Election Name: | 2022 Gosport Borough Council election |
Country: | Hampshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2021 Gosport Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2021 |
Next Election: | 2024 Gosport Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Seats For Election: | All 28 seats to Gosport Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 15 |
Party1: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election1: | 14 seats, 23.8% |
Seats1: | 16 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 15,993 |
Percentage1: | 40.9% |
Swing1: | 17.1% |
Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election2: | 19 seats, 50.6% |
Seats2: | 10 |
Seat Change2: | 9 |
Popular Vote2: | 16,716 |
Percentage2: | 42.8% |
Swing2: | 8.1% |
Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election3: | 1 seat, 21.9% |
Seats3: | 2 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 4,586 |
Percentage3: | 11.7% |
Swing3: | 10.2% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
After Party: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Elections to Gosport Borough Council took place on the 5th May 2022 as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections.[1]
The Liberal Democrats gained control of the council from the Conservative Party.[2]
The whole council was up for election following a boundary review.[3] This reduced the size the council from 34 to 28.
The seats up had previously been elected in 2018 and 2021. The elections in 2018, saw the Liberal Democrats gain four seats: two from Conservatives, and one each from the Labour and UKIP. The Conservatives however gained the sole UKIP seat, retaining their majority on the council. The other half of seats were elected in 2021, when the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour. This left the council with a Conservative majority of four.
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