2022 Crawley Borough Council election
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The 2022 Crawley Borough Council took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Crawley Borough Council. This is on the same day as other local elections. 12 of the 36 seats were up for election.[1]
In its first election in 1973, Crawley was won by Labour. Their control of the council continued until 2006, when the Conservatives took control.[2] Labour regained the council in 2014, and this continued until the 2021 election, when the Conservatives became the largest party, although Labour continued to govern in coalition with an independent.[3] In that election, the Conservatives gained 1 seat with 48.6% of the vote, Labour lost one seat with 39.5%, and independents made no gains or losses with 0.9%.
The seats up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2019 due to boundary changes. In that election, Labour won 19 seats with 42.6%, and Conservatives won 17 with 42.6%.[4]
Previous council composition
| After 2021 election | Before 2022 election[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| Conservative | 18 | Conservative | 18 | ||
| Labour | 17 | Labour | 16 | ||
| Independent | 1 | Independent | 1 | ||
Results
| 2022 Crawley Borough Council election | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Labour | 7 |  2 |
53.8 | 11 | 18 | 50.0 | 10,820 | 44.7 | +5.2 | |
| Conservative | 5 |  1 |
38.5 | 12 | 17 | 47.2 | 10,131 | 41.9 | –6.7 | |
| Green | 0 |  |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,913 | 7.9 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,007 | 4.2 | +0.1 | |
| Independent | 0 | 1 |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 150 | 0.5 | –0.4 | |
| Heritage | 0 | |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 112 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Reform UK | 0 | |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 91 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
