South Kesteven District Council elections

Map of the results of the 2023 South Kesteven District Council election. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in orange, Labour in red, Green Party in green, and independents in grey.

South Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2015, 56 councillors have been elected from 30 wards. ^[1]

Council elections

Summary of the results of recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 1999 and 2015 elections, with the number of councillors being reduced from 58 to 56 in 2015. ^{[2] [3]}

• 1973 South Kesteven District Council election
• 1976 South Kesteven District Council election
• 1979 South Kesteven District Council election (New ward boundaries) ^[4]
• 1983 South Kesteven District Council election

Year	Conservative	Independent	Labour	Lincolnshire Independents	UK Independence Party	Liberal Democrats	Others	Liberal (post 1989)	Liberal (pre 1989)	Vacant	Notes
1987 [5]	27	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	3
1991 [6]	22	14	12	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same [7] [8]
1995 [9]	13	18	17	0	0	6	0	3	0	0
1999 [2]	29	13	12	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	New ward boundaries [10]
2003 [11]	31	12	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
2007 [12]	35	15	2	0	0	6	0	0	0	0
2011 [13] [14] [15]	38	12	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
2015 [16] [17]	45	6	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	New ward boundaries
2019	40	11	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
2023	24	22	2	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	Others = Green Party

District result maps

• 
  2003 results map
• 
  2007 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2015 results map
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  2019 results map
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  2023 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections; ^[18] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Deeping St James	5 December 1996		Labour		Conservative
Heath	22 May 1997		Conservative		Ind. Conservative
Barrowby	17 July 1997		Independent		Conservative
Harrowby	17 July 1997		Labour		Independent Labour
Ringstone	17 July 1997		Independent		Independent
Harrowby	11 December 1997		Labour		Labour
Stamford St Johns	14 May 1998		Liberal Democrats		Conservative
Greyfriars	16 July 1998		Conservative		Conservative
Harrowby	24 August 2000		Labour		Conservative
All Saints	7 June 2001		Labour		Labour
St Mary's	7 June 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Greyfriars	21 October 2004		Conservative		Conservative
All Saints	1 September 2005		Conservative		Conservative
Earlesfield	1 September 2005		Labour		Labour
St Anne's	1 September 2005		Independent		Labour
Market and West Deeping	9 March 2006		Labour		Conservative
Truesdale	18 May 2006		Independent		Conservative
Aveland	13 March 2014		Conservative		Conservative
Belvoir	3 December 2015		Conservative		Conservative
Deeping St James	5 May 2016		Conservative		Conservative
Stamford St George's	15 March 2018		Conservative		Conservative
Stamford St John's	15 March 2018		Conservative		Conservative
Glen	6 May 2021		Conservative		Conservative
Grantham Arnoldfield	28 October 2021		Conservative		Conservative
Stamford All Saints	28 October 2021		Conservative		Independent
Aveland	24 February 2022		Conservative		Conservative
Isaac Newton	24 February 2022		Conservative		Conservative
Bourne East	10 November 2022		Conservative		Conservative
Grantham St Wulfram's	10 November 2022		Conservative		Conservative
Toller	15 December 2022		Independent		Liberal Democrats
Grantham St Wulfram's	9 November 2023		Conservative		Conservative

References

1. "District Council Elections - 7 May 2015". South Kesteven District Council. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
2. "How the nations voted - Election". The Times . NewsBank. 8 May 1999. p. 48.
3. Hawkins, Judith (11 April 2015). "New South Kesteven District Council boundaries come under fire". Grantham Journal. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
4. The District of South Kesteven (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978
5. "Results in Thursday's local elections". The Times . NewsBank. 9 May 1987.
6. "Complete round-up of results from Thursday's local council elections". The Times . NewsBank. 4 May 1991.
7. legislation.gov.uk - The Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
8. legislation.gov.uk - The Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
9. "Complete list of results from thursday's council elections". The Times . NewsBank. 6 May 1995.
10. legislation.gov.uk - The District of South Kesteven (Electoral Changes) Order 1998. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
11. "Local elections". BBC News Online . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
12. "South Kesteven". BBC News Online. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
13. "Local authority elections: England". The Guardian . NewsBank. 7 May 2011.
14. "Declaration of result of poll". South Kesteven District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
15. "Tories lose by-elections in nail-biting night". The Independent . NewsBank. 24 June 2011.
16. "District Council Elections - 7 May 2015". South Kesteven District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
17. "Declaration of result of poll". South Kesteven District Council. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
18. "Local Authority Byelection Results" . Retrieved 3 May 2015.

External links

• South Kesteven District Council