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Shropshire

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

Council composition (approx.)

74 councillors elected across cycles 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.

2021 2025

Conservative and Unionist Party Liberal Democrats

Vote shift (incoming party) +12.2 pts 22.0% → 34.2%
Seat shift (incoming party) +37.6 pts 19.2% → 56.8%
Outgoing party (vote / seats 2021 → 2025) 44.7% → 19.9% seats: 57.5% → 9.5%

Vote share vs seat share

2021
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.

Ward20212025
Abbey39%49%
Albrighton56%
Alveley & Claverley69%
Bagley29%45%
Battlefield60%33%
Bayston Hill52%
Bayston Hill Column & Sutton19%
Belle Vue65%56%
Bicton Heath47%
Bishop's Castle70%
Bishops Castle78%
Bowbrook62%
Bridgnorth Castle32%
Bridgnorth East43%
Bridgnorth East & Astley Abbotts25%
Bridgnorth South & Alveley41%
Bridgnorth West & Tasley30%32%
Broseley56%44%
Brown Clee57%39%
Burnell66%49%
Castlefields & Ditherington66%52%
Cheswardine70%35%
Chirbury & Worthen84%71%
Church Stretton & Craven Arms25%
Claverley & Worfield51%
Clee50%36%
Cleobury Mortimer37%35%
Clun55%54%
Column & Sutton34%
Copthorne59%54%
Corvedale66%44%
Craven Arms40%
Ellesmere Urban52%41%
Gobowen Selattyn & Weston Rhyn29%
Harlescott44%40%
Highley53%43%
Hodnet61%36%
Llanymynech49%38%
Longden68%55%
Loton75%45%
Ludlow East51%43%
Ludlow North51%52%
Ludlow South65%60%
Market Drayton East57%
Market Drayton East & Rural41%
Market Drayton North45%
Market Drayton South40%
Market Drayton West24%
Meole36%58%
Monkmoor43%48%
Much Wenlock61%51%
Oswestry East30%
Oswestry North38%
Oswestry North East43%
Oswestry South56%35%
Oswestry South East43%
Oswestry West54%
Oteley & Reabrook39%
Porthill57%48%
Prees76%43%
Quarry & Coton Hill41%57%
Radbrook52%51%
Rea Valley71%40%
Ruyton & Baschurch48%49%
Selattyn & Gobowen38%
Severn Valley60%34%
Shawbury60%43%
Shifnal North57%34%
Shifnal Rural39%
Shifnal South30%
Shifnal South & Cosford56%
St Martin's30%
St Oswald32%
St. Martins58%
St. Oswald59%
Stottesdon, Kinlet & Hopton Wafers43%
Sundorne73%
Sundorne & Old Heath39%
Tern57%35%
The Meres51%51%
The Strettons35%
Underdale46%49%
Wem30%43%
Whitchurch North34%54%
Whitchurch South63%38%
Whitchurch West38%
Whittington51%48%
Worfield75%