The 2025 Wiltshire Council election was held on 1 May 2025, electing members to Wiltshire Council in Wiltshire, England, one of the 2025 United Kingdom local elections. All 98 councillors, one from each division, were elected using the first-past-the-post voting system. Wiltshire was one of eight unitary authorities to hold elections in 2025, after the government delayed local elections in many other areas until 2026 as part of a plan to reorganise local government. The council had a Conservative majority prior to the election. The election saw the council go under no overall control with the Liberal Democrats becoming the largest party.
The Conservatives lost nearly a third of their seats and overall control of the council, bringing an end to 25 years of majority rule. The Liberal Democrats emerged as the largest party on the council for the first time since 1997. Reform UK also experienced a significant increase in representation, winning 10 seats, the party's first-ever seats in the county council's elections. Labour experienced a decline of more than half in their share of the total vote, retaining only a single seat on the council. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2025, Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Thorn was appointed the new leader of the council, leading an administration based on a partnership between the Liberal Democrats and independents.
Previous council composition
Changes
- August 2022: Mary Webb (Conservative) dies â by-election held November 2022
- November 2022: Sam Charleston (Liberal Democrats) gains by-election from Conservatives
- April 2023: Nick Errington (Liberal Democrats) resigns â by-election held June 2023; Jack Oatley (independent) joins Conservatives
- June 2023: Richard Budden (Liberal Democrats) wins by-election
- November 2023: Tony Trotman (Conservative) dies â by-election held February 2024
- January 2024: Bob Jones (Liberal Democrats) dies â by-election held March 2024
- February 2024: Robert Macnaughton (Liberal Democrats) gains by-election from Conservatives
- March 2024: Nick Dye (Liberal Democrats) wins by-election
- April 2024: Edward Kirk (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
- October 2024: Mike Sankey (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
- February 2025: Antonio Piazza (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
Results Summary
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Results by electoral divisions
The electoral division results listed below are based on the changes from the 2021 elections, not taking into account any party defections or by-elections.
Sitting councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).
Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Alderbury and Whiteparish
Amesbury East and Bulford
Amesbury South
Amesbury West
Avon Valley
Bowerhill
Box and Colerne
Bradford-on-Avon North
Bradford-on-Avon South
Brinkworth
Bromham, Rowde and Roundway
By Brook
Calne Central
Calne Chilvester and Abberd
Note: Robert MacNaughton had previously gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats in a 2024 by-election.
Calne North
Calne Rural
Calne South
Chippenham Cepen Park and Derriads
Chippenham Cepen Park and Hunters Moon
Chippenham Hardenhuish
Chippenham Hardens and Central
Chippenham Lowden and Rowden
Chippenham Monkton
Chippenham Pewsham
Chippenham Sheldon
Corsham Ladbrook
Corsham Pickwick
Corsham Without
Cricklade and Latton
Note: Nick Dye had previously held the seat for the Liberal Democrats in a 2024 by-election.
Devizes East
Devizes North
Devizes Rural West
Devizes South
Downton and Ebble Valley
Durrington
Ethandune
Fovant and Chalke Valley
Hilperton
Holt
Kington
Laverstock
Ludgershall North and Rural
Lyneham
Malmesbury
Marlborough East
Marlborough West
Melksham East
Melksham Forest
Melksham South
Melksham Without North and Shurnhold
Melksham Without West and Rural
Mere
Minety
Nadder Valley
Old Sarum and Lower Bourne Valley
Pewsey
Pewsey Vale East
Pewsey Vale West
Purton
Redlynch and Landford
Royal Wootton Bassett East
Royal Wootton Bassett North
Royal Wootton Bassett South and West
Salisbury Bemerton Heath
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village
Salisbury Harnham East
Salisbury Harnham West
Salisbury Milford
Salisbury St Edmund's
Salisbury St Francis and Stratford
Salisbury St Paul's
Note: Sam Charleston had previously gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats in a 2022 by-election.
Sherston
Southwick
The Lavingtons
Tidworth East and Ludgershall South
Tidworth North and West
Till Valley
Tisbury
Trowbridge Adcroft
Trowbridge Central
Trowbridge Drynham
Trowbridge Grove
Trowbridge Lambrok
Trowbridge Park
Trowbridge Paxcroft
Urchfont and Bishops Cannings
Warminster Broadway
Warminster East
Warminster North and Rural
Warminster West
Westbury East
Westbury North
Westbury West
Wilton
Winsley and Westwood
Winterslow and Upper Bourne Valley
Wylye Valley
See also
References
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