Council profile

Worcestershire

Data through 26 October 2026

County council · West Midlands · 57 seats in 53 divisions · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

Worcestershire County Council is run by a Green / Conservative / Liberal Democrats / Independent coalition. The council has 57 councillors in 53 divisions. Seats by party: Reform 21, Conservative 13, Other 7, Lib Dem 7, Green 7, Labour 2. 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

Green / Conservative / Liberal Democrats / Independent Coalition
57 seats - 29 for a majority
21
2
13
7
7
7
Reform 21Labour 2Conservative 13Lib Dem 7Green 7Other 7
Seat changes since the 1 May 2025 election Other +5 Conservative +1 Lib Dem +1 Green −1 Reform −6
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (57 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Reform30.7%27
Conservative25.5%12
Green14.4%8
Lib Dem12.9%6
Labour11.4%2
Other5.2%2
Next election
3 May 2029
all 57 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Reform 21
8 short of the 29 needed for a majority
Closest result
Green won by 1 vote over Reform, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Lib Dem gain from Reform, 30 October 2025 (5 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
57%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AlvechurchBeaconBedwardineBewdleyBowbrookBredonBroadwayBromsgrove CentralBromsgrove EastBromsgrove SouthBromsgrove WestChaddesleyClainesClent HillsCookley, Wolverley & WribbenhallCroomeDroitwich EastDroitwich WestEvesham North WestEvesham SouthHallowHarvingtonLittletonsMalvern ChaseMalvern LanglandMalvern LinkMalvern TrinityNunneryOmbersleyPershorePowick & LongdonRainbow Hill & Fort RoyalRedditch CentralRedditch EastRedditch SouthRedditch WestRiversideSt BarnabasSt ChadsSt GeorgesSt JohnSt JohnsSt PeterSt PetersSt StephenStourport Areley Kings & RiversideStourport MittonTenburyUpton SnodsburyWarndon & Elbury ParkWarndon VillagesWoodvaleWythall
LabourConservativeLib DemReformGreenIndependent

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
Alvechurch
Alan Bailes
1 May 2025
Independent 34.5% lead 9.3 pts
Beacon
Peter Turner
1 May 2025
Reform 33.6% lead 7.5 pts
Bedwardine
Alan Amos
1 May 2025
Reform 41.5% lead 17.7 pts
Bewdley
Dan Morehead
1 May 2025
Conservative 40.5% lead 5.7 pts
Bowbrook
Seb James
1 May 2025
Conservative 35.1% lead 3.0 pts
Bredon
Adrian Hardman
1 May 2025
Conservative 32.8% lead 0.3 pts
Broadway
Emma Kearsey
1 May 2025
Conservative 33.4% lead 1.1 pts
Bromsgrove Central
Josh Robinson
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 47.6% lead 19.0 pts
Bromsgrove East
Sam Evans
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 38.6% lead 13.8 pts
Bromsgrove South
Sam Ammar
1 May 2025
Reform 34.8% lead 3.2 pts
Bromsgrove West
Nik Price
1 May 2025
Reform 37.1% lead 12.4 pts
Chaddesley
Marcus Hart
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.7% lead 2.6 pts
Claines
Mel Allcott
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 54.0% lead 35.6 pts
Clent Hills
Karen May
1 May 2025
Conservative 39.5% lead 9.8 pts
Cookley, Wolverley & Wribbenhall
Jenny Shaw
1 May 2025
Reform 38.4% lead 5.0 pts
Croome
Martin Allen
1 May 2025
Green 63.5% lead 45.5 pts
Droitwich East
Dan Birch
1 May 2025
Conservative 43.1% lead 19.4 pts
Droitwich West
Richard Morris
1 May 2025
Conservative 49.2% lead 19.7 pts
Evesham North West
Sam Bastow
1 May 2025
Reform 39.0% lead 9.5 pts
Evesham South
Michele Hulme
1 May 2025
Reform 33.9% lead 11.6 pts
Hallow
Mel Fordington
1 May 2025
Conservative 30.1% lead 1.4 pts
Harvington
Satinder Bell
1 May 2025
Reform 35.1% lead 1.6 pts
Littletons
Hannah Robson
1 May 2025
Green 31.6% lead 1 vote
Malvern Chase
Malcolm Victory
1 May 2025
Green 48.8% lead 28.6 pts
Malvern Langland
Paul Bennett
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 28.8% lead 8.3 pts
Malvern Link
Chris McSweeny
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 28.0% lead 4.1 pts
Malvern Trinity
Natalie McVey
1 May 2025
Green 52.5% lead 35.4 pts
Nunnery
Dave Aubrey
1 May 2025
Reform 30.5% lead 2.3 pts
Ombersley
Tony Miller
1 May 2025
Conservative 40.8% lead 1.4 pts
Pershore
Dan Boatright-Greene
1 May 2025
Lib Dem 60.7% lead 38.8 pts
Powick & Longdon
Tom Wells
1 May 2025
Independent 65.1% lead 46.6 pts
Rainbow Hill & Fort Royal
Jabba Riaz
1 May 2025
Labour 32.6% lead 1.1 pts
Redditch Central
Dave Edmonds, Richard Tudge
1 May 2025
Reform 37.5% lead 11.8 pts
Redditch East
Jo Monk, David Taylor
1 May 2025
Reform 44.6% lead 20.8 pts
Redditch South
Roger Bennett, Sue Eacock
1 May 2025
Reform 38.5% lead 11.6 pts
Redditch West
Ashley Monk, Stephen Foster
1 May 2025
Reform 33.7% lead 4.8 pts
Riverside
Tor Pingree
1 May 2025
Green 44.1% lead 19.1 pts
St Barnabas
Anthony Upton
1 May 2025
Reform 41.9% lead 10.9 pts
St Chads
Bill Hopkins
1 May 2025
Reform 36.6% lead 10.0 pts
St Georges
Mark Crosby
1 May 2025
Reform 40.8% lead 25.3 pts
St John
Richard Udall
1 May 2025
Labour 41.8% lead 15.1 pts
St Johns
Matthew Jones
1 May 2025
Reform 36.5% lead 12.5 pts
St Peter
Louis Stephen
1 May 2025
Green 51.6% lead 27.7 pts
St Peters
Rob Wharton
1 May 2025
Reform 35.4% lead 8.2 pts
St Stephen
Matt Jenkins
1 May 2025
Green 61.0% lead 41.3 pts
Stourport Areley Kings & Riverside
Karl Perks
1 May 2025
Reform 45.6% lead 22.0 pts
Stourport Mitton
Ian Cresswell
1 May 2025
Reform 42.4% lead 18.0 pts
Tenbury
Justin Bowen
1 May 2025
Reform 39.0% lead 4.1 pts
Upton Snodsbury
Linda Robinson
1 May 2025
Conservative 41.7% lead 15.5 pts
Warndon & Elbury Park
Owen Cleary
1 May 2025
Reform 49.6% lead 24.4 pts
Warndon Villages
Andrew Cross
1 May 2025
Green 43.5% lead 21.3 pts
Woodvale
Mark Dunkley
1 May 2025
Reform 43.6% lead 9.0 pts
Wythall
Adam Kent
1 May 2025
Conservative 50.2% lead 25.4 pts

Changed party since the election

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

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Bromsgrove SouthSam AmmarLib Dem 2025Independent
CroomeMartin AllenGreen 2025Lib Dem
Redditch EastDavid TaylorReform 2025Independent
Redditch WestAshley MonkReform 2025Independent
St JohnsMatthew JonesReform 2025Independent
Stourport Areley Kings & RiversideKarl PerksReform 2025Conservative

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
30 October 2025Bromsgrove SouthLib Dem gain from Reform52.0%
9 May 2024Evesham North WestConservative hold
21 October 2023Warndon ParishGreen gain from Conservative
27 May 2023Malvern ChaseGreen gain from Lib Dem
27 September 2022Arrow Valley WestLabour gain from Conservative

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Wyre Forest18%ConservativeReform 31%
Redditch17%LabourReform 29%
Worcester17%LabourLabour 32%
Bromsgrove16%ConservativeConservative 33%
Droitwich and Evesham16%ConservativeConservative 39%
West Worcestershire16%ConservativeConservative 35%

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 Worcestershire

603,677 residents in 259,981 households

Voted Leave in 2016
57% 5 above GB
Degree or higher
32% 2 below GB
No qualifications
18% same as GB
Own their home
69% 8 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
15% 2 below GB
Rent privately
15% 5 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
26% 5 below GB
Aged 65 and over
27% 5 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.