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Blaby 2025

Local elections held 1 May 2025.

7 ward races
8 seats
7 elected below the proportional quota
87.5% of seats below quota

How to read this page

Each race below shows the share of valid ballots the marginal elected candidate actually won, and compares it to the proportional quota: the share that would be needed to be guaranteed that seat under any proportional voting method (1 seats + 1). For a 1-seat ward the quota is 50%; for 2 seats, 33.3%; for 3 seats, 25%.

Where the actual winning share fell below the quota, we show the gap as points under par — the editorial indictment. Above-par results are just majority mandates and pass without comment. The voting method is the subject of every observation here. Named candidates appear as the public election record requires; the cause being audited is the voting method, not the individuals. See the methodology page for derivations.

If votes were counted by party

Across the 7 wards in this cycle, parties received the vote totals below. The proportional column shows what each party would have won if the 8 seats had been allocated to those vote totals in proportion (how, with caveats). The Δ column is the actual seat count minus the proportional seat count — positive numbers are parties First-Past-the-Post over-represented in this council, negative are parties it under-represented.

PartyVotesVote %Seats won% of seatsProportional seatsProportional %Δ
Reform UK10,40935.8%675.0%337.5%+3
Conservative and Unionist Party8,31428.6%112.5%225.0%-1
Liberal Democrats3,88513.4%112.5%112.5%0
Green Party3,55512.2%00.0%112.5%-1
Labour Party2,8609.8%00.0%112.5%-1
Independent560.2%00.0%00.0%0
Total29,079100.0%8100.0%8100.0%0

Vote share vs seats won

The top bar is each party's share of votes cast in this council. Below, one square per seat, coloured by the party that won it — first the actual First-Past-the-Post result, then what a proportional method would have produced from the same vote totals. Divergence between the bar and the actual grid is the indictment of the method.

Vote share
Actual seats
Proportional seats

Wards in this council

Sorted with the largest gap below the quota first. Click any ward to jump to its full result.

Race results

Enderby & Lubbesthorpe · single-seat

Marginal winner 31.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +18.5 pts below quota Valid ballots 2,547

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Nick HoltLiberal Democrats80231.5%Elected
2Moin SiddiquiReform UK66826.2%
3David John FindlayConservative and Unionist Party56422.1%
4Ravinder KaurLabour Party40015.7%
5Florence Eleanor TurnerGreen Party1194.7%

Electorate 9,561 · Ballots cast 2,553 · Invalid 6 · EC ward code 57381 · Back to ward index

Braunstone · single-seat

Marginal winner 35.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +14.5 pts below quota Valid ballots 2,715

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Kim Paul RobinsonReform UK96535.5%Elected
2Iain Macfarlane HewsonConservative and Unionist Party84331.0%
3Tracey ShepherdLabour Party62122.9%
4Mary Doreen KapadiaGreen Party1605.9%
5Antony Robert MoseleyLiberal Democrats1344.9%

Electorate 9,604 · Ballots cast 2,723 · Invalid 8 · EC ward code 57380 · Back to ward index

Cosby & Countesthorpe · single-seat

Marginal winner 38.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +11.9 pts below quota Valid ballots 3,499

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Graham CookeReform UK1,33338.1%Elected
2Les PhillimoreConservative and Unionist Party1,03929.7%
3Royston Oliver Charles BaylissLiberal Democrats71820.5%
4Callum Michael ParrishLabour Party2186.2%
5Guy WalshGreen Party1945.5%

Electorate 10,421 · Ballots cast 3,502 · Invalid 3 · EC ward code 46719 · Back to ward index

Stoney Stanton & Croft · single-seat

Marginal winner 40.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +9.9 pts below quota Valid ballots 3,369

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Carl Walter AbbottReform UK1,35240.1%Elected
2Ben TaylorConservative and Unionist Party1,07732.0%
3Matt WrightLiberal Democrats42812.7%
4Laura BadlandLabour Party3339.9%
5Xeimon Zak George Parker-CoxGreen Party1865.5%

Electorate 10,569 · Ballots cast 3,376 · Invalid 7 · EC ward code 57383 · Back to ward index

Narborough & Whetstone · single-seat

Marginal winner 42.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +7.6 pts below quota Valid ballots 3,310

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Andrew Peter ThorpReform UK1,40342.4%Elected
2Nigel GrundyConservative and Unionist Party81224.5%
3Mike JelfsGreen Party49214.9%
4Lisa Jane Pendery-HuntLabour Party2918.8%
5Ande SavageLiberal Democrats2617.9%
6Danuta Bernadette JeevesIndependent561.7%

Electorate 10,709 · Ballots cast 3,315 · Invalid 5 · EC ward code 46722 · Back to ward index

Blaby & Glen Parva · single-seat

Marginal winner 44.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Difference +5.8 pts below quota Valid ballots 3,091

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1John Andrew BloxhamReform UK1,36644.2%Elected
2Sue JordanLiberal Democrats1,11035.9%
3Marian Gail BroomheadConservative and Unionist Party32110.4%
4Eleanor TurnerGreen Party1534.9%
5Anna Nesfield ParrishLabour Party1474.8%

Electorate 9,622 · Ballots cast 3,097 · Invalid 6 · EC ward code 46717 · Back to ward index

Glenfields, Kirby Muxloe & Leicester Forests · 2-seat (bloc vote)

Marginal winner 31.8% Proportional quota 33.3% Difference +1.6 pts below quota Valid ballots 5,454

RankCandidatePartyVotesShareElected
1Nick ChapmanConservative and Unionist Party1,95335.8%Elected
2Kevin Paul CrookReform UK1,73331.8%Elected
3Lee Martin BreckonConservative and Unionist Party1,70531.3%
4Josh WaldenReform UK1,58929.1%
5Tony DeakinGreen Party1,16521.4%
6Nick CoxGreen Party1,08619.9%
7Malcolm Francis FoxLabour Party4408.1%
8Shabbir AslamLabour Party4107.5%
9Iain Edward Cameron SmithLiberal Democrats2664.9%
10Eddie Pop LarkinLiberal Democrats1663.0%

Electorate 18,475 · Ballots cast 5,459 · Invalid 5 · EC ward code 57382 · Back to ward index