Lewes District Council elections

Lewes District Council in East Sussex, England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2019, 41 councillors are elected from 21 wards.

Following the elections in May 2015, on 2 May 2019 and on 4 May 2023, the Council was composed as follows

Political parties
From its formation, until 2013, the council comprised mainly Conservative and Liberal Democrat or Liberal councillors, with a small number of independents and some Labour councillors at different points. However, in 2013 two Conservative members of the council crossed the floor and joined UKIP, giving the party its first Lewes District councillors. This also meant that the Conservatives lost control of the council, putting it in No overall control. In 2015, neither of the previous UKIP members were re-elected; however, a new UKIP District Councillor was elected to the council, and, for the first time in its history, three Green Party councillors.

2019 saw the Conservative Party return 19 councillors, and the Green Party increase their representation to nine councillors, becoming the second largest party, ahead of the Liberal Democrats, who managed eight. The Labour Party elected three councillors, and they were joined by two Independents.

However in 2021, one Green Party Councillor left the Green Party to join the Liberal Democrats on Lewes Council, making the Liberal Democrats the second largest party. In 2022 the Labour Party gained a seat from the Conservatives in a by-election. Then, in the 2023 local elections for all 41 Council seats, the Conservatives and Independents lost all of their remaining seats of Lewes Council, leaving the Green Party as the largest group, the Liberal Democrats as the second largest group, and the Labour Party as the remaining group.

Council elections

 * 1973 Lewes District Council election
 * 1976 Lewes District Council election
 * 1979 Lewes District Council election
 * 1983 Lewes District Council election (New ward boundaries)
 * 1987 Lewes District Council election
 * 1991 Lewes District Council election
 * 1995 Lewes District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
 * 1999 Lewes District Council election
 * 2003 Lewes District Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 7)
 * 2007 Lewes District Council election
 * 2011 Lewes District Council election
 * 2015 Lewes District Council election
 * 2019 Lewes District Council election (New ward boundaries)
 * 2023 Lewes District Council election