Election Name: | 2017 Surrey County Council election |
Country: | Surrey |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2013 Surrey County Council election |
Previous Year: | 2013 |
Next Election: | 2021 United Kingdom local elections |
Next Year: | 2021 |
Seats For Election: | All 81 seats to Surrey County Council |
Majority Seats: | 41 |
Election Date: | 4 May 2017 |
Turnout: | 36% |
Leader1: | David Hodge |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat1: | Warlingham |
Last Election1: | 58 |
Seats1: | 61 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election2: | 9 |
Seats2: | 9 |
Seat Change2: | - |
Party3: | Residents' association |
Last Election3: | 8 |
Seats3: | 8 |
Seat Change3: | - |
Party4: | Independents |
Last Election4: | 1 |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seat Change4: | - |
Party6: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election6: | 1 |
Seats6: | 1 |
Seat Change6: | - |
Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Last Election5: | 1 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | - |
Map Size: | 350px |
The 2017 Surrey County Council election took place as part of the 2017 local elections in the UK.[1] All 81 councillors were elected for single-member electoral divisions for a four-year term. The electoral system used was first-past-the-post voting.
The result was that Conservative councillors formed an increased majority on the council, having won back all three of the divisions gained from them by UKIP at the previous election in 2013.
Two second-largest party groupings of councillors remained tied on nine seats each, as in the results of the previous election. These were the Liberal Democrats and an informal alliance of Independent and Residents Association councillors, with both groups securing nine councillors each.
The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats both won two seats off each other.
The Conservatives won two further seats - one from an Independent in Haslemere (who didn’t re-stand) and one from the Esher and Molesey Residents’ Associations in the East Molesey and Esher division. However, the Conservatives also lost two out of the three divisions that they were defending in Farnham to the Independent Farnham Residents group.
The balance of two councillors on the Council continued to be the same as before: one Labour Party member and one Green Party of England and Wales member each secured re-election in their divisions.
|-|| Independents and Residents' Associations| align="right" | 9||| align="right" | 0|| align="right" | 9.7| align="right" | 29,446||-|}The informal alliance of Independents and Residents’ Associations gained two divisions but also lost two divisions; all four in contests with the Conservatives.
An asterisk * indicates an incumbent seeking re-election.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 11%
In the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 22%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 30%.
In the previous election a Green Party candidate polled 5%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 13%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 16%
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 16%
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 18%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 22%, the Independent candidate polled 19% and the Labour candidate polled 8%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 31%, an Independent candidate polled 18% and Labour polled 7%.
At the previous election the Labour candidate polled 16%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 22%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 15%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 21%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 12%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 13%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 21%.
At the previous election the Independent candidate polled 35%.
At the previous election David Ivison won the seat for the Conservatives, so this division is a HOLD in relation to the previous election in 2013.
At the previous election a UKIP candidate polled 14%
At the preceding election, an Independent candidate polled 10%.
At the previous election the Independent candidate polled 30%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 18%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 23%.
At the preceding election an Independent candidate polled 11%.
At the previous election a UKIP candidate polled 14%
At the previous election a Walton Society candidate polled 32%
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 22% and the Labour candidate polled 7%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 18%.
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 13%
At the previous election the UKIP candidate polled 22%.