Roman Catholic Church of St Mary · Photo: Phil Platt · CC BY-SA 2.0Labour holds a majority on Chorley Council
Euxton is run by Chorley Council, South Ribble Borough Council and Lancashire County Council, with Euxton parish council for local matters. Labour has a majority on Chorley Council and South Ribble Borough Council. Reform UK has a majority on Lancashire County Council. Most of Euxton is in Chorley (MP Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker); 22% of residents are in South Ribble (MP Mr Paul Foster, Labour).
£2,444
Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.
Where it goes →How Euxton’s politics has changed since 2021
A majority on Chorley Council
Labour holds a majority on Chorley Council: 30 of its 42 seats as elected (it held 37 before the May 2026 election). Reform UK holds 7, the Conservatives 4 and the Greens 1. Who’s in charge ↓
Lancashire changed hands in 2025
Lancashire County Council, which runs schools, social care and roads, went from a Conservative majority (47 of 84 seats in 2021) to a Reform UK majority at the May 2025 election: Reform UK won 53 of 84 seats. Lancashire ↓
The 2026 vote
Across Euxton’s wards, Reform UK took 33.2%, the Conservatives took 27.3% and Labour took 26.4% of votes in May 2026. In 2024, Reform UK had 0%. How Euxton has voted ↓
Council tax
A Band D bill in Euxton is £2,449 for 2026–27; Chorley Council keeps 9% of it. The council area’s Band D has risen 52% in ten years, against England’s 56%. Council money ↓
Written from the data on this page: Democracy Club results since May 2021, the UK Parliament Members API and MHCLG council tax.
Who holds the seats on Euxton’s councils
Seats by party as elected. A party needs 22 of Chorley’s 42 or 26 of South Ribble’s 50 or 43 of Lancashire’s 84 seats to run the council alone.
- Labour30−7
- Reform UK7+6
- Conservative4no change
- Green1+1
Change against the council before the 7 May 2026 election.
- Labour28
- Conservative17
- Liberal Democrat5
Latest election: May 2023.
- Reform UK53+53
- Conservative8−39
- Independent7+7
- Labour5−28
- Liberal Democrat5+3
- Green4+2
- Our West Lancashire2+2
Seats are counted from election results: each ward’s most recent winners until its seats are filled. Councillors who have since changed party or resigned aren’t reflected, and which parties lead the council, and who is leader, comes from the council itself.
Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), elections since May 2021; seats per ward from its EveryElection.
Two tiers of council, and a parish tier
Euxton has two tiers of council: the county runs the big services, the district the local ones.
Local matters: allotments, play areas, halls, footpaths and benches; it is consulted on planning and adds a precept to the council tax bill. A town council is a parish council by another name.
75% of Euxton’s residents · Band D precept £44
The parish council for the part of Euxton inside Whittle-le-Woods parish.
Who runs Euxton: same source as Who runs Euxton, above.
Bins and recycling, planning, housing, environmental health, leisure, and collecting council tax.
85% of Euxton’s residents
Website ↗Bins and recycling, planning, housing, environmental health, leisure, and collecting council tax.
Who runs Euxton: same source as Who runs Euxton, above.
Website ↗Schools, social care, roads and transport, libraries and waste disposal.
Website ↗Transport, skills and regeneration across several council areas.
Who to ask
From GOV.UK’s “Understand how your council works”: in two-tier areas the district or borough runs local services and the county the big ones.
15% of Euxton’s residents live outside any parish, with no parish council.
Councils from ONS lookups (wards and councils May 2026, parishes 2025), names and websites from GOV.UK’s local council finder; parish councils from MHCLG’s 2026–27 list of precepting parishes.
From the parish to Westminster
Every elected tier that speaks for Euxton, from the most recent elections.
- 1Town or parish2 parish councilsEuxton parish councilWhittle-le-Woods parish council
- 2Council wards4 wards · 11 councillorsLabour 6 · Conservative 4 · Reform UK 1 · all 11
- 3Lancashire County Council2 divisions · 2 councillorsAidy RiggottEllie Close
- 4Police and crime commissionerLancashire Constabulary · elected May 2024Clive Grunshaw
- 5House of CommonsSplit between 2 constituencies
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. Tap an MP’s name for their contact page on parliament.uk.
11 councillors for 4 wards
Wards with at least 2% of the town’s residents, or half their own inside it. Each shows who won its most recent elections, newest first, until its seats are filled.
- Jonathan CloseReform UK · May 2026
- Danny GeeLabour and Co-operative · May 2024
- Joan WilliamsonLabour · May 2023
- Dedrah Cecilia MossLabour · May 2026
- Aidy RiggottConservative · June 2025 · by-election
- Russell Charles GreenLabour · May 2024
- Pete PillingerLabour · May 2023
- Wes RobertsLabour · May 2023
- Alan John PlattConservative · May 2026
- Debra PlattConservative · May 2024
- Craige SouthernConservative · May 2023
Show as a table, with Lancashire County Council’s 2 divisions (2 councillors)
| Ward | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuxtonChorley · mostly in Euxton · 7,200 residents3 seats · May 2026, May 2024, May 2023 | 3 | Jonathan CloseDanny GeeJoan Williamson | May 2026, May 2024, May 2023 |
| Buckshaw & WhittleChorley · mostly in Euxton · 6,551 residents3 seats · May 2026, June 2025, May 2024 | 3 | Dedrah Cecilia MossAidy Riggottby-electionRussell Charles Green | May 2026, June 2025, May 2024 |
| Buckshaw & WordenSouth Ribble · mostly in Euxton · 2,658 residents2 seats · May 2023 | 2 | Pete PillingerWes Roberts | May 2023 |
| Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton SouthChorley · 12% in Euxton · 1,110 residents3 seats · May 2026, May 2024, May 2023 | 3 | Alan John PlattDebra PlattCraige Southern | May 2026, May 2024, May 2023 |
Lancashire County Council: county divisions
| Division | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euxton, Buckshaw & Astley EDmostly in Euxton · 14,861 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Aidy Riggott | May 2025 |
| Leyland South ED20% in Euxton · 2,658 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Ellie Close | May 2025 |
Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Chorley Council’s website lists who sits now.
Results from Democracy Club’s candidates database (CC BY 4.0; elections since May 2021) and ward seats from its EveryElection, matched to ONS wards (May 2026) and county divisions (May 2025).
Who led each council vote, 2021–2026
Share of all votes cast for candidates in Euxton’s wards at each scheduled council election since 2021. A gap is a year with no election here.
Seats won at each election
Show as a table
| Party | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 4.1% | 5.6% | 5% | 9.4% | 11.3% |
| Labour | 38.6% | 45.9% | 49.6% | 51.2% | 26.4% |
| Liberal Democrat | 4.3% | 9.4% | 3.5% | 1.7% | 1.5% |
| Conservative | 51.5% | 39% | 41.9% | 37.7% | 27.3% |
| Reform UK | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 33.2% |
In 2026, Labour won 1, the Conservatives won 1 and Reform UK won 1 of the 3 seats up in Euxton’s wards.
Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0). Where a ward elects several councillors at once, each voter has that many votes; all of them count here.
Chorley council election, May 2026
Results in the wards that make up Euxton, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.
3 wards voted. Chorley elects a third of its councillors at a time, so a third of the seats were up.
No election is scheduled yet for Euxton’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.
Who can I vote for? ↗2,649 votes for candidates
2,569 votes for candidates
3,078 votes for candidates
Candidates and results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), from councils’ declared results; polling dates from Democracy Club’s EveryElection.
Euxton is split between 2 constituencies
The constituencies’ MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result.
Speaker, MP since 1 May 1997
78% of Euxton’s residents live in this constituency.
Turnout 45% (England 60%).
Majority 20,575 of 33,964 votes (60.6%): wider than in 100% of England’s 543 constituencies.
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024
22% of Euxton’s residents live in this constituency.
Turnout 64% (England 60%).
Majority 6,501 of 46,720 votes (13.9%): wider than in 50% of England’s 543 constituencies.
33,964 votes for candidates · majority 20,575
Speaker, MP since 1 May 1997.
turnout in July 2024: 33,964 votes from 74,801 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 20,575 of 33,964 votes (60.6%): wider than in 100% of England’s 543 constituencies.
South Ribble
46,720 votes for candidates · majority 6,501
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024.
turnout in July 2024: 46,720 votes from 73,420 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 6,501 of 46,720 votes (13.9%): wider than in 50% of England’s 543 constituencies.
MPs and results: UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0); constituencies from ONS (2024 boundaries). Percentages are of valid votes; turnout is votes cast over the electorate.
Euxton’s Band D council tax is £2,449 a year
Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.
Chorley Council keeps £215.99 of a Band D bill (9%); the rest goes to the Euxton parish council, Lancashire County Council, the Lancashire police and crime commissioner and the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Authority.
Across the whole town the average Band D is £2,444 (parishes differ; weighted by residents).
Band D since 1993
Chorley’s Band D bill has risen 52% in ten years, from £1,595.14 in 2016–17, against England’s average (56%). It was £613.13 in 1993–94.
Your bill by band
A Band D home in Euxton, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.
Lancashire’s councils
Average Band D in each council area, 2026–27, parish precepts included; the 11 nearest of 14. Bars start at £2,200.
Council budgets per resident, 2026–27
Show as a table, with Lancashire
| Chorley + Lancashire | Euxton’s councils | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult social care | £522 | £533 | £487 |
| Children’s social care | £249 | £295 | £290 |
| Roads and transport | £40 | £44 | £41 |
| Housing (not council homes’ rents) | £11 | £24 | £61 |
| Bins, street cleaning, environment | £126 | £135 | £119 |
| Libraries, leisure, culture | £67 | £56 | £44 |
| Planning and development | £10 | £16 | £26 |
| Public health | £78 | £92 | £78 |
| Running the council | £91 | £73 | £59 |
| Other | £0 | £13 | £19 |
| Total, schools apart | £1,194 | £1,281 | £1,234 |
Net budgeted service spending, MHCLG Revenue Account budget 2026–27, per resident (ONS mid-2025 estimates). Both tiers added: Chorley per its residents plus Lancashire per the county’s. Schools are left out: academies are paid for directly by government, so council school budgets depend on how many schools have converted. Lancashire and England: all their councils together. Police, fire and transport authorities aren’t included.
Band D: MHCLG Band D council tax 2026–27 (each authority’s own figure, excluding parish precepts) and Council Tax statistics for town and parish councils 2026–27; since 1993–94, MHCLG’s area averages including parishes.
Having a say in how Euxton is run
It takes about five minutes online; the deadline is 12 working days before a poll.
gov.uk ↗Type a postcode to write to each of its councillors and its MP.
WriteToThem ↗GOV.UK sends the report to the council that looks after the road.
gov.uk ↗Council and committee meetings are open to the public, with agendas and minutes online.
chorley.gov.uk ↗Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.
chorley.gov.uk ↗The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.
Electoral Commission ↗Questions about how Euxton is run
Which council runs Euxton?
Euxton is run by Chorley Council, South Ribble Borough Council and Lancashire County Council. The county council runs schools, social care and roads; the district runs bins, planning and housing.
Does Euxton have a town council?
Yes: Euxton has its own parish-tier council (Euxton parish council; town councils are parish councils by another name), which adds £44 to a Band D bill in 2026–27.
Who is the MP for Euxton?
Euxton is split between 2 constituencies: Chorley (Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker) and South Ribble (Mr Paul Foster, Labour). Parliament’s Find your MP service matches a postcode to its MP.
How many councillors does Euxton have?
11 ward councillors represent Euxton’s 4 wards, and 2 county councillors its county divisions.
When are the next elections in Euxton?
No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Euxton’s wards. The next UK general election must be held by August 2029.
How much is council tax in Euxton?
Band D council tax in Euxton is £2,444 for 2026–27. Your bill depends on your home’s band, from A (6/9 of Band D) to H (18/9).
Who controls Chorley Council?
Labour has a majority: 30 of 42 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.
Who won the 2026 council election in Euxton?
In Euxton’s wards on 7 May 2026, Labour 1 · Conservative 1 · Reform UK 1 of the 3 seats up. Reform UK had the largest share of votes, 33.2%.
Sources: ONS ward, county division, parish, constituency lookups (Census 2021 output areas; Open Government Licence v3.0) · GOV.UK local council finder · Democracy Club candidates (CC BY 4.0) and EveryElection · UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0) · MHCLG Band D council tax, parish precepts and Revenue Account budgets 2026–27 (OGL v3.0) · ONS mid-2025 population estimates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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