2025 Suffolk County Council election

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2025 Suffolk County Council election

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All 70 seats to Suffolk County Council
36 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Matthew Hicks Andrew Stringer Sarah Adams
Party Conservative Green Labour
Leader since 11 May 2018 14 May 2021 December 2017
Leader's seat Thredling Upper Gipping St John's
Last election 55 seats, 47.6% 9 seats, 15.0% 5 seats, 21.3%
Seats before 53 9 5

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Penny Otton Victor Lukaniuk
Party Liberal Democrats Independent WSI
Leader since 7 May 2019 May 2017
Leader's seat Thedwastre South Brandon
Last election 4 seats, 9.9% 1 seats, 4.5% 1 seats, 0.8%
Seats before 5 2 1

Leader before election

Matt Hicks
Conservative

Leader after election

TBD

The 2025 Suffolk County Council election will take place on 1 May 2025 as part of the 2025 local elections in the United Kingdom.[1] All 70 councillors will be elected from electoral divisions across the county, which will return either one or two county councillors each, by first-past-the-post voting, for a four-year term of office.

This election will be first taken after the implementation of a review by Local Government Boundary Commission for England which will reduce the number of councillors from 75 to 70.[2]

Voters who live in divisions which elected two councillors are entitled to cast a maximum of two votes, while those living in divisions only electing one councillor are only entitled to cast one vote.

Previous composition[edit]

2021 election[edit]

Party Seats
Conservative 55
Green 9
Labour 5
Liberal Democrats 4
Independent 1
West Suffolk Independents 1
Total 75

Composition of council seats before election[edit]

Party Seats
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Green
Independent
West Suffolk Independents
Vacant
Total 75

Changes between elections[edit]

In between the 2021 election and the 2025 election, the following council seats changed hands outside of by-elections:

Division Date Previous Party New Party Cause Resulting Council Composition
Con Grn Lab LDem Ind WSI
Eastgate & Moreton Hall[3] April 2023 Conservative Independent Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member. 54 9 5 4 2 1
Felixstowe Coastal[4] 4 May 2023 Conservative Liberal Democrats Sitting councillor died. Liberal Democrats won by-election. 53 9 5 5 2 1

Overall Results[edit]

2025 Suffolk County Council election
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative
  Labour
  Liberal Democrats
  Green
  Independent
  West Suffolk Independents

Results summaries by district[edit]

Babergh[edit]

Babergh District Summary
Party Seats +/- Votes % +/-
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Labour
Independent
Green
Total

East Suffolk[edit]

East Suffolk District Summary
Party Seats +/- Votes % +/-
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Green
Labour
Total

Ipswich[edit]

Ipswich Borough Summary
Party Seats +/- Votes % +/-
Labour
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Green
Independent
Total

Mid Suffolk[edit]

Mid Suffolk District Summary
Party Seats +/- Votes % +/-
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Green
Labour
Total

West Suffolk[edit]

West Suffolk District Summary
Party Seats +/- Votes % +/-
Conservative
Independent
Labour
Liberal Democrat
West Suffolk Independents
Green
Total

Results by ward[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Elections | Suffolk County Council". www.suffolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  2. ^ "LGBCE | Suffolk County Council | LGBCE Site". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  3. ^ Derrick, Paul (19 May 2023). "Former Bury St Edmunds mayor Peter Thompson quits Conservative Party but will carry on as Independent as "there's still work that needs to be done"". Suffolk News. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Suffolk County Council councillor of 17 years dies after short illness". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2024.