Reform UK won all Nottinghamshire County Coucil seats in Ashfield bar one – the only area retained by the Ashfield Independents.
The results were key to Reform winning a total of 40 seats – and overall control of the council with a wide 23 seat majority. The Conservatives won 17 seats and Labour won four.
Although they retain control of Ashfield District Council – which was not part of Thursday’s poll – all but one of their 10 County Council seats went to Reform UK.
Nottinghamshire residents headed to the polls on Thursday, May 1 to vote for local councillors in 66 seats across 55 divisions.
Votes in Ashfield were counted at Kirkby Leisure Centre in
John Wilmott Anthony Wilmott (Ash Ind) won the group’s solitary Hucknall North seat with 1,231 votes, – 230 more than Sean Richard Neale (Reform UK) who stood at 1,001 votes.
Ashfield District Council leader, and former Notts County Council opposition leader, Jason Zadrozny, lost his seat to Reform after 18 years of being on the County Council.
He said: “I’m really disappointed,
“I’ve been on the County Council 18 years and I tried my best to do a good job.
“So personally, it’s a bit bruising.”
“Sometimes the big political parties take a tsunami – and that’s what’s been happening across the country.”
Ashfield’s Reform MP Lee Anderson said it was an “unbelievable feeling” seeing his party win over the district.
He said: “We’ve been building our branch up, we’ve been campaigning, the hard work has paid off.
“People want real change, they want a little bit of honesty in politics.
“It’s democracy – the best people have won on the day.”
It is likely the last-ever Nottinghamshire County Council election in its current format due to ongoing local government reform which could see councils overhauled and new “strategic authorities” and combined councils created between 2027 and 2028.
Full Ashfield results below:
Kirby North results:
Andy Meakin (Ash Ind) 1,105
Christine Jennifer Self (Conservatives) 78
Sean Andrew White (Labour) 294
Simon Wright (Reform UK) 1,604 (E)
Ashfield:
Alan Byte (Reform UK) 1,687 (E)
John Coxhead (Labour) 311
Dawn Hodgman (Conservatives) 81
Kerry Thornton (Independent) 183
Jason Zadrozny (Ash Ind) 1,015
Selston:
Patrick Stephen Ayres (Labour) 457
Darro Darrington (Reform UK) 1,289 (E)
James Alan Harvey (Liberal Democrats) 127
Jan Lees (Local Conservatives) 208
Lee Waters (Ash Ind) 1,081
Kirby South:
Rory Green (Reform UK) 2,082 (E)
Christopher John Huskinson (Ash Ind) 684
Paul Raymond Linfield (Green) 54
Julia Long (Labour) 588
Jeffery Self (Conservatives) 101
Hucknall West:
Chris Adegoke (Reform UK) 1,208 (E)
Baz Duckhouse (Independent) 164
Kevin Thomas Rostance (Local Conservatives) 510
David Paul Shaw (Ash Ind) 844
Joe Watkinson (Labour and Co-op) 377
Hucknall South:
Patrick Stephen Ayres (Labour) 457
Darro Darrington (Reform UK) 1,289 (E)
James Alan Harvey (Liberal Democrats) 127
Jan Lees (Local Conservatives) 208
Lee Waters (Ash Ind) 1,081
Selston:
Tai Adegbite (Labour) 279
Will Grover (Conservatives) 125
Dawn Justice (Reform UK) 2,389 (E)
David Bernard Martin (Ash Ind) 1,156
Margret Ann Wilson (Green Party) 201
Sutton West results:
Terry Cox (Reform UK) 2,120 (E)
Elaine Havercroft (Green Party) 117
Tom Hollis (Ash Ind) 1,332
Stefan Lamb (Labour) 338
Steve Walmsley (Conservative) 74
Hucknall North results:
Martin Alan Howes (Liberal Democrats) 178
Aimee Elizabeth Kimpton (Labour) 438
Rachel Elizabeth Kotze (Local Conservatives) 277
Sean Richard Neale (Reform UK) 1,001
John Morton Anthony Wilmott (Ash Ind) 1,231 (E)
Sutton Central:
Paul Craddock (Ash Ind) 950
Jack Stuart Middleton (Conservatives) 146
Ethan Tyler Revill (Labour and Co-operative) 293
Joseph Rich (Reform UK) 1,644 (E)
Sutton North:
Cathy Mason (Reform UK) 2,362 (E)
Arran Rangi (Green) 137
Helen-Ann Smith (Ash Ind) 1,008
Keith Townsend (Local Conservatives) 91
George Watson (Labour) 105
Hucknall West results:
Chris Adegoke (Reform UK) 1,208 (E)
Baz Duckhouse (Independent) 164
Kevin Thomas Rostance (Local Conservatives) 510
David Paul Shaw (Ash Ind) 844
Joe Watkinson (Labour and Co-op) 377
