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Sevenoaks

Every election cycle we have data for, most recent first.

Council composition (approx.)

60 councillors elected across cycles 2023, 2025, summed by party. One square per seat. Approximate: by-thirds councils mid-term, boundary reviews, and partial-cycle elections all mean this can be a few seats off the live council count. For the authoritative current composition, check the council's own members list. Hover any seat for the party.

Cycles

Party-control changes between cycles

Cases where the largest party (by seats won) changed from one cycle to the next. Each row shows the new party's vote share in both cycles and the seats they took. A small vote shift paired with a big seat shift is the First-Past-the-Post volatility story.

2023 2025

Conservative and Unionist Party Reform UK

Vote shift (incoming party) +31.7 pts 0.1% → 31.9%
Seat shift (incoming party) +66.7 pts 0.0% → 66.7%
Outgoing party (vote / seats 2023 → 2025) 51.1% → 31.8% seats: 61.1% → 16.7%

Vote share vs seat share

2023
Votes
Seats
2025
Votes
Seats

Caveat for by-thirds councils: only a third of the seats are elected in each cycle, so a flip in the "largest party this cycle" doesn't necessarily mean a flip in overall council control. The vote-vs-seat divergence still tells you something about how First-Past-the-Post allocates the seats that were contested.

Ward by ward

Each row is a ward, each column a cycle. Each cell shows the top-of-poll candidate's party (swatch) and their share of valid ballots. Wards are matched by name across cycles — boundary reviews can mean a ward of the same name is a slightly different area in a later cycle.

Ward202120232025
Ash & New Ash Green23%
Brasted Chevening & Sundridge17%
Cowden & Hever54%
Crockenhill & Well Hill87%
Dunton Green & Riverhead24%
Edenbridge North & East38%
Edenbridge South & West29%
Eynsford64%
Farningham Horton Kirby & South Darenth31%
Fawkham & West Kingsdown27%
Halstead Knockholt & Badgers Mount34%
Hartley & Hodsoll Street25%
Hextable37%
Kemsing30%
Leigh & Chiddingstone Causeway59%
Otford & Shoreham30%
Penshurst Fordcombe & Chiddingstone54%
Seal & Weald28%
Sevenoaks Eastern41%
Sevenoaks Kippington27%
Sevenoaks North & Darent Valley64%37%
Sevenoaks North East59%
Sevenoaks Northern34%
Sevenoaks Rural North East42%
Sevenoaks Rural South61%27%
Sevenoaks Town46%46%
Sevenoaks Town & St. Johns19%
Sevenoaks West59%35%
Swanley55%42%
Swanley Christchurch & Swanley Village24%
Swanley St Mary's34%
Swanley White Oak21%
Westerham & Crockham Hill29%