2025 Leicestershire County Council election

2025 Leicestershire County Council election
1 May 2025 (2025-05-01)
All 55 seats to Leicestershire County Council
28 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader none Nick Rushton
(defeated)		 Michael Mullaney
Party Reform UK Conservative Liberal Democrats
Last election 0 seats, 0.4% 42 seats, 51.8% 9 seats, 18.9%
Seats won 25 15 11
Seat change 25 27 2
Popular vote 61,314 53,743 30,778
Percentage 32.4% 28.4% 16.3%
Swing 32.0 pp 23.4 pp 2.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Max Hunt
(defeated)
Party Labour Green Independent
Last election 4 seats, 20.3% 0 seats, 8.3% 0 seats, 0.9%
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change 2 1 1
Popular vote 22,139 17,319 3,557
Percentage 11.7% 9.2% 1.9%
Swing 8.6 pp 0.9 pp 1.0 pp
Winner of each seat at the 2025 Leicestershire County Council election
Leader before election

Nick Rushton
Conservative

 Leader after election

Dan Harrison
Reform UK
No overall control

The 2025 Leicestershire County Council election took place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Leicestershire County Council in Leicestershire, England. All 55 seats were up for election. This was on the same day as other local elections. Prior to the election the council was under Conservative majority control. The election saw the council go under no overall control, with Reform UK the largest party, winning 25 of the 55 seats, leaving them three seats short of a majority. They subsequently formed a minority administration to run the council.

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