East Sussex County Council elections

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Green	Reform UK	UKIP	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year								Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (84 seats)
1973	49	19	9	–	–	–	7		Conservative
1977	74	5	2	0	–	–	3		Conservative
1981	53	14	15	0	–	–	2		Conservative
New division boundaries (70 seats)
1985	35	14	21	0	–	–	0		No overall control
1989	38	17	15	0	–	–	0		Conservative
1993	22	18	30	0	–	–	0		No overall control
Brighton and Hove become a merged unitary authority (44 seats)
1997	21	7	16	0	–	0	0		No overall control
2001	24	7	13	0	–	0	0		Conservative
New division boundaries (49 seats)
2005	29	5	14	0	–	0	1		Conservative
2009	29	4	13	0	–	0	3		Conservative
2013	20	7	10	0	–	7	5		No overall control
New division boundaries (50 seats)
2017	30	4	11	0	–	0	5		Conservative
2021	27	5	11	4	0	0	3		Conservative
2026^[b]	3	0	13	11	22	0	1		No overall control

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon Radford-Kirby	990	49.0
	Labour	John Stevens	923	45.7
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Jones	108	5.3
Majority			67	3.3
Turnout			2,021
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	798	53.4	+15.4
	Conservative	358	24.0	−4.3
	Liberal Democrats	337	22.6	−11.1
Majority		440	29.4
Turnout		1,493	15.5
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	885	59.5	+15.7
	Liberal Democrats	343	23.1	−6.9
	Conservative	259	17.4	−5.5
Majority		542	36.4
Turnout		1,487
	Labour hold	Swing

Council composition

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,786	54.8	+12.5
	Conservative	1,476	45.2	+2.1
Majority		310	9.6
Turnout		3,262
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,027	43.9	+5.4
	Labour	773	33.0	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	542	23.1	−6.5
Majority		254	10.9
Turnout		2,342	22.7
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Kenward	1,117	61.6	+19.6
	Liberal Democrats		695	38.4	+14.7
Majority			422	23.2
Turnout			1,812	23.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Radford-Kirby	1,293	70.0	+20.1
	Liberal Democrats	Cynthia Dewick	406	22.0	−10.6
	Labour	Robert Walker	147	8.0	−9.5
Majority			887	48.0
Turnout			1,846	25.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+15.4%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Ensor	2,825	62.3	+23.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Kemp	1,191	26.3	−4.3
	Labour	Timothy Macpherson	518	11.4	−18.8
Majority			1,634	36.0
Turnout			4,534	25.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tania Charman	961	56.5	+7.3
	Conservative	Robert Cooke	368	21.6	+6.0
	UKIP	Sebastian Norton	174	10.2	−12.3
	Green	Andrea Needham	149	8.8	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Stewart Rayment	48	2.8	−1.6
Majority			593	34.9
Turnout			1,700
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Judy Rogers	1,441	46.2	+5.4
	Conservative	Martin Clarke	1,253	40.2	+6.7
	Green	Julie Hilton	214	6.9	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Stewart Rayment	212	6.8	+3.3
Majority			188	6.0
Turnout			3,120
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Deirdre Earl-Williams	1,761	51.9	+51.9
	Conservative	Martin Kenward	1,071	31.6	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Thomas	261	7.7	+2.1
	Labour	Jacque Walker	111	3.3	−3.8
	Green	Polly Gray	107	3.2	+3.2
	UKIP	Geoffrey Bastin	81	2.4	−1.2
Majority			690	20.3
Turnout			3,392
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Anne Cross	1,373	61.5	+43.0
	Conservative	Neil Waller	858	38.5	−20.7
Majority			515	23.0
Turnout			2,231
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Brett Wright	1,649	50.1	+10.1
	Conservative	Nicholas Taylor	1,361	41.3	−4.3
	Labour	David Mannion	157	4.8	−1.1
	Green	Claire Martin	127	3.9	−2.2
Majority			288	8.7
Turnout			3,294
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Ashdown and Conquest By-Election 20 November 2025^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Aidan Fisher	797	32.2	+32.2
	Green	Paula Warne	607	24.5	+16.4
	Conservative	Caroline Kerswell	494	19.9	−39.9
	Labour	Amanda Pollard	395	15.9	−7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Griffiths	129	5.2	−3.5
	Independent	Ricky Hodges	55	2.2	+2.2
Majority			190	7.7
Turnout			2,477
	Reform gain from Conservative		Swing