Rushmoor Borough Council elections

One-third of Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire, England, is elected each year, followed by one year without election. From 1979, the council had 15 three-member wards, reduced to 14 wards in 2002 and 13 in 2012. Each ward elects 3 of the 39 councillors, one in each election year, for a term of four years, except in years when ward boundaries are changed when all councillors are elected for terms depending on their position in the poll.^[1]

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Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Reform	UKIP	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year							Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (43 seats)
1973	20	9	7	–	–	7		No overall control
1976	30	5	4	–	–	4		Conservative
New ward boundaries (45 seats)
1979	29	6	4	–	–	6		Conservative
1980	22	11	6	–	–	6		No overall control
1982	23	12	7	–	–	3		Conservative
1983	29	10	5	–	–	1		Conservative
1984	31	9	5	–	–	0		Conservative
1986	30	6	0	–	–	0		Conservative
1987	31	6	8	–	–	0		Conservative
1988	32	5	8	–	–	0		Conservative
1990	32	5	8	–	–	0		Conservative
1991	30	7	8	–	–	0		Conservative
1992	30	6	9	–	–	0		Conservative
1994	18	11	15	–	0	0		No overall control
1995	18	11	15	–	0	1		No overall control
1996	13	14	18	–	0	1		No overall control
1998	17	14	14	–	0	0		No overall control
1999	18	13	14	–	0	0		No overall control
2000	24	10	10	–	0	1		Conservative
New ward boundaries (42 seats)
2002	25	6	10	–	0	1		Conservative
2003	25	6	10	–	0	1		Conservative
2004	24	5	12	–	0	1		Conservative
2006	24	5	11	–	0	2		Conservative
2007	28	5	8	–	0	1		Conservative
2008	29	5	8	–	0	0		Conservative
2010	30	6	6	–	0	0		Conservative
2011	32	6	4	–	0	0		Conservative
New ward boundaries (39 seats)
2012	25	11	0	–	3	0		Conservative
2014	24	12	0	–	3	0		Conservative
2015	26	11	0	–	2	0		Conservative
2016	27	10	0	–	2	0		Conservative
2018	25	11	1	–	0	0		Conservative
2019	26	11	2	–	0	0		Conservative
2021	29	9	1	0	0	0		Conservative
2022	28	9	2	0	0	0		Conservative
2023	23	14	2	0	0	0		Conservative
2024	15	21	3	0	0	0		Labour
2026	10	17	3	6	0	3		No overall control

Party		Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	466	37.4
	Conservative	373	29.9
	Labour	224	18.0
	Independent	112	9.0
	Independent	72	5.8
Majority		93	7.5
Turnout		1,247	33.1
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	467	49.0	+0.9
	Conservative	429	45.0	+5.3
	Labour	58	6.1	−6.0
Majority		38	4.0
Turnout		954	24.7
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Suzan Gadsby	573	49.1	+25.0
	Conservative	David Thomas	496	42.5	−19.2
	Labour	June Smith	99	8.5	−5.7
Majority			77	6.6
Turnout			1,168	26.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Rust	649	57.7	+4.1
	Conservative	Eric Neal	286	25.4	−3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Thompson	189	16.8	+5.7
Majority			363	32.3
Turnout			1,124	25.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Rushmoor Borough Council elections

Council composition

Borough result maps

By-election results

1994–1998

1998–2002

2002–2006

2006–2010

2010–2014

2014–2018

2018–2022

2026–2030

Notes

References

External links

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Hazel Manning	515	43.2	+18.7
	Conservative	Rosemary Possee	445	37.4	−7.5
	BNP	Janette Pedrick	137	11.5	−5.4
	Labour	Clive Grattan	94	7.9	−5.9
Majority			70	5.8
Turnout			1,191	30.7
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Bridgeman	423	37.3	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Lynch-Bowers	382	33.6	+7.7
	Conservative	Simon Poole	330	29.1	−6.0
Majority			41	3.7
Turnout			1,135	24.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alex Crawford	437	41.6	+11.6
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Thompson	354	33.7	−8.1
	Conservative	Andrew Duncan	259	24.7	−3.5
Majority			83	7.9
Turnout			1,050	22.0
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Attika Choudhary	270	35.8	−6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Mitch Manning	238	31.6	−3.7
	Labour	Sam Wines	184	24.4	+2.3
	UKIP	Eddie Poole	50	6.6	+6.6
	Independent	Roger Watkins	12	1.6	+1.6
Majority			32	4.2
Turnout			754	13.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Dave Bell	662	50.8	+4.2
	Conservative	Brian Parker	312	24.0	−5.4
	Labour	Sue Gadsby	196	15.1	−0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Charlie Fraser-Fleming	132	10.1	+1.5
Majority			350	26.9
Turnout			1,302
	UKIP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Canty	870	53.5	+8.9
	UKIP	Chris Harding	305	18.7	−10.6
	Labour	Sue Gadsby	262	16.1	−2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Charlie Fraser-Fleming	190	11.7	+3.9
Majority			565	34.7
Turnout			1,627
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Mitchell	687	54.7	+16.5
	Conservative	Leon Hargreaves	450	35.9	+2.2
	Labour	Carl Hewitt	118	9.4	−6.1
Majority			237	18.9
Turnout			1255	25%
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fouzia Khan	408	42.1	+8.8
	Conservative	Prabesh KC	199	20.5	−3.0
	Reform	Rohin Shingadia	196	20.2	−7.5
	Green	Andy Wilson	118	12.2	+12.2
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Peart	49	5.1	+5.1
Majority			209	21.5
Turnout			970
	Labour hold		Swing