Hertfordshire local elections 2026: Labour maintains most councillors in Welwyn Hatfield Borough

After the 2026 local elections, the borough council is made up of 16 Labour councillors, 15 Liberal Democrats, 12 Conservatives, three Reform UK politicians, and two independent councillors.

This means no party holds a majority of 25 needed to have full control of the borough. Roughly a third of the seats within the council were contested at yesterday’s election.

Here are the full results:

BROOKMANS PARK AND LITTLE HEATH – CON HOLD Barrett, Sheila (Labour Party) – 171 Carpenter, Graham (Reform UK) – 666 Green, Anthony (Liberal Democrats) – 144 Mabbutt, Stephanie (Green Party) – 326 Molinaro, Mia (Heritage Party) – 12 Stanbury, Craig (Conservative Party) – 1119 (ELECTED)

HALDENS – REFORM WIN Ellingworth, Sarah (Labour Party) – 513 Hellyer, Alastair (Conservative Party) – 290 Musk, Lucy (Green Party) – 326 Protic, Elena (Liberal Democrats) – 425 Redmond, John (Reform UK) – 632 (ELECTED)

HANDSIDE – LIB DEM HOLD Harrison, Caleb (Green Party) – 251 Johnson, Jane (Reform UK) – 541 Lowe, Jane (Conservative Party) – 445 Moore, Gemma (Liberal Democrats) – 1330 (ELECTED) Plume, Stephen (Labour Party) – 216

HATFIELD CENTRAL – REFORM WIN Dumitru, Ilie (Liberal Democrats) – 147 Perkins, David (Conservative Party) – 230 Phillipson, Andy (Green Party) – 265 Shah, Pankit (Labour Party) – 488 Smith, Mark (Reform UK) – 565 (ELECTED)

HATFIELD EAST – LAB WIN Brennan, Jacqueline (Liberal Democrats) – 268 Crofton, Larry (Green Party) – 448 Rose, David (Conservative Party) – 433 Shah, Vaishall (Labour Party) – 547 (ELECTED) Southwell, Michael (Reform UK) – 512

HATFIELD SOUTH WEST – LIB DEM HOLD Cetin, Negar (Conservative Party) – 207 Hussain, Kamal (Labour party) – 257 Imbir, Claudiu (Reform UK) – 492 Stasiowski, Lukasz (Liberal Democrats) – 596 (ELECTED) Swift, Georgia (Green Party) – 280

HATFIELD VILLAGES – LAB HOLD Broach, James (Labour Party) – 622 (ELECTED) Cook, Abbie (Conservative Party) – 395 Edwards, John (Liberal Democrats) – 166 Kukol, Andreas (Green Party) – 334 Whitehead, Pete (Reform UK) – 544

HOLLYBUSH – REFORM WIN Chesterman, Lynn (Labour Party) – 547 Glickman, David (Conservative Party) – 273 Powell, Callum (Reform UK) – 575 (ELECTED) Saurigny, Esther (Green Party) – 235 Siewniak, Maria (Liberal Democrats) – 107

HOWLANDS – LAB HOLD Biddle, Mark Simon (Reform UK) – 746 Chowdhuri, Jamal (Conservative Party) – 259 Holloway, Max (Labour Party) – 764 (ELECTED) Martindale, Isaac (Liberal Democrats) – 122 Taylor, Bradley (Green Party) – 257

NORTHAW AND CUFFLEY – CON HOLD Basford, Peter(Liberal Democrats) – 117 Brunt, Danny (Reform UK) – 688 Cook, Laura (Labour Party) – 97 Gregory, Ian (Green Party) – 160 Seeger, Brian (Conservative Party) – 1175 (ELECTED)

PANSHANGER – LIB DEM HOLD Artemi, Marios (Conservative Party) – 236 Cowley-French, Alice (Green Party) – 222 Green, Steve (Reform UK) – 631 Osborne, Andy (Labour Party) – 172 Ross, Lewis (Liberal Democrats) – 655 (ELECTED)

PEARTREE – LIB DEM HOLD Colpitts, Ian (Reform UK) – 486 Dickson, Tanya (Green Party) – 288 Jones, Duncan (Liberal Democrats) – 701 (ELECTED) Lewis, Darren (Labour Party) – 187 Sohrab, Emil (Conservative Party) – 93

SHERRARDS – LIB DEM HOLD Dolton, Sarah (Labour Party) – 212 Hopley, Philip (Green Party) – 251 Howgego, Tommy (Reform UK) – 488 Skoczylas, Jean-Paul (Liberal Democrats) – 994 (ELECTED) Travell, Teresa (Conservative Party) – 299

WELHAM GREEN AND HATFIELD SOUTH – LIB DEM HOLD Anandarajah, Vhalan (Reform UK) – 631 Bonfante, Sandy (Liberal Democrats) – 692 (ELECTED) Hewitt, Perry (Labour Party) – 175 Hook, Joshua (Green Party) – 199 Taylor, Michael (Conservative Party) – 358

WELWYN EAST – CON HOLD Bartlett, David (Liberal Democrats) – 319 Berrington, William (Green Party) – 365 Castle, Mark (Reform UK) – 607 Costello, Peter (Labour Party) – 344 Hunt, Claire (Conservative Party) – 883 (ELECTED) Morrison, Andrew (Green Party) – 339 Payne, Jason (Liberal Democrats) – 261 Reyner, Durk (Conservative Party) – 788 (ELECTED) Robinson, John (Reform UK) – 514 Von Bulow, George (Labour Party) – 276

WELWYN WEST – CON HOLD Armstrong, Richard (Reform UK) – 666 Cloke, Rosalind (Labour Party) – 197 Cox, David (Green Party) – 380 Godfrey, Jojo (Liberal Democrats) – 171 Thusu, Sunny (Conservative Party) – 987 (ELECTED)