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2025 Worcestershire County Council election

The 2025 Worcestershire County Council election took place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Worcestershire County Council in Worcestershire, England as part of the 2025 UK local elections. All 57 seats were elected. The council was under Conservative majority control prior to the election. The election saw the council go under no overall control, with Reform UK emerging as the largest party. They subsequently formed a minority administration.

Background

In the 2021 election, the Conservatives won 45 seats, giving them a majority and control of the council. The Liberal Democrats were the second biggest party with 4 seats, followed by Labour with 3 seats and the Greens with 2 seats. Two seats were won by independent candidates: Beverley Nielsen in Malvern Langland and Tom Wells in Powick.

Several by-elections took place between the 2021 and 2025 elections:

After being elected, councillor Bill Hopkins of St Chads left the Conservatives and joined Reform UK.

Previous council composition

Changes

  • July 2022: Aled Evans (Conservative) resigns – by-election held September 2022
  • September 2022: Andy Fry (Labour) gains by-election from Conservatives
  • March 2023: Jack Satterthwaite (Liberal Democrats) resigns – by-election held May 2023
  • May 2023: Malcolm Victory (Green) gains by-election from Liberal Democrats
  • August 2023: Andy Roberts (Conservative) dies – by-election held October 2023
  • October 2023: Andrew Cross (Green) gains by-election from Conservatives
  • December 2023: Peter Griffiths (Conservative) dies – by-election held May 2024
  • January 2024: Bill Hopkins (Conservative) joins Reform UK
  • May 2024: Mark Goodge (Conservative) wins by-election
  • June 2024: Kyle Daisley (Conservative) and Mike Rouse (Conservative) leave party to sit as independent
  • August 2024: Beverley Nielsen (independent) joins Labour
  • November 2024: Tony Muir (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
  • January 2025: Alan Amos (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
  • March 2025: Jo Monk (Conservative) joins Reform UK
  • April 2025: Alan Amos (Independent) joins Reform UK

Summary

The Conservatives lost the majority they had held for 20 years, and the leader of the council, Simon Geraghty, lost his seat. Reform UK were the largest party, but were two seats short of a majority. Reform chose Jo Monk to be their new group leader after the election; she had been a Conservative councillor until March 2025 when she joined Reform. She was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 22 May 2025, leading a minority administration.

Election result

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Division results by district

Bromsgrove

Division results

Malvern Hills

Division results

Redditch

Division results

Worcester

Division results

Wychavon

Division results

The result in Littletons was a tie between Hannah Robson and Liz Williams. Electoral law in the United Kingdom requires the Returning Officer to decide between candidates by lot in the event of a tie. In this case, one of the two candidates' names was drawn at random from a box, and Robson was returned. The official declaration shows the winning candidate having one extra vote in the event of a tie. On 25 June, Williams lodged an election petition with the High Court alleging undue interference and fraud. In October, the case was thrown out on a technicality because Williams had missed the deadline to submit her claim to the High Court.

Wyre Forest

Division results

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By-elections

Bromsgrove South

See also

References

Notes