2025 Nottinghamshire County Council election


The 2025 Nottinghamshire County Council election took place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Nottinghamshire County Council in Nottinghamshire, England. All 66 seats were elected. This was on the same day as other local elections.
Reflecting national trends, the Conservatives, which had regained overall control of the council in the previous local election, experienced a significant loss of seats, resulting in the loss of its majority to Reform UK. The Labour Party also saw a substantial reduction in its representation, retaining only a third of its previous seats. In a rare positive outcome for the Conservatives on the day, the party recorded its sole net gain nationwide in Nottinghamshire, where Janette Barlow won the Collingham ward from independent councillor Debbie Darby.

Previous council composition

Changes 2021–2025

  • October 2021: Francis Purdue-Horan expelled from party
  • December 2021: Maureen Dobson dies; by-election held February 2022
  • February 2022: Debbie Darby wins by-election
  • August 2022: Eddie Cubley dies; by-election held November 2022
  • November 2022: Kane Oliver gains by-election from Conservatives
  • April 2023: Daniel Williamson resigns; by-election held May 2023
  • May 2023: Rachel Madden wins by-election
  • August 2023: Steve Carr leaves party to sit as an independent
  • June 2024: John Doddy expelled from party
  • January 2025: John McGrath leaves party to sit as an independent; John Doddy joins Reform UK
  • February 2025: Broxtowe Alliance formed — John McGrath joins party; Broxtowe Independent Group formed — Steve Carr, Kane Oliver and Elizabeth Williamson join party

Summary

Election result

The above figures do not include the countermanded election in Mansfield North due to take place in June 2025

Candidates by electoral division

Ashfield District

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Sutton Central & East


Bassetlaw District

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Worksop South


Broxtowe Borough

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Eastwood

The incumbent councillor, Kane Oliver had been elected in a by-election as an independent.

Gedling Borough

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Mansfield District

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Mansfield North

The election in Mansfield North was countermanded following the death of the TUSC candidate Karen Seymour. The election for this division was subsequently re-organised and held on 12 June 2025.

Newark & Sherwood District

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Ollerton


Rushcliffe Borough

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West Bridgford South


Aftermath

Reform UK took majority control with an overall majority of 6 seats. Reform's only county councillor prior to the election was John Doddy, who had been elected as a Conservative in 2021 but joined Reform UK earlier in 2025. Seven days after the election, the Reform UK councillor for Newark West, Desmond Clarke, resigned from the council.
After the election, Reform chose Mick Barton to be its new group leader. He was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 22 May 2025.