Woking Council - Wards and Councillors

District council · South East · 30 seats in 10 wards

Liberal Democrats have a majority on Woking Council. The council has 30 councillors in 10 wards. Seats by party: Lib Dem 22, Other 6, Labour 1.

Woking Council will be abolished on 1 April 2027 under local government reorganisation, and will hold no further elections. Its area now elects West Surrey, a new council elected in May 2026. See West Surrey

Control

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Majority)

30 seats - 16 for a majority

Labour 1Lib Dem 22Other 6Vacant 1

Vote share at the 2 May 2024 election (11 seats, all wards)

ShareSeats won

Lib Dem52.6%10

Conservative25.5%0

Labour13.1%0

Other6.3%1

Green1.8%0

Reform0.8%0

Largest party

Lib Dem 22

majority of 14; 16 needed

Closest result

Canalside

Lib Dem won by 29 votes over Labour, 2 May 2024

Latest by-election

Hoe Valley

Lib Dem hold, 10 July 2025 (1 since 2021)

Constituencies

1 overlap

2024Now

Voted Leave in 2016

44%

GB 52%

Wards

Who holds each ward

Lib DemIndependent

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.

All 10 wards

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillors	Last election
Byfleet & West Byfleet Steve Howes, Daryl Jordan, Amanda Boote	2 May 2024 Independent 44.7% lead 10.4 pts
Canalside Faisal Mumtaz, Anila Javaid, M Ilyas Raja	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 42.2% lead 1.0 pts
Goldsworth Park Ann-Marie Barker, Stephen Oades, Martin Sullivan	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 68.5% lead 52.0 pts
Heathlands Guy Cosnahan, Pav Pandher, Leslie Rice	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 51.4% lead 22.5 pts
Hoe Valley Louise Morales, Deborah Hughes, Vacant	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 71.3% lead 55.0 pts
Horsell Swati Mukherjee, John Morley, Melisa Kuipers	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 66.7% lead 44.9 pts
Knaphill Steve Greentree, John Pearce, Hassan Akberali	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 46.8% lead 6.5 pts
Mount Hermon Liam Lyons, Ian Johnson, Ellen Nicholson	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 61.6% lead 41.5 pts
Pyrford Attia Aslam, Peter Graves, Chris Martin	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 51.0% lead 12.8 pts
St John's Tom Spenser, Dale Roberts, Rob Leach	2 May 2024 Lib Dem 66.9% lead 49.5 pts

Byfleet & West Byfleet

Amanda Boote IndependentDaryl Jordan IndependentSteve Howes Independent

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Independent44.7%

Conservative34.3%

Lib Dem11.3%

Labour9.8%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Steve Howes Elected	Independent	1,383	44.7%
Josh Brown	Conservative	1,062	34.3%
Erica Maya Singharay	Lib Dem	349	11.3%
Oliver Martin Lester	Labour	302	9.8%

Canalside

Anila Javaid LabourFaisal Mumtaz Lib DemM Ilyas Raja Independent

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem42.2%

Labour41.2%

Conservative13.9%

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition2.8%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Faisal Mumtaz Elected	Lib Dem	1,224	42.2%
Tahir Aziz	Labour	1,195	41.2%
Trevor William Leek	Conservative	402	13.9%
Eleanor Waple	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	80	2.8%

Goldsworth Park

Ann-Marie Barker Lib DemMartin Sullivan Lib DemStephen Oades Independent

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem68.5%

Conservative16.5%

Labour15.0%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ann-Marie Barker Elected	Lib Dem	1,505	68.5%
Debbie Harlow	Conservative	362	16.5%
Chris Martin	Labour	329	15.0%

Heathlands

Guy Cosnahan Lib DemLeslie Rice Lib DemPav Pandher Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem51.4%

Conservative28.9%

Reform7.8%

Labour6.3%

Green4.7%

Heritage Party1.0%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Pav Pandher Elected	Lib Dem	1,484	51.4%
Kevin Mark Davis	Conservative	833	28.9%
Allan Petrie	Reform	224	7.8%
Sebastian Purbrick	Labour	181	6.3%
Paul Jan Hoekstra	Green	136	4.7%
Judith Diana Squire	Heritage Party	28	1.0%

Hoe Valley

Deborah Hughes Lib DemLouise Morales Lib DemVacant Vacant

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024 (2 seats)

Lib Dem71.3%

Conservative16.3%

Labour12.4%

Candidate	Party	Votes
Will Forster Elected	Lib Dem	1,569
Tom Bonsundy-O'Bryan Elected	Lib Dem	1,311
John Frederick Lawrence	Conservative	358
Martin Howard Michael Benstead	Conservative	298
Francis Chidiebere Anyaegbu	Labour	273
Samar Akhlaq Chaudhary	Labour	239

Party shares count each party's leading candidate.

Last by-election, 10 July 2025

Lib Dem62.8%

Reform21.3%

Conservative7.3%

Green4.7%

Labour3.9%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Deborah Elizabeth Hughes Elected	Lib Dem	1,118	62.8%
Sean Crosbie Flude	Reform	379	21.3%
Robert Alan Kwiatkowski	Conservative	130	7.3%
Paul Jan Hoekstra	Green	83	4.7%
Samar Akhlaq Chaudhary	Labour	69	3.9%

Horsell

John Morley Lib DemMelisa Kuipers Lib DemSwati Mukherjee Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem66.7%

Conservative21.8%

Green5.5%

Labour4.9%

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition1.1%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Melisa Jane Kuipers Elected	Lib Dem	2,177	66.7%
Colin Patrick Scott	Conservative	713	21.8%
Christine Murphy	Green	180	5.5%
John Scott-Morgan	Labour	159	4.9%
Emma Catherine Rowena Stephens-Ducros	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	36	1.1%

Knaphill

Hassan Akberali IndependentJohn Pearce Lib DemSteve Greentree Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem46.8%

Conservative40.3%

Labour12.9%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
John Richard Pearce Elected	Lib Dem	1,460	46.8%
Saj Hussain	Conservative	1,257	40.3%
Dan Sampson	Labour	403	12.9%

Mount Hermon

Ellen Nicholson Lib DemIan Johnson Lib DemLiam Lyons Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem61.6%

Conservative20.1%

Labour9.2%

Green6.3%

Heritage Party1.8%

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition1.0%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ellen Nicholson Elected	Lib Dem	1,752	61.6%
Sunny John	Conservative	571	20.1%
Mike Kelly	Labour	263	9.2%
Cecilia Maria Scott	Green	179	6.3%
Richard Peter Farr Squire	Heritage Party	52	1.8%
Ravern Belinda Dimitrii-Simone	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	29	1.0%

Pyrford

Attia Aslam Lib DemChris Martin Lib DemPeter Graves Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem51.0%

Conservative38.2%

Labour10.8%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Attia Aslam Elected	Lib Dem	1,533	51.0%
Steve Dorsett	Conservative	1,148	38.2%
Sean O'Malley	Labour	323	10.8%

St John's

Dale Roberts Lib DemRob Leach Lib DemTom Spenser Lib Dem

Last scheduled election, 2 May 2024

Lib Dem66.9%

Conservative17.4%

Labour9.6%

Heritage Party6.0%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Dale Shaun Roberts Elected	Lib Dem	1,716	66.9%
Ben Edward Maynard	Conservative	447	17.4%
Simona Mirela Popa	Labour	246	9.6%
Tim Read	Heritage Party	155	6.0%

By-elections

Every council by-election since 2021

1 by-election since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

Date	Ward	Result	Winner's share
10 July 2025	Hoe Valley	Lib Dem hold	63.0%

Parliament

Parliamentary constituencies

Constituency	Share of council	2024 winner	Projected now
Woking	100%	Lib Dem	Lib Dem 42%

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.

People

Who lives in Woking

103,938 residents in 41,435 households

Voted Leave in 2016

44% 8 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

28% 3 below GB

Aged 65 and over

20% 2 below 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

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.