Council by-election · Wiltshire: Salisbury Milford ward · Thursday, 15 October 2026
This is where politics meets your life.
Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the area around this area, from planning to local statistics, and who represents you now.
Life in Wiltshire: Salisbury Milford ward: the official facts
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
90 people in Salisbury Milford ward, 2.5% of residents aged 16–64, against 4.1% across England (September 2026).
Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.
House prices in Wiltshire
Average price £328,102, up 1.5% on a year earlier (August 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £158,339
Detached houses: £517,138
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.
Your area · Wiltshire: Salisbury Milford ward, 15 October 2026 · What’s It To Me?
Past elections in this ward
Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.
2021— Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 40%
Charles Samuel McGrath
Conservative and Unionist Party
718
Alan Halliday Bayliss
Liberal Democrats
492
Frances West
Labour Party
305
Sara Jayne Taylor
Green Party
237
Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.
Who represents you now
Councillors for Salisbury Milford, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Alan Bayliss, Liberal Democrats
This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.
Across the whole of Wiltshire council (98 seats in 2026): Conservative 38, Labour 1, Liberal Democrat 43, Reform UK 10, Other 6. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of Liberal Democrats and independents.
Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.
