Conservative, 7 May 2026
Constituencies
2024Now

Who holds each ward

AddlestoneAshAshfordBagshot, Windlesham & ChobhamCamberley EastCamberley West & FrimleyChertseyCranleigh & EwhurstEghamEnglefield Green & Virginia WaterFarnham CentralFarnham NorthFarnham SouthFrimley Green & MytchettGodalming NorthGodalming South, Milford & WitleyGoldsworth East & Horsell VillageGuildford EastGuildford NorthGuildford South EastGuildford South WestGuildford WestHaslemereHeatherside & ParksideHorsleysKnaphill & Goldsworth WestLaleham & SheppertonLightwater, West End & BisleyLower Sunbury & HallifordShalfordShereStainesStaines South & Ashford WestStanwell, Stanwell Moor & Ashford NorthSunbury Common & Ashford CommonThe ByfleetsThorpe, Longcross & OttershawWaverley Eastern VillagesWaverley Western VillagesWoking NorthWoking SouthWoking South EastWoking South WestWoodham & New HawWorplesdon
ConservativeLib DemReformIndependentOther

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
Addlestone
Vinny Mitchell, Scott Kelly
7 May 2026
Reform 31.9% lead 7.4 pts
Ash
Phil Bellamy, Carla Morson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 36.9% lead 11.8 pts
Ashford
Joanne Sexton, Richard Barratt
7 May 2026
Independent 27.2% lead 5.9 pts
Bagshot, Windlesham & Chobham
Simon Browne, Richard Wilson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 40.1% lead 13.5 pts
Camberley East
Jamie Calder, Ying Perrett
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 36.5% lead 5.6 pts
Camberley West & Frimley
Sarbie Kang, Alan Ashbery
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.7% lead 18.5 pts
Chertsey
Shannon Saise-Marshall, Mark Nuti
7 May 2026
Conservative 38.6% lead 12.2 pts
Cranleigh & Ewhurst
Liz Townsend, Brian Steel
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.5% lead 27.1 pts
Egham
Isabel Mullens, George Gladstone-New
7 May 2026
Runnymede Independent Residents' Group 23.9% lead 2.1 pts
Englefield Green & Virginia Water
Marisa Heath, Chis Howorth
7 May 2026
Conservative 43.4% lead 16.7 pts
Farnham Central
Richard Steijger, Tony Fairclough
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 33.2% lead 8.1 pts
Farnham North
Catherine Powell, Sally Dickson
7 May 2026
Farnham Residents 38.4% lead 18.4 pts
Farnham South
Benjamin Bristow, Sally Shorthose
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 28.5% lead 5.6 pts
Frimley Green & Mytchett
Paul Deach, Jacques Olmo
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.0% lead 2.1 pts
Godalming North
Ruth Thompson, Penny Rivers
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 44.9% lead 19.3 pts
Godalming South, Milford & Witley
Victoria Kiehl, Paul Follows
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.2% lead 18.2 pts
Goldsworth East & Horsell Village
John Morley, Lance Spencer
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 56.0% lead 41.2 pts
Guildford East
George Potter, Joanne Shaw
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.3% lead 28.1 pts
Guildford North
Katie Steel, Masuk Miah
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.8% lead 18.5 pts
Guildford South East
James Thornton, Vanessa King
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.4% lead 18.2 pts
Guildford South West
Stephen Hives, Angela Goodwin
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 51.0% lead 28.3 pts
Guildford West
Julia McShane, James Steel
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 37.9% lead 18.1 pts
Haslemere
Oli Leach, Terry Weldon
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.0% lead 22.6 pts
Heatherside & Parkside
Nirmal Kang, Rob Lee
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 47.9% lead 22.1 pts
Horsleys
David Evans, Catherine Young
7 May 2026
Residents for Guildford and Villages 31.6% lead 6.8 pts
Knaphill & Goldsworth West
Ann-Marie Barker, Steve Greentree
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 41.7% lead 23.4 pts
Laleham & Shepperton
Maureen Attewell, Sinead Mooney
7 May 2026
Conservative 45.9% lead 20.1 pts
Lightwater, West End & Bisley
Julie Hoad, Shaun MacDonald
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 41.7% lead 18.7 pts
Lower Sunbury & Halliford
Paul Vanni, Richard Herman
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 33.0% lead 2.8 pts
Shalford
Sallie Barker, Matt Furniss
7 May 2026
Conservative 41.5% lead 13.9 pts
Shere
Bob Hughes, Victoria Sena
7 May 2026
Conservative 43.3% lead 18.7 pts
Staines
Laura Barker, Chris Bateson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 35.5% lead 14.1 pts
Staines South & Ashford West
Harleen Boparai, Pahil Basey
7 May 2026
Reform 27.0% lead 0.6 pts
Stanwell, Stanwell Moor & Ashford North
Harry Phillips, Jim McIlroy
7 May 2026
Reform 38.4% lead 13.0 pts
Sunbury Common & Ashford Common
Harry Boparai, Rory O’Brien
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 34.2% lead 8.5 pts
The Byfleets
Liam Lyons, Ian Richardson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 28.6% lead 5.4 pts
Thorpe, Longcross & Ottershaw
Carl Mann, Jonathan Hulley
7 May 2026
Reform 30.1% lead 1.8 pts
Waverley Eastern Villages
Kevin Deanus, Jane Austin
7 May 2026
Conservative 53.9% lead 26.7 pts
Waverley Western Villages
Keith Buchanan, Phoebe Sullivan
7 May 2026
Conservative 31.8% lead 0.3 pts
Woking North
Attia Aslam, Zafar Rasab
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 43.5% lead 25.4 pts
Woking South
Ian Johnson, Louise Morales
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 56.4% lead 38.3 pts
Woking South East
Peter Graves, Ellen Nicholson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 54.8% lead 37.3 pts
Woking South West
Dale Roberts, Leslie Rice
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.8% lead 22.3 pts
Woodham & New Haw
Scott Lewis, Josh Brown
7 May 2026
Conservative 38.9% lead 8.7 pts
Worplesdon
Bilal Akhtar, Jonathan Lord
7 May 2026
Conservative 35.7% lead 6.4 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Stanwell, Stanwell Moor & Ashford NorthJim McIlroyReform 2026Independent

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Woking16%Lib DemLib Dem 42%
Godalming and Ash15%ConservativeConservative 42%
Spelthorne15%ConservativeConservative 33%
Guildford15%Lib DemLib Dem 46%
Surrey Heath15%Lib DemConservative 35%
Runnymede and Weybridge11%ConservativeConservative 37%
Farnham and Bordon10%ConservativeConservative 36%
Windsor2%ConservativeConservative 34%

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.

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.