Fact check: Reform was largest party in Warwickshire local elections

By contributor August Graham, PA

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The party won 23 out of the 57 seats on the council (Jane Barlow/PA)

A senior Reform UK politician claimed that the party “won a walloping majority on May 1, becoming the largest party with 23 seats” on Warwickshire County Council.

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Reform won around four in 10 of the seats on the council, gaining just over 30% of the total vote – making it the biggest party by both measures, however it did not win a majority in either sense.

The facts

The council does not provide a single public webpage displaying the vote tallies of all the wards in the last local election. The PA news agency compiled the results from all the different wards into a spreadsheet.

Analysis of that data shows that there were a total of 160,300 votes cast in the election, of which somewhat over 49,000 were cast for Reform candidates. That is around 30.7% of the vote.

While it fell short of exceeding 50% of the vote to obtain a majority, the result makes Reform the largest party by vote share, ahead of the Conservatives on 24.9%.

The analysis also shows that Reform won 23 out of the 57 council seats. That is around 40% of the total seats on the council.

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