Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Ashfield Independents holds a majority on Ashfield District Council
Sutton in Ashfield is run by Ashfield District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. Ashfield Independents has a majority on Ashfield District Council. Reform UK has a majority on Nottinghamshire County Council. Its MP is Lee Anderson (Reform UK), member for Ashfield.
£2,597
Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.
Where it goes →How Sutton in Ashfield’s politics has changed since 2021
A majority on Ashfield District Council
Ashfield Independents holds a majority on Ashfield District Council: 32 of its 35 seats as elected. The Conservatives hold 2, Labour 1. Who’s in charge ↓
Nottinghamshire changed hands in 2025
Nottinghamshire County Council, which runs schools, social care and roads, went from a Conservative majority (36 of 66 seats in 2021) to a Reform UK majority at the May 2025 election: Reform UK won 41 of 66 seats. Nottinghamshire ↓
Council tax
A Band D bill in Sutton in Ashfield is £2,597 for 2026–27; Ashfield District Council keeps 8% of it. The council area’s Band D has risen 51% 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 Sutton in Ashfield’s councils
Seats by party as elected. A party needs 18 of Ashfield’s 35 or 34 of Nottinghamshire’s 66 seats to run the council alone.
- Ashfield Independents32
- Conservative2
- Labour1
Latest election: May 2023.
- Reform UK41+41
- Conservative18−18
- Labour4−11
- Ashfield Independents1−9
- Broxtowe Alliance1+1
- Broxtowe Independent Group1+1
- Independent0−4
- Liberal Democrat0−1
Change against the council before the 1 May 2025 election.
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, no parish tier
Sutton in Ashfield has two tiers of council: the county runs the big services, the district the local ones.
Bins and recycling, planning, housing, environmental health, leisure, and collecting council tax.
Website ↗Schools, social care, roads and transport, libraries and waste disposal.
Website ↗Transport, skills and regeneration across several council areas. It is led by an elected mayor.
Mayor: Claire Ward (Labour and Co-operative), elected May 2024
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.
All of Sutton in Ashfield is unparished: there is no parish or town council, so the council runs local matters itself and no parish precept is added to the bill.
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 council to Westminster
Every elected tier that speaks for Sutton in Ashfield, from the most recent elections.
- 1Ashfield District Council9 wards · 12 councillorsAshfield Independents 11 · Labour 1 · all 12
- 2Nottinghamshire County Council4 divisions · 4 councillorsJoseph RichTerry CoxAlan BiteCathy Mason
- 3Mayor of East Midlands Combined County AuthorityEast Midlands Combined County Authority · elected May 2024Claire Ward
- 4Police and crime commissionerNottinghamshire Police · elected May 2024Gary Godden
- 5House of CommonsAshfield
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.
12 councillors for 9 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.
- Samantha DeakinAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Vicki HeslopAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Jodine Ocean CronshawAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Will BostockAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Sarah Jayne MadiganAshfield Independents · May 2023
- David Thomas WaltersAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Cathy MasonLabour · May 2023
- Kier BarsbyAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Matt RelfAshfield Independents · May 2023
- John Frederick SmallridgeAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Tom HollisAshfield Independents · May 2023
- Paul Ernest GraftonAshfield Independents · May 2023
Show as a table, with Nottinghamshire County Council’s 4 divisions (4 councillors)
| Ward | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Central & New Crossall in Sutton in Ashfield · 7,822 residents2 seats · May 2023 | 2 | Samantha DeakinVicki Heslop | May 2023 |
| Skegbymostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 4,733 residents2 seats · May 2023 | 2 | Jodine Ocean CronshawWill Bostock | May 2023 |
| Leamingtonall in Sutton in Ashfield · 4,119 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | Sarah Jayne Madigan | May 2023 |
| Ashfieldsall in Sutton in Ashfield · 3,987 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | David Thomas Walters | May 2023 |
| Carsicall in Sutton in Ashfield · 3,791 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | Cathy Mason | May 2023 |
| Sutton St Mary'sall in Sutton in Ashfield · 3,636 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | Kier Barsby | May 2023 |
| Sutton Junction & Harlow Woodmostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 3,169 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | Matt Relf | May 2023 |
| The Dalesmostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 2,971 residents1 seat · May 2023 | 1 | John Frederick Smallridge | May 2023 |
| Huthwaite & Brierley29% in Sutton in Ashfield · 2,207 residents2 seats · May 2023 | 2 | Tom HollisPaul Ernest Grafton | May 2023 |
Nottinghamshire County Council: county divisions
| Division | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Central & East EDall in Sutton in Ashfield · 10,991 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Joseph Rich | May 2025 |
| Sutton West EDmostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 9,634 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Terry Cox | May 2025 |
| Ashfields EDmostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 8,106 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Alan Bite | May 2025 |
| Sutton North EDmostly in Sutton in Ashfield · 7,704 residents1 seat · May 2025 | 1 | Cathy Mason | May 2025 |
Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Ashfield District 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).
Ashfield council election, May 2023
Results in the wards that make up Sutton in Ashfield, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.
9 wards voted. Every seat in the town’s wards was up.
No election is scheduled yet for Sutton in Ashfield’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.
Who can I vote for? ↗2,669 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each
3,106 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each
732 votes for candidates
Every ward’s result (6 more)
921 votes for candidates
732 votes for candidates
925 votes for candidates
951 votes for candidates
772 votes for candidates
3,828 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each
Candidates and results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), from councils’ declared results; polling dates from Democracy Club’s EveryElection.
Sutton in Ashfield is in Ashfield constituency
The constituency’s MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result (it reaches beyond Sutton in Ashfield).
39,882 votes for candidates · majority 5,508
Reform UK, MP since 12 December 2019.
turnout in July 2024: 39,882 votes from 68,929 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 5,508 of 39,882 votes (13.8%): the 269th-narrowest of 543 in England.
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.
Sutton in Ashfield’s Band D council tax is £2,597 a year
Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.
Ashfield District Council keeps £213.20 of a Band D bill (8%); the rest goes to Nottinghamshire County Council, the Nottinghamshire police and crime commissioner and the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Authority.
Band D since 1993
Ashfield’s Band D bill has risen 51% in ten years, from £1,728.51 in 2016–17, against England’s average (56%). It was £595.13 in 1993–94.
Your bill by band
A Band D home in the unparished part of Ashfield, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.
Nottinghamshire’s councils
Average Band D in each council area, 2026–27, parish precepts included. Bars start at £2,500.
Council budgets per resident, 2026–27
Show as a table, with Nottinghamshire
| Ashfield + Nottinghamshire | Sutton in Ashfield’s councils | Nottinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult social care | £505 | £510 | £487 |
| Children’s social care | £275 | £310 | £290 |
| Roads and transport | £40 | £65 | £41 |
| Housing (not council homes’ rents) | £31 | £39 | £61 |
| Bins, street cleaning, environment | £117 | £116 | £119 |
| Libraries, leisure, culture | £14 | £38 | £44 |
| Planning and development | £36 | £32 | £26 |
| Public health | £68 | £90 | £78 |
| Running the council | £62 | £49 | £59 |
| Other | £23 | £38 | £19 |
| Total, schools apart | £1,172 | £1,287 | £1,234 |
Net budgeted service spending, MHCLG Revenue Account budget 2026–27, per resident (ONS mid-2025 estimates). Both tiers added: Ashfield per its residents plus Nottinghamshire 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. Nottinghamshire 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 Sutton in Ashfield 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.
ashfield.gov.uk ↗Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.
ashfield.gov.uk ↗The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.
Electoral Commission ↗Questions about how Sutton in Ashfield is run
Which council runs Sutton in Ashfield?
The county council runs schools, social care and roads; the district runs bins, planning and housing.
Does Sutton in Ashfield have a town council?
No. Sutton in Ashfield is unparished, so there is no town or parish council and no parish precept.
Who is the MP for Sutton in Ashfield?
Lee Anderson (Reform UK) is the MP for Ashfield, which covers Sutton in Ashfield.
How many councillors does Sutton in Ashfield have?
12 ward councillors represent Sutton in Ashfield’s 9 wards, and 4 county councillors its county divisions.
When are the next elections in Sutton in Ashfield?
No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Sutton in Ashfield’s wards. The next UK general election must be held by August 2029.
How much is council tax in Sutton in Ashfield?
Band D council tax in Sutton in Ashfield is £2,597 for 2026–27. Your bill depends on your home’s band, from A (6/9 of Band D) to H (18/9).
Who controls Ashfield District Council?
Ashfield Independents has a majority: 32 of 35 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.
Who controls Nottinghamshire County Council?
Reform UK has a majority: 41 of 66 seats as elected.
Who won the 2023 council election in Sutton in Ashfield?
In Sutton in Ashfield’s wards on 4 May 2023, Ashfield Independents 11 · Labour 1 of the 12 seats up. Ashfield Independents had the largest share of votes, 45.1%.
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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