Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0Reform UK holds a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Doncaster is run by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. Reform UK has a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. Doncaster is split between 3 parliamentary constituencies.
£2,126
Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.
Where it goes →How Doncaster’s politics has changed since 2021
A majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Reform UK holds a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council: 38 of its 55 seats as elected (it held 0 before the May 2025 election). Labour holds 11, the Conservatives 6. Who’s in charge ↓
The 2025 vote
Across Doncaster’s wards, Reform UK took 34.7%, Labour took 32.4% and the Conservatives took 21.8% of votes in May 2025. In 2021, Reform UK had 0%. How Doncaster has voted ↓
Council tax
A Band D bill in Doncaster is £2,125 for 2026–27; Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council keeps 82% 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
Seats by party as elected. A party needs 28 of Doncaster’s 55 seats to run the council alone.
- Reform UK38+38
- Labour11−29
- Conservative6−5
- Edlington and Warmsworth First0−1
- Mexborough First0−3
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.
The councils that run Doncaster
One council runs every main service here.
Every main council service: schools, social care, roads, bins, planning, housing and libraries.
Led by an elected mayor: Ros Jones (Labour), elected May 2025
Website ↗Transport, skills and regeneration across several council areas.
Who to ask
From GOV.UK’s “Understand how your council works”: here one council runs every main service.
98% of Doncaster 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 Doncaster, from the most recent elections.
- 1Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council7 wards · 18 councillorsReform UK 7 · Labour 6 · Conservative 5 · all 18
- 2Mayor of DoncasterDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council · elected May 2025Ros Jones
- 3Police and crime commissionerSouth Yorkshire Police · elected May 2021Alan Billings
- 4House of CommonsSplit between 3 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.
18 councillors for 7 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.
- Gemma CobbyLabour · May 2025
- Majid KhanLabour · May 2025
- Rob DennisLabour · May 2025
- Guy AstonReform UK · May 2025
- Jane KiddLabour and Co-operative · May 2025
- Paul John CuttsReform UK · May 2025
- Nick AllenConservative · May 2025
- David John CarrollReform UK · May 2025
- Chris KidgerReform UK · May 2025
- Glyn JonesLabour · May 2025
- Russ LinleyReform UK · May 2025
- Ioan-Emanuel CraciunReform UK · May 2025
- Sue FarmerLabour · May 2025
- Jane Margaret CoxConservative · May 2025
- Steve CoxConservative · May 2025
- Symeon Mark WallerConservative · May 2025
- Jackie DudleyReform UK · May 2025
- Martin Damian GreenhalghConservative · May 2025
Show as a table
| Ward | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Townall in Doncaster · 22,260 residents3 seats · May 2025 | 3 | Gemma CobbyMajid KhanRob Dennis | May 2025 |
| Wheatley Hills & Intakeall in Doncaster · 17,783 residents3 seats · May 2025 | 3 | Guy AstonJane KiddPaul John Cutts | May 2025 |
| Bessacarrall in Doncaster · 14,959 residents3 seats · May 2025 | 3 | Nick AllenDavid John CarrollChris Kidger | May 2025 |
| Hexthorpe & Balby Northall in Doncaster · 11,861 residents2 seats · May 2025 | 2 | Glyn JonesRuss Linley | May 2025 |
| Balby Southall in Doncaster · 9,390 residents2 seats · May 2025 | 2 | Ioan-Emanuel CraciunSue Farmer | May 2025 |
| Finningley40% in Doncaster · 7,097 residents3 seats · May 2025 | 3 | Jane Margaret CoxSteve CoxSymeon Mark Waller | May 2025 |
| Tickhill & Wadsworth30% in Doncaster · 3,331 residents2 seats · May 2025 | 2 | Jackie DudleyMartin Damian Greenhalgh | May 2025 |
Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough 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).
The Conservatives led each vote to 2021; Reform UK led in 2025
Share of all votes cast for candidates in Doncaster’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 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Green | 9% | 4.7% |
| Labour | 41.8% | 32.4% |
| Conservative | 43% | 21.8% |
| Reform UK | 0% | 34.7% |
In 2025, Reform UK won 7, Labour won 6 and the Conservatives won 5 of the 18 seats up in Doncaster’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.
City of Doncaster council election, May 2025
Results in the wards that make up Doncaster, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.
7 wards voted. Every seat in the town’s wards was up.
No election is scheduled yet for Doncaster’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.
Who can I vote for? ↗9,934 votes for candidates · 3 seats, so 3 votes each
9,720 votes for candidates · 3 seats, so 3 votes each
11,653 votes for candidates · 3 seats, so 3 votes each
Every ward’s result (4 more)
3,525 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each
3,778 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each
14,878 votes for candidates · 3 seats, so 3 votes each
6,409 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.
Doncaster is split between 3 constituencies
The constituencies’ MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result.
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024
91% of Doncaster’s residents live in this constituency.
Turnout 51% (England 60%).
Majority 9,551 of 37,944 votes (25.2%): wider than in 78% of England’s 543 constituencies.
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024
8% of Doncaster’s residents live in this constituency.
Turnout 56% (England 60%).
Majority 2,311 of 39,132 votes (5.9%): the 115th-narrowest of 543 in England.
Labour, MP since 1 May 1997
1% of Doncaster’s residents live in this constituency.
Turnout 49% (England 60%).
Majority 6,908 of 33,904 votes (20.4%): wider than in 67% of England’s 543 constituencies.
37,944 votes for candidates · majority 9,551
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024.
turnout in July 2024: 37,944 votes from 74,678 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 9,551 of 37,944 votes (25.2%): wider than in 78% of England’s 543 constituencies.
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
39,132 votes for candidates · majority 2,311
Labour, MP since 4 July 2024.
turnout in July 2024: 39,132 votes from 70,154 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 2,311 of 39,132 votes (5.9%): the 115th-narrowest of 543 in England.
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
33,904 votes for candidates · majority 6,908
Labour, MP since 1 May 1997.
turnout in July 2024: 33,904 votes from 69,133 registered voters. England: 60%.
Majority 6,908 of 33,904 votes (20.4%): wider than in 67% 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.
Doncaster’s Band D council tax is £2,125 a year
Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council keeps £1,749.86 of a Band D bill (82%); the rest goes to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority.
Across the whole town the average Band D is £2,126 (parishes differ; weighted by residents).
Band D since 1993
Doncaster’s Band D bill has risen 51% in ten years, from £1,436.44 in 2016–17, against England’s average (56%). It was £587.25 in 1993–94.
Your bill by band
A Band D home in the unparished part of Doncaster, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.
South Yorkshire’s councils
Average Band D in each council area, 2026–27, parish precepts included. Bars start at £2,000.
Council budgets per resident, 2026–27
Show as a table, with South Yorkshire
| Doncaster | Doncaster’s councils | South Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult social care | £506 | £528 | £487 |
| Children’s social care | £341 | £333 | £290 |
| Roads and transport | £35 | £67 | £41 |
| Housing (not council homes’ rents) | £33 | £45 | £61 |
| Bins, street cleaning, environment | £123 | £120 | £119 |
| Libraries, leisure, culture | £52 | £51 | £44 |
| Planning and development | £31 | £37 | £26 |
| Public health | £120 | £94 | £78 |
| Running the council | £43 | £47 | £59 |
| Other | £8 | £2 | £19 |
| Total, schools apart | £1,293 | £1,323 | £1,234 |
Net budgeted service spending, MHCLG Revenue Account budget 2026–27, per resident (ONS mid-2025 estimates). Schools are left out: academies are paid for directly by government, so council school budgets depend on how many schools have converted. South Yorkshire 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 Doncaster 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.
doncaster.gov.uk ↗Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.
doncaster.gov.uk ↗The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.
Electoral Commission ↗Questions about how Doncaster is run
Does Doncaster have a town council?
No. Doncaster is unparished, so there is no town or parish council and no parish precept.
Who is the MP for Doncaster?
Doncaster is split between 3 constituencies: Doncaster Central (Sally Jameson, Labour), Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme (Lee Pitcher, Labour) and Rawmarsh and Conisbrough (John Healey, Labour). Parliament’s Find your MP service matches a postcode to its MP.
How many councillors does Doncaster have?
18 ward councillors represent Doncaster’s 7 wards.
When are the next elections in Doncaster?
No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Doncaster’s wards. The next UK general election must be held by August 2029.
How much is council tax in Doncaster?
Band D council tax in Doncaster is £2,126 for 2026–27. Your bill depends on your home’s band, from A (6/9 of Band D) to H (18/9).
Who controls Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council?
Reform UK has a majority: 38 of 55 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.
Who won the 2025 council election in Doncaster?
In Doncaster’s wards on 1 May 2025, Reform UK 7 · Labour 6 · Conservative 5 of the 18 seats up. Reform UK had the largest share of votes, 34.7%.
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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