2025 Suffolk County Council election

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2025 Suffolk County Council election
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  2021 1 May 20252029 

All 70 seats to Suffolk County Council
36 seats needed for a majority
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LeaderMatthew HicksAndrew StringerSarah Adams
Party Conservative Green Labour
Leader since11 May 201814 May 2021December 2017
Leader's seatThredlingUpper Gipping St John's
Last election55 seats, 47.6%9 seats, 15.0%5 seats, 21.3%
Current seats5196

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LeaderPenny OttonVictor Lukaniuk
Party Liberal Democrats Independent WSI
Leader since7 May 2019May 2017
Leader's seatThedwastre South Brandon
Last election4 seats, 9.9%1 seats, 4.5%1 seats, 0.8%
Current seats521

Suffolk UK electoral division map 2025.svg
Map showing the new pattern of electoral divisions for the Suffolk County Council area.

Incumbent Leader

Matt Hicks
Conservative



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.

Contents

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

2021 election

PartySeats
Conservative 55
Green 9
Labour 5
Liberal Democrats 4
Independent 1
West Suffolk Independents1
Total75

Composition of council seats before election

PartySeats
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Green
Independent
West Suffolk Independents
Reform UK
Vacant
Total75

Changes between elections

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

DivisionDatePrevious PartyNew PartyCauseResulting Council Composition
Con Grn Lab LDem Ind WSI Ref
Eastgate & Moreton Hall [3] April 2023 Conservative Independent Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.54954210
Felixstowe Coastal [4] 4 May 2023 Conservative Liberal Democrats Sitting councillor died. Liberal Democrats won by-election.53955210
Belstead Brook [5] 6 September 2024 Conservative Reform UK Councillor defected to Reform UK.53955211

Overall Results

2025 Suffolk County Council election
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative
  Labour
  Liberal Democrats
  Green
  Independent
 West Suffolk Independents

Results summaries by district

Babergh

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

East Suffolk

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

Ipswich

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

Mid Suffolk

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

West Suffolk

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

Results by ward

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