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]
Since the current ward boundaries came in for the 2012 election, the composition of Rushmoor Borough Council has been:[2]
Election | Conservative | Labour | Liberal Democrats | UKIP | Independent | Vacant |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | 25 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2019 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Current[3] | 15 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Party | Candidate | 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 | Candidate | 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 |
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 |