# 2025 Lancashire County Council election

The 2025 Lancashire County Council election is due to take place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Lancashire County Council in Lancashire, England. All 84 seats will be elected. This will be on the same day as other local elections.

## Background

In the 2021 election, the Conservatives won 48 seats, giving them a majority and control of the council. The Labour Party were the second biggest party with 32 seats, followed by the Liberal Democrats and Greens with 2 seats each.
Two by-elections took place between the 2021 and 2025 elections:
Conservative Labour Green
By-elections :
| Division | Date | Incumbent | Incumbent | Winner | Winner | Cause | Ref. |
| Chorley Rural West | 14 September 2023 | | Keith Iddon | | Alan Whittaker | Death | |
| Burnley Central West | 26 October 2023 | | Andy Fewings | | Scott Cunliffe | Resignation | |
In June 2022, councillor Mohammed Iqbal of Brierfield & Nelson West was suspended from the Labour Party following comments, which were alleged to be anti-Semitic, where he compared the actions of Israel in the Gaza war to the Nazis in World War II. In November 2023, councillors Sobia Malik of Burnley Central East, Usman Arif of Burnley North East and Yousuf Motala of Preston City resigned from the Labour Party in protest of party leader Keir Starmer's decision to not call for a ceasefire in the Gaza war. In February 2024, councillor Azhar Ali of Nelson East was suspended from the Labour Party following comments where he claimed that Israel had used the October 7 attacks as a pretext to invade the Gaza Strip.
In the 2024 general election, the Conservatives lost all but one of their Lancashire seats, retaining only Fylde. The Labour Party won 12 seats (Blackpool North and Fleetwood, Blackpool South, Burnley, Hyndburn, Lancaster and Wyre, Morecambe and Lunesdale, Pendle and Clitheroe, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale and Darwen, South Ribble and West Lancashire), but lost Blackburn to pro-Gaza independent Adnan Hussain. The Chorley seat was held by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle. Overall, of the Lancashire seats, the Labour Party won 12 and the Conservative Party, Speaker and an independent candidate won 1 each.
After the general election, a casual vacancy opened in Fleetwood East as councillor Lorraine Beavers was elected as MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, with the council choosing not to hold a by-election and leaving the seat vacant until the May election.

## Previous council composition

| After 2021 election | After 2021 election | After 2021 election | Before 2025 election | Before 2025 election | Before 2025 election |
| Party | Party | Seats | Party | Party | Seats |
| | Conservative | 48 | | Conservative | 46 |
| | Labour | 32 | | Labour | 26 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 2 | | Liberal Democrats | 2 |
| | Green | 2 | | Green | 2 |
| | Reform UK | 0 | | Reform UK | 2 |
| | Independent | 0 | | Independent | 7 |
| | Vacant | N/A | | Vacant | 1 |

### Changes

* June 2022: Mohammed Iqbal (Labour) suspended from party
* September 2022: Loraine Cox (Labour) joins Conservatives
* June 2023: Keith Iddon (Conservative) dies – by-election held September 2023
* September 2023: Alan Whittaker (Labour) gains by-election from Conservatives; Andy Fewings (Green) resigns – by-election held October 2023
* October 2023: Scott Cunliffe (Green) wins by-election
* November 2023: Usman Arif (Labour), Sobia Malik (Labour), and Yousuf Motala (Labour) leave party to sit as independents
* February 2024: Azhar Ali (Labour) suspended from party
* February 2025: Lorraine Beavers (Labour) resigns – seat left vacant until 2025 election
* March 2025: Matthew Salter (Conservative) and Ged Mirfin (Conservative) join Reform UK

## Electoral divisions

Boundary revisions by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England meant these elections were fought on new divisions, since 2017.

## Summary of candidates

*This table is under development.
| | Chorley |
| Conservative | 3* |
| Labour | 6* |
| Liberal Democrats | 0* |
| Independent | 0* |
| Green | 8 |
| Reform UK | 5* |