Council profile

Windsor and Maidenhead

Data through 26 October 2026

Unitary authority · South East · 41 seats in 19 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 6 May 2027

Liberal Democrats have a majority on Windsor and Maidenhead Council. The council has 41 councillors in 19 wards. Seats by party: Lib Dem 21, Other 11, Conservative 8, Reform 1. The next election is on 6 May 2027.

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Majority)
41 seats - 21 for a majority
1
8
21
11
Reform 1Conservative 8Lib Dem 21Other 11
Seat changes since the 4 May 2023 election Reform +1 Conservative +1 Lib Dem −1 Other −1
Vote share at the 4 May 2023 election (41 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Lib Dem41.0%22
Conservative25.6%7
Other21.3%12
Labour8.9%0
Green2.9%0
Reform0.3%0
Next election
6 May 2027
all 41 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Lib Dem 21
majority of 1; 21 needed
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 14 votes over Lib Dem, 4 May 2023
Latest by-election
Conservative hold, 24 September 2026 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
46%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Ascot & SunninghillBelmontBisham & CookhamBoyn HillBrayClewer & Dedworth EastClewer & Dedworth WestClewer EastCox GreenDatchet, Horton & WraysburyEton & CastleFurze PlattHurley & WalthamsOld WindsorOldfieldPinkneys GreenRiversideSt Mary'sSunningdale & Cheapside
ConservativeLib DemOther

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
Ascot & Sunninghill
Julian Sharpe, Sally Coneron, Asghar Majeed
4 May 2023
Conservative 40.1% lead 8.8 pts
Belmont
Siân Martin, Simon Bond
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 68.7% lead 47.7 pts
Bisham & Cookham
Mandy Brar, Mark Howard
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 77.2% lead 57.9 pts
Boyn Hill
Adam Bermange, George Shaw
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 63.8% lead 36.1 pts
Bray
Suzanne Cross, Clare Stuart-Adams
4 May 2023
the Borough first Independents 42.3% lead 7.5 pts
Clewer & Dedworth East
Helen Price, Alison Carpenter
4 May 2023
the Borough first Independents 59.6% lead 40.5 pts
Clewer & Dedworth West
Wisdom Da Costa, Carole Da Costa
4 May 2023
West Windsor Residents Association 28.0% lead 4.7 pts
Clewer East
Karen Davies, Amy Tisi
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 78.5% lead 57.0 pts
Cox Green
Chris Moriarty, Gary Reeves
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 65.3% lead 38.9 pts
Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury
David Buckley, Jodie Grove, Ewan Larcombe
4 May 2023
National Flood Prevention Party 28.7% lead 0.7 pts
Eton & Castle
Mark Wilson, Devon Davies, Julian Tisi
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 51.5% lead 24.2 pts
Furze Platt
Catherine Del Campo, Joshua Reynolds
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 64.9% lead 41.2 pts
Hurley & Walthams
George Blundell, Maureen Hunt
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 44.1% lead 0.9 pts
Old Windsor
Neil Knowles, Lynne Jones
4 May 2023
Old Windsor Residents Association 72.9% lead 58.8 pts
Oldfield
Helen Taylor, Geoff Hill
4 May 2023
the Borough first Independents 49.4% lead 13.8 pts
Pinkneys Green
Clive Baskerville, Simon Werner
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 77.5% lead 62.5 pts
Riverside
Richard Coe, Kashmir Singh
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 60.1% lead 31.3 pts
St Mary's
Jack Douglas, Gurch Singh
4 May 2023
Lib Dem 61.0% lead 36.8 pts
Sunningdale & Cheapside
Sayonara Luxton, Genevieve Gosling
4 May 2023
Conservative 42.7% lead 9.4 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
BraySuzanne Crossthe Borough first Independents 2023Conservative
Datchet, Horton & WraysburyDavid Buckleythe Borough first Independents 2023Reform
OldfieldGeoff Hillthe Borough first Independents 2023Lib Dem
RiversideKashmir SinghLib Dem 2023Independent
St Mary'sJack DouglasLib Dem 2023the Borough first

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
24 September 2026BrayConservative hold36.1%
17 October 2024Ascot & SunninghillConservative hold58.5%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Maidenhead55%Lib DemLib Dem 41%
Windsor45%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.

Who lives in Windsor and Maidenhead

153,496 residents in 60,931 households

Voted Leave in 2016
46% 6 below GB
Degree or higher
45% 11 above GB
No qualifications
13% 5 below GB
Own their home
66% 5 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
12% 5 below GB
Rent privately
21% 1 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
26% 5 below GB
Aged 65 and over
22% same as 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.

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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.