Election Name: | 2010 Gosport Borough Council Election |
Percentage1: | 47.8 |
Seats For Election: | 17 of 35 seats to Gosport Borough Council |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2008 Gosport Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2008 |
Next Election: | 2012 Gosport Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Before Election: | No Overall Control |
Election Date: | 6 May 2010 |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Seats1: | 12 |
Seats Before1: | 16 |
Country: | England |
Popular Vote1: | 18,213 |
Majority Seats: | 18 |
Seats2: | 3 |
Seats3: | 2 |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Seats Before3: | 4 |
Seats Before2: | 14 |
Popular Vote2: | 9,768 |
Percentage2: | 25.6 |
Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Popular Vote3: | 7,648 |
Percentage3: | 20.1 |
Council control | |
After Election: | Conservative |
Elections to Gosport Council in Hampshire, England were held on 6 May 2010.[1] [2] Half of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. The Conservatives made six gains, including in some wards that they had lost in the previous election, despite having a reduced vote share. The Liberal Democrats and Labour Party lost 5 and 1 seats respectively, with Labour seeing a large increase of the total vote share.
After the election, the composition of the council was