Weston-super-Mare, in the North Somerset council area — Weston-super-Mare: a photograph of the North Somerset area, not of Hutton & Locking itself. mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Hutton & Locking by-election

Polls closed on 10 September 2026 from 7am to 10pm. One seat on North Somerset, contested by 5 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.

Georgina BarryLiberal Democrats
James Willis-BodenGreen Party
John Edward StandfieldConservative and Unionist Party
William Oliver JonesReform UK
Yue He ParkinsonLabour 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.

Every by-election, ward by ward