2025 Devon County Council election

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All 60 seats toDevon County Council 31 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Caroline Leaver James McInnes Party Liberal Democrats Reform UK Conservative Leader's seat Barnstaple South Hatherleigh & Chagford(retired) Last election 9 seats, 17.7% 0 seats, 0.2% 39 seats, 42.4% Seats before 10 0 40 Seats won 27 18 7 Seat change 18 18 32 Popular vote 66,639 62,332 50,092 Percentage 28.6% 26.8% 21.5% Swing 10.7% 26.6% 21.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jacqi Hodgson N/A Carol Whitton Party Green Independent Labour Leader's seat Totnes & Dartington St David's & Haven Banks(defeated) Last election 2 seats, 11.0% 3 seats, 10.8% 7 seats, 15.9% Seats before 2 2 6 Seats won 6 2 0 Seat change 4 1 7 Popular vote 23,833 11,154 18,216 Percentage 10.2% 4.8% 7.8% Swing 0.9% 3.8% 8.2%
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Leader before election James McInnes Conservative Leader after election Julian Brazil Liberal Democrat No overall control

The2025 Devon County Council election took place on 1 May 2025 to elect members toDevon County Council inDevon,England.^[1] All 60 seats were up for election.^[2] This was on the same day as otherlocal elections. The council was underConservative majority control prior to the election. The council went underno overall control at the election, with theLiberal Democrats becoming the largest party.

At the2021 election, the Conservatives won an outright majority of seats.^[3] The party had held control of the council since2009.^[4] The council was led by Conservative councillor James McInnes prior to the election; he did not stand for re-election in 2025.^[5]

• November 2023: Rob Hannaford (Labour) suspended from party^[7]
• June 2024: Rob Hannaford (independent) joins Liberal Democrats^[8]
• July 2024: Rob Hannaford (Liberal Democrats) leaves party to sit as an independent^[9]
• February 2025: Frank Biederman (independent) joins Liberal Democrats;^[10] Rob Hannaford (independent) joins Conservatives^[11]

Following the election the council was under no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats the largest party. The Liberal Democrats changed their group leader immediately after the election, with Julian Brazil replacing Caroline Leaver.^[13] Julian Brazil was then formally appointed as the newleader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 22 May 2025. The Liberal Democrats took nine of the ten seats on the council's cabinet, and the other place was taken by theGreen Party.^[14]

Reform UK had no seats on the council prior to the election. They won 18 seats at the election, making them the second largest party on the council. They chose Michael Fife Cook as their new group leader.^[15]

2025 Devon County Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	60	27	18	0	18	45.0	28.6	66,639	+10.7
	Reform UK	60	18	18	0	18	30.0	26.8	62,332	+26.6
	Conservative	60	7	0	32	32	11.7	21.5	50,092	-21.3
	Green	55	6	4	0	4	10.0	10.2	23,833	-0.9
	Labour	60	0	0	7	7	0.0	7.8	18,216	-8.2
	Independent	19	2	0	1	1	3.3	4.8	11,154	-3.8
	TUSC	4	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	200	-0.2
	Heritage	7	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	189	N/A
	Liberal	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	92	N/A
	Communist	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	13	N/A

Candidates marked with an asterisk (*) indicate an incumbent councillor.

East Devon district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	5	5	12,663	26.6	+17.7
	Reform UK	2	2	11,876	25.0	+25.0
	Conservative	1	8	10,758	22.6	–23.4
	Independent	2	1	6,857	14.4	+2.5
	Green	1		3,452	7.3	–0.7
	Labour	0		1,890	4.0	–9.8
	Heritage	0		57	0.1	N/A
Total		11		57,703

Exeter district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Labour	0	7	8,858	27.3	–15.3
	Reform UK	4	4	7,779	24.0	N/A
	Green	3	3	6,492	20.0	+3.6
	Conservative	1	1	5,071	15.6	–16.4
	Liberal Democrats	1	1	4,217	13.0	+5.9
	TUSC	0		38	0.1	N/A
Total		9		32,455

Mid Devon district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	5	4	8,368	36.5	+15.8
	Reform UK	1	1	6,650	29.0	N/A
	Conservative	0	5	4,763	20.8	–28.6
	Labour	0		1,457	6.4	–7.6
	Green	0		1,224	5.3	–7.4
	Independent	0		391	1.7	–0.9
	Heritage	0		52	0.2	N/A
	Communist	0		13	0.1	N/A
Total		6		22,918

North Devon district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	5	3	9,878	35.8	+13.2
	Reform UK	1	1	7,456	27.0	N/A
	Conservative	1	4	6,680	24.2	–17.5
	Green	1	1	2,618	9.5	–3.5
	Labour	0		900	3.3	–4.2
	Independent	0	1	47	0.2	–13.4
Total		8		27,579

Note: Frank Lindsay Biederman was previously elected as an Independent with 64.6%. Changes are shown from the Liberal Democrat performance at the previous election.

South Hams district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	5	3	9,621	35.8	+11.8
	Conservative	1	3	6,332	23.6	–23.1
	Reform UK	0		6,162	22.9	+22.6
	Green	1		3,346	12.5	–1.2
	Labour	0		1,108	4.1	–8.8
	Independent	0		197	0.7	N/A
	TUSC	0		89	0.3	±0.0
	Heritage	0		20	0.1	N/A
Total		7		26,875

Teignbridge district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	5	1	11,816	30.7	–5.8
	Reform UK	4	4	11,190	29.1	+28.9
	Conservative	1	4	7,157	18.6	–19.8
	Independent	0	1	2,895	7.5	–0.8
	Green	0		2,885	7.5	+2.0
	Labour	0		2,294	6.0	–3.6
	Liberal	0		92	0.2	N/A
	TUSC	0		73	0.2	–1.2
	Heritage	0		60	0.2	N/A
Total		10		38,462

Torridge district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	1	1	6,244	31.8	+13.7
	Reform UK	3	3	6,240	31.7	N/A
	Conservative	1	4	4,778	24.3	–23.2
	Green	0		1,721	8.8	–0.5
	Labour	0		679	3.5	–8.4
Total		5		19,662

West Devon district summary

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Reform UK	3	3	4,979	28.9	+27.9
	Conservative	1	3	4,553	26.4	–20.9
	Liberal Democrats	0		3,832	22.2	+14.2
	Green	0		2,095	12.1	–3.6
	Labour	0		1,030	6.0	–4.1
	Independent	0		767	4.4	–13.4
Total		4		17,256