Reform UK has taken eight of the nine South Holland seats on Lincolnshire County Council with its candidate Andrea Jenkyns also being elected mayor.
The party officially gained five seats and held three following Rob Gibson (Spalding East), Manzur Hasan (Spalding West) and Jane King (Donington Rural)’s defections to it earlier this year.
Crowland and Holbeach were previously held by Nigel Pepper and Tracey Carter for the Conservatives, neither of whom stood this time around.
Reform took both as Raymond Condell comfortably beat Conservative Andrew Woolf for Crowland while Thomas Sneath had more than double the votes of any other candidate in Holbeach.
Peter Coupland lost his Holbeach Rural seat to Neil Carey, long standing county councillor Elizabeth Sneath lost the Spalding Elloe post to Ingrid Sheard and Robbie Woods took the three way fight for The Suttons, seeing off the competition of the two previous councillors that held it, Conservative Jack Tyrrell and South Holland Independent Chris Brewis.
It was nearly a perfect night for Reform in the district, but their candidate for Spalding South, Philip Webb, missed out by 34 votes to Conservative Gary Taylor.
Not all the results for Lincolnshire County Council have been announced at the time of writing, but Reform look certain to be the biggest party and control the authority.
The first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire will be Jenkyns who had 42 per cent of the vote with Conservative Rob Waltham in second with 26 per cent. She also enjoyed the majority of votes in South Holland, 10,454.
In her victory speech, Jenkyns, who was previously a Conservative MP in Yorkshire from 2015 to 2025 when that party was in power, said her new party ‘would help start rebuilding Britain’.
She continued: “For the people of Lincolnshire, thank you for putting your trust in me. “I will work tirelessly for you every day.
“We’ll make sure you are at the front of the queue and at the heart of our policy decisions.”
After initially thanking her campaign staff and those involved in the election count, she launched into a venomous attack on her opponents, lambasting the campaign as the worst she has fought.
Dame Andrea also called for ‘illegal migrants’, or asylum seekers being processed, to be put up in tents instead of hotels. The trio of other candidates on the stage, Labour’s Jason Stockwood, Lincolnshire Independent, Marianne Overton, and Conservative Rob Waltham walked out during her speech.
“I say no to putting people in hotels,” Dame Andrea said in her speech, vowing Reform UK would tackle illegal migration. “Tents are good enough for France, they should be good enough for here in Britain.”
When asked by the BBC about the remarks in a subsequent press pool, Dame Andrea doubled down, and claimed: “I think that’s what the silent majority think.”
She added: “Illegal migrants, people who come here illegally, should be put in tents.
Meanwhile, Dame Andrea said, in recent weeks, she had “never experienced such negativity and soul-destroying campaigns against me like this one”.
She cited the challenge against her candidacy’s listed address validity among several claims of ‘dirty’ tactics by opponents. “The dirty tricks of the US politics I believe has now been imported here into Britain,” she said.
She also said, in an apparent reference to the Green Party’s Sally Horscroft: “The campaign was also filled with irony as one of the candidates stated I was parachuted in. She said it with her South African accent.” She defended this comment later in a press pool as irony.
Dame Andrea said, however, in her victory speech she would “draw a line under” the “dirty tricks” she claimed of her opponents. Dame Andrea promised to “fight” for the people of Lincolnshire and concluded her victory speech: “I will keep your taxes low, I will work with you, with our industries, with our business, and with our young people. Together, it’s time to heal, we will deliver once in a generation change. I will lead with a sword of common sense and cut through wastage and bureaucracy.”
Greater Lincolnshire Mayoral Election
- Sally Horscroft – Green Party, 15,040 (6.02 per cent)
- Dame Andrea Jenkyns – Reform UK, 104,133 (41.69 per cent) – ELECTED
- Marianne Overton – Lincolnshire Independents, 19,911 (7.98 per cent)
- Jason Stockwood – Labour Party, 30,384 (12.16 per cent)
- Rob Waltham – Conservative Party, 64,585 (25.86 per cent)
- Trevor Young – Liberal Democrats, 13,728 (5.50 per cent).
Rejected ballots 2,011. Turnout: 30.15 per cent.
Lincolnshire County Council election results:
Crowland
Brewin, Lisa Collier (Liberal Democrats) – 171
Condell, Raymond Balfor (Reform UK) – 1563 – Elected
Poulter, Charlie Alexander (Green Party) – 164
Vaughan, Patrick Joseph (Labour Party) – 185
Woolf, Andrew Rober (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 972
Donington Rural
Bingham, Henry John William (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 770
Blackman, Wendy Jane (Green Party) – 147
Burke, Leslie Christopher (Labour Party) – 110
King, Jane Lesley (Reform UK) – 1368 – Elected
Oakman, Neil Andrew (Liberal Democrats) – 145
Holbeach
Dutton, Janet Siobhan Nevin (Green Party) – 167
Hague, Sebastian (Liberal Democrats) – 100
Horder, Michael Kenton (Labour Party) – 158
Sneath, Thomas Edmund (Reform UK) – 1338 – Elected
Turner, Clive Alexander Mason (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 626
Holbeach Rural
Barnes, Paul Stephen (South Holland Independents) – 414
Blogg, Stephen David (Liberal Democrats) – 78
Carey, Neil (Reform UK) – 1347 – Elected
Coupland, Peter Ephraim (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 976
Hussain, Safir (Labour Party) – 136
Spalding East
Casson, Anthony (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 846
Clews, Elizabeth Ann (Liberal Democrats) – 155
Gibson, Robert Antony (Reform UK) – 1238 – Elected
Thomas, James David (Labour) – 176
Spalding Elloe
Blake, Martin Christopher (Green Party) – 172
Longbottom, Rebecca (Labour Party) – 146
Sheard, Ingrid Helen (Reform UK) – 1084 – Elected
Sneath, Elizabeth Jane (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 853
Snee, James Albert (Liberal Democrats) – 61
Spalding South
Allinson, Lesley Joan (Labour Party) – 155
Carless, Karen Lynn (Liberal Democrats) – 54
Le Sage, James Anthony (South Holland Independents) – 434
Taylor, Gary John (Conservative Party Candidate) – 673 – Elected
Webb, Philip John (Reform UK) – 639
Welton Stephen (Green Party) – 69
Spalding West:
Follett, Stephen George (Labour) – 159
Hasan, Manzur (Reform UK) – 863 – Elected
Taylor, Neil (Liberal Democrat) – 85
Violett, Heather Julie Irene (Green Party) – 131
Whitbourn, Janet Brenda (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 774
The Suttons
Brewis, Christopher James Thomas Harrison (South Holland Independents) – 605
Southam, Raymond Kenneth (Liberal Democrats) – 106
Tyrrell, Jack (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 617
Woods, Robbie (Reform UK) – 886 – Elected
Written in conjunction with the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
