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Lib Dems Hold St. John's

Friday, 31 October 2025 08:06

By Martin Webber

The Liberal Democrats comfortably held onto the ward of St. John's in a Borough Council by-election on Thursday.

The by-election followed the resignation of the the Liberal Democrat councillor Matthew Fox, who was elected last year.  

Ukonu Obasi was elected with 53% of the vote. The turnout was 28.4%.

Afterwards Ukonu Obasi spoke to the Kent Current newsletter. He said “I love this community. It’s a very diverse, welcoming community, and it’s my honour and pleasure to be elected to serve them.”

You can read more on the free newsletter: https://www.kentcurrent.news/subscribe?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=email-subscribe&r=5hhtuj&next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentcurrent.news%2Fp%2Fa-win-for-virgin-but-not-for-kent&utm_medium=email

The Lib Dems have an overall majority on the Borough Council and their control is unaffected by Thursday's vote.

Labour weren't standing in the by- election.

The full result in St John's in the vote on 30th October 2025 was:

 

 

Votes

%

OBASI, Ukonu Elisha

Lib Dems

629

53.3

HOARE, Chris

Reform UK

177

15.0

SERGEANT, Kate

Green

160

13.5

HAWES-WEBB, Kit

TW Alliance

105

8.9

SUMNER, David

Conservative

90

7.6

DORE, Joe

Independents for TW

20

1.7

Electorate = 4,159

Total votes cast=

1,181

 

 

The result from last year's May 2024 election would be useful for a comparison but do not appear to be available on the TWBC website on Friday morning.

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