2025 Lincolnshire County Council election

2025 Lincolnshire County Council election

1 May 2025 (2025-05-01)

All 70 seats on Lincolnshire County Council
36 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Ref
Con
LD
Leader Robert Gibson Martin Hill Trevor Young
Party Reform Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 1 March 2025 24 March 2005 May 2021
Leader's seat Spalding East Folkingham Rural Gainsborough Trent
Last election 0 seats, 0.2% 54 seats, 55.5% 3 seats, 5.2%
Seats before 3 54 3
Seats won 44 14 5
Seat change 44 40 2
Popular vote 73,207 50,783 17,151
Percentage 39.2% 27.2% 9.2%
Swing 39.0 pp 28.3 pp 4.0 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ind
Leader Karen Lee Phil Dilks Marianne Overton
Party Labour Independent Lincolnshire Independent
Leader since 3 August 2023 May 2021 18 July 2008
Leader's seat Ermine & Cathedral Deepings East Bassingham & Welbourn
Last election 4 seats, 17.4% 5 seats, 11.5% 1 seat, 3.1%
Seats before 4 5 1
Seats won 3 3 1
Seat change 1 2
Popular vote 20,092 10,161 4,078
Percentage 10.7% 5.5% 2.2%
Swing 6.7 pp 6.0 pp 0.9 pp


Composition of the Lincolnshire County Council after the election.

Leader before election

Martin Hill
Conservative

Leader after election

Sean Matthews
Reform

The 2025 Lincolnshire County Council election was held on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Lincolnshire County Council in Lincolnshire, England. All 70 seats were up for election. This was on the same day as other local elections including the inaugural 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election. The council was under Conservative majority control prior to the election. Reform UK won a majority of the seats on the council at the election.