Election Name: | 2007 Havant Borough Council election |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Seats Before1: | 30 |
After Election: | Conservative |
Previous Election: | 2006 Havant Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2006 |
Seats After1: | 31 |
Party Colour: | yes |
Ongoing: | no |
Country: | England |
Before Election: | Conservative |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Election Date: | 3 May 2007 |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seats Before3: | 4 |
Popular Vote3: | 1,621 |
Popular Vote1: | 14,660 |
Popular Vote2: | 5,949 |
Seats Before2: | 4 |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Next Year: | 2008 |
Next Election: | 2008 Havant Borough Council election |
Seats For Election: | 10 of 38 seats to Havant Borough Council |
Seats After3: | 4 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
Council control | |
Seats2: | 1 |
Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Seats After2: | 3 |
The 2007 Havant Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Before the election the Conservatives had 30 councillors, while both the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats had 4 seats.[3] There was no election in the 4 Leigh Park wards in 2007 and as a result Labour was not defending any of their 4 seats on the council,[3] while the Conservatives were defending 8 of the 10 seats that were contested.[4]
The Conservatives won 9 of the 10 seats contested, taking 1 seat from the Liberal Democrats.[5] This took the Conservatives to 31 seats on the council, which the Conservative council leader David Gillett said he believed was "the largest Conservative majority on the south coast".[5] The only seat not won by the Conservatives was in Bedhampton where the Liberal Democrats held on by a majority of 319 votes.[5] Overall turnout at the elections was 35.2%.[6]