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Hounslow

Labour majority after May 7 2026. (Majority held)

What happened on May 7

Seats won and overall control

After May 7

Labour majority

Council size: 62 seats · 62 up on May 7

Reform UK

8 of 62 seats

Won 8 on May 7 · had 0 before

Next election

May 2030

Whole council every 4 years (London cycle).

Post-May 7 composition

Every party's seat count on the new council

Labour
32
Conservative
17
Reform UK
8
Green Party
3
Lib Dem
1
Independent / Other
1

Pre-May-7 composition is the latest OCD snapshot of who held each seat; post is pre minus seats up plus actual winners.

How accurate was the model here?

Our 7 May 2026 forecast for Hounslow

59% 13 / 22 winners called correctly across this council's wards
7.22pp major-party MAE, average gap between predicted and actual share
-0.29pp Reform UK signed bias, positive = predicted hot, negative = predicted cold

Locked, sha256-witnessed forecast scored against the actual count. See the full national accuracy audit →

Our locked May 7 forecast

The pre-election prediction

Labour
22
Reform UK
18
Conservative
10
Green Party
9
Independent
2
Lib Dem
1

This is the seats-on-the-ballot projection we published before polls opened, used here for accuracy comparison only.

All wards

Per-ward forecast vs actual

Ward Our top pick Actual winner Predicted share Confidence
Bedfont Reform UK Reform UK 33.4% medium
Brentford East Labour Labour 30.7% medium
Brentford West Independent Green Party 26.0% medium
Chiswick Gunnersbury Reform UK Conservative 31.9% medium
Chiswick Homefields Reform UK Conservative 35.2% medium
Chiswick Riverside Reform UK Conservative 33.7% medium
Cranford Labour Conservative 26.9% medium
Feltham North Reform UK Labour 32.2% medium
Feltham West Labour Labour 29.9% medium
Hanworth Park Labour Reform UK 30.5% medium
Hanworth Village Labour Reform UK 27.3% medium
Heston Central Labour Conservative 29.6% medium
Heston East Labour Labour 33.7% medium
Heston West Labour Labour 31.5% medium
Hounslow Central Reform UK Labour 33.0% medium
Hounslow East Labour Labour 33.4% medium
Hounslow Heath Labour Labour 28.7% medium
Hounslow South Labour Labour 30.0% medium
Hounslow West Reform UK Conservative 28.7% medium
Isleworth Labour Labour 31.0% medium
Osterley & Spring Grove Labour Labour 31.1% medium
Syon & Brentford Lock Independent Labour 31.8% medium

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