| Election Name: | 2022 Hastings Borough Council election |
| Country: | East Sussex |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2021 Hastings Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2021 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Hastings Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Seats For Election: | 16 out of 32 seats to Hastings Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 17 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats1: | 9 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 9,649 |
| Percentage1: | 42.1% |
| Swing1: | 4.5pp |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Popular Vote2: | 6,790 |
| Percentage2: | 29.6% |
| Swing2: | 11.1pp |
| Party3: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 3 |
| Popular Vote3: | 5,377 |
| Percentage3: | 23.5% |
| Swing3: | 7.2pp |
| Map Size: | 450px |
| Council control | |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Posttitle: | Council control after the election |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2022 Hastings Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Hastings Borough Council in the county of East Sussex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. 16 of the 32 seats were up for election.[1]
Since its creation in 1973, Hastings has been under the control of all 3 major parties. The council was under no overall control until 1976, when the Conservatives won the council, before reverting to no overall control in 1980. The Liberal Democrats won the council briefly from 1996 to 1998, a period which also saw the Conservatives lose representation on the council.[2] Labour controlled the council from 1998 to 2004. The Conservatives briefly held the council from 2006 to 2008, before Labour regained it in 2010. In the 2021 election, the Conservatives gained 4 with 40.7% of the vote, Labour lost 5 with 37.6%, and the Green Party gained their first seat on the council with 16.3%.[3]
The seats up for election this year were last elected in 2018. In that election, no net gains or losses were made, and Labour achieved 48.6% of the vote, the Conservatives 31.3%, and the Green Party 10.8%.
| After 2021 election | Before 2022 election[4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| 19 | 18 | ||||
| 12 | 12 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | ||||
Changes:
An asterisk (*) indicates an incumbent councillor.
In May 2023 Lucian Fernando joined Reform UK, having been elected as a Conservative in 2021.[6]