| Election Name: | 2015 North Somerset Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2011 North Somerset Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2011 |
| Next Election: | 2019 North Somerset Council election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Seats For Election: | All 50 seats to North Somerset Council |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Image1: | Con |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 42 seats, 44.4% |
| Seats1: | 36 |
| Seat Change1: | 6 |
| Popular Vote1: | 68,171 |
| Percentage1: | 44.0% |
| Swing1: | 0.4% |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Last Election2: | 7 seats, 13.7% |
| Seats2: | 5 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 13,941 |
| Percentage2: | 9.0% |
| Swing2: | 4.7% |
| Image3: | LD |
| Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election3: | 6 seats, 18.7% |
| Seats3: | 4 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 24,319 |
| Percentage3: | 15.7% |
| Swing3: | 3.1% |
| Image4: | Lab |
| Party4: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 5 seats, 20.3% |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 27,417 |
| Percentage4: | 17.7% |
| Swing4: | 2.6% |
| Image5: | Grn |
| Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Last Election5: | 1 seat, 1.6% |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | - |
| Popular Vote5: | 5,111 |
| Percentage5: | 3.3% |
| Swing5: | 0.6% |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Conservative |
| After Election: | Conservative |
North Somerset unitary council is elected every four years, with fifty councillors to be elected. Since the first election to the unitary authority in 1995, the council has either been under Conservative party control, or no party has held a majority. The Conservatives gained a majority at the 2007 election and have retained control since then. At the 2015 election, the outcome was as follows:[1]
| Party | Councillors | ||
| Conservatives | 36 | ||
| Independents | 6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 4 | ||
| Labour | 3 | ||
| Greens | 1 | ||
An asterisk * indicates an incumbent seeking re-election.
In the 2011 election Karen Barclay won the seat as an Independent but switched to Conservative
At the previous election Arthur Terry won the old single member ward of Portishead East for the Conservatives but stood as an Independent in 2015. David Pashley was the sitting councillor for the old Portishead Coastal ward.
Robert Payne was elected as a councillor for the old Weston-Super-Mare West at the 2011 election.
Annabel Tall had been elected as a Conservative councillor for the Yatton ward in the 2011 election.