Devon County Council elections

Devon County Council elections are held every four years in order to elect the members of Devon County Council. Since the last boundary changes in 2017 the council has comprised 60 councillors, representing 58 electoral divisions.^[1] Since 1998, Plymouth and Torbay have been unitary authorities, making them independent of Devon County Council.^[2]

Year	Conservative	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Labour	Reform	Green^[b]	Liberal	UKIP	NDM	SDP^[c]	Independent	Council control after election
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1973^[3]	54	11	20	–	–	–	–	1	–	12		Conservative
1977^[3]	85	2	3		–			1		7		Conservative
1981^[3]	65	10	16		0			1		6		Conservative
1985^[d]^[3]	37	36	10		0			0		2		No overall control
1989^[3]	55	12	13		0			–	2	3		Conservative
1993^[5]	19	39	21		0	1			0	5		No overall control
1997^[e]^[7]	13	31	4		0	2			–	4		Liberal Democrats
2001^[8]^[9]	22	21	5		0	2	0			4		No overall control
2005^[f]^[11]^[12]	23	33	4		0	0	0			2		Liberal Democrats
2009^[13]^[14]	41	14	4		1	0	0			2		Conservative
2013^[15]	38	9	7		1	0	4			3		Conservative
2017^[g]^[16]	42	7	7		1	0	0			3		Conservative
2021^[17]	39	9	7	0	2	–	0			3		Conservative
2025^[18]	7	27	0	18	6	–	–			2		No overall control

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,339	61.7	−16.5
	Conservative	414	19.1	−2.8
	Liberal Democrats	345	15.9	+15.9
		72	3.3	+3.3
Majority		925	42.6
Turnout		2,170	23.0
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,036	59.4	+10.3
	Conservative	336	19.3	−7.0
	Liberal Democrats	282	16.2	−2.7
	Liberal	90	5.2	−0.5
Majority		700	40.1
Turnout		1,744
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,163	45.5	+27.5
	Liberal Democrats	700	27.4	−3.9
	Labour	695	27.3	+15.9
Majority		463	18.1
Turnout		2,558	32.0
	Conservative gain from Independent	Swing

Council elections

Bradnich and Creedy By-Election 31 March 1999
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,811	51.0	+7.7
	Liberal Democrats	1,505	42.4	+4.6
	Labour	150	4.2	−5.4
	Liberal	82	2.3	−6.9
Majority		306	8.6
Turnout		3,548	40.0
	Conservative hold	Swing

Exeter St Davids and Pennsylvania By-Election 26 February 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Hobden	1,330	41.3	+7.3
	Conservative	Jeffrey Coates	1,090	33.8	+3.0
	Labour	Lesley Robson	452	14.0	−13.0
	Independent	Sylvia Hardy	351	10.9	+10.9
Majority			240	7.5
Turnout			3,223	26.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Yealmpton By-Election 2 March 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Mumford	1,530	49.5	+3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Baldry	1,421	46.0	+3.1
	Labour	David Trigger	140	4.5	+4.5
Majority			109	3.5
Turnout			3,091	35.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Alphington and Cowick By-Election 13 July 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Vanessa Newcombe	1,265	39.3	−4.5
	Conservative	Margaret Baldwin	1,211	37.6	+17.8
	Labour	Allan Hart	568	17.7	−8.7
	Green	Andrew Bell	174	5.4	+0.8
Majority			54	1.7
Turnout			3,218	30.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing