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2025 Election results May 2, 2025

Elections took place on Thursday May 1, 2025 in a few parts of Yorkshire and the results announced the following day generally reflected a national pattern of a big rise in support for Reform UK, continuing improved support for the Liberal Democrats, a decline in support for Labour and big drop in support for the Conservatives.

There was a mayoral election for a new Combined Authority for Hull and East Yorkshire where Reform UK candidate Luke Campbell was elected with nearly 36% of the vote compared with his next nearest rival, the Liberal Democrat candidate, with nearly 28%.

There were elections for a mayor, district councillors and parish councillors in the Doncaster metropolitan district where Labour mayor Ros Jones was re-elected. But in the election for all the Doncaster metropolitan district councillors Reform UK made many gains across the wards and easily became the majority party. In most places one would say Reform UK had taken control of the council, but with Doncaster being in the relatively rare position of having an elected city mayor and with Labour continuing to take that leadership it left many people wondering how that would work.

In Yorkshire's borderlands in Lancashire and Durham, which both contain parts of our historic county, there were landslide victories for Reform UK at the expense of both Labour and the Conservatives.

At the parish tier of local government the election date also included elections for new town councils for the town areas of Harrogate and Scarborough. They were the only areas of

North Yorkshire left without parish council level of government when North Yorkshire became a unitary authority in 2023 with the abolition of seven district councils including the much-wider Harrogate and Scarborough district authorities. There are 412 parish and town councils within North Yorkshire and a further 160 parish meetings. The Liberal Democrats won 15 out of 19 seats in the first Harrogate Town Council election and Reform UK won 11 out of 15 seats on Scarborough Town Council.