Dover, in the Dover council area — Dover: a photograph of the Dover area, not of Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe itself. Eluveitie / CC BY-SA 3.0

Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe by-election

Polls closed on 27 August 2026 from 7am to 10pm. One seat on Dover, contested by 6 candidates.

Polls have closed and the count is under way. We will publish the result here once the council declares it. We would rather leave this blank than print a projection.

Who is standing

Every candidate on the ballot paper, in alphabetical order, exactly as the council published them.

David Arthur HawkesConservative and Unionist Party
Graham Richard WanstallIndependent
Ingrid DoddGreen Party
James Robert DefriendReform UK
Jez HermerRestore Britain
Steve WisbeyLabour Party

Party names link to our own page on where that party stands. Candidates standing as independents, or for parties we do not cover, are listed without a link rather than pointed somewhere that does not describe them.

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