There were 64 by-elections during the 4 months June to September 2014 with 25 (39%) changing hand or 23 (36%) excluding 2 Lincolnshire Independent (classed as a Resident Group) gains from Independent. The results can be summarised by:
| Party | Candidates | Defended | Retained | Gained | Lost | Won | retention rate |
| Conservatives | 64 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 56% |
| Labour | 58 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 26 | 95% |
| Liberal Democrats | 40 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 50% |
| SNP | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 1 | ||||||
| UKIP | 54 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0% | |
| Green | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% |
| Resident Groups * | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Independents ** | 27 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 38% |
| No Description | 3 | ||||||
| Blue | 1 | ||||||
| BNP | 1 | ||||||
| Christian People's Alliance | 1 | ||||||
| English Democrats | 2 | ||||||
| Liberal | 1 | ||||||
| Mebyon Kernow | 2 | ||||||
| TUSAC | 5 | ||||||
| Others *** | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 297 | 64 | 39 | 25 | 25 | 64 | 61% |
* Lincolnshire Independents and Its Our County in Herefordshire
** 27 Independents contested 20 seats
*** 1 each for British Democrats and Patriotic Socialist
The Conservatives contested all the by-elections, Labour 91% and the Liberal Democrats 63% with UKIP contesting 84% and Greens 47%.
Although 25 seats changed hands during the four months, just 8 were between Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats
- Conservatives gain Broadland: Wroxham and Somerset: North Frome from Liberal Democrats
- Labour gain Charnwood: Thurmaston from the Conservatives and Craven: Skipton West from the Liberal Democrats
- Liberal Democrats gain Cornwall: Illogan, Epping Forest: Hemnall, GuildforD: Lovelace and Maidstone: Staplehurst from the Conservatives
Conservatives gain seats from Liberal Democrats in Broadland and Somerset, an Independent in East Cambridgeshire, Green in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk and UKIP in Cornwall
- whilst losing 4 seats to the Liberal Democrats in Cornwall, Epping Forest, Guildford & Maidstone and 1 to Labour in Charnwood and 1 each to Green & Its Our County in Herefordshire together with 1 to UKIP in Shepway
Labour gain seats from Conservatives in Charnwood, Liberal Democrats in Craven, SNP in South Lanarkshire, 2 from UKIP in Merthyr Tydfil & Redditch and 1 from an Independent in Durham
- whilst losing a seat to UKIP in Doncaster
Liberal Democrats gain 4 seats from Conservatives in Cornwall, Epping Forest, Guildford and Maidstone and 1 from Independent in Northumberland
- whilst losing a seat to Conservative in Broadland and Somerset, Labour in Craven, UKIP in Worthing and another to Independent in North Yorkshire
Independents gain a seat from the Liberal Democrats in North Yorkshire and one from SNP in Argyll & Bute
- whilst losing 2 seats to Lincolnshire Independents in North Kesteven, 1 to Conservatives in East Cambridgeshire, 1 to Labour in Durham and 1 to Liberal Democrats in Northumberland
UKIP lose 2 seats to Labour in Merthyr Tydfil and Redditich and 1 to the Conservatives in Cornwall
- whilst gaining a seat from Labour in Doncaster, one in Shepway from Conservative and another from Liberal Democrats in Worthing
Greens gain a seat from the Conservatives in Herefordshire but lost another to the Conservatives in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk
SNP lose a seat to Labour in South Lanarkshire and another to Independent in Argyll & Bute
Its Our County gain a seat in Herefordshire from Conservatives along with Lincolnshire Independents 2 seat gain from Independents in North Kesteven
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