Boston Borough Council May 2023 election results: Conservatives lose majority as new political group triumphs

The Tories shed nine seats in yesterday’s poll.

Prior to the election, the party accounted for almost half of the total number of councillors on the authority, with a tally of 14; now, it has just five and is a distant second to the new Boston Independent group, which saw 18 of its 24 candidates elected.

Elsewhere, five seats went to independent candidates, one to a Blue Revolution candidate, and one to the Liberal Democrats.

Labour now has no representation on the council. Prior to the election, it held two seats on the council – Fenside, where it finished third, 13 votes behind the Tories; and Station, where it did not field a candidate. It only fielded three candidates in total.