| Type: | legislative |
| Country: | Hampshire |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Previous Election: | 2022 Fareham Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Fareham Borough Council election |
| Seats For Election: | All 32 seats to Fareham Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 17 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader1: | Seán Woodward |
| Last Election1: | 25 |
| Seats Before1: | 24 |
| Seats After1: | 22 |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leader2: | Chrissie Bainbridge |
| Last Election2: | 5 |
| Seats Before2: | 4 |
| Seats After2: | 8 |
| Party4: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 0 |
| Seats Before4: | 0 |
| Seats After4: | 1 |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Last Election5: | 1 |
| Seats Before5: | 3 |
| Seats After5: | 1 |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Seán Woodward |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| After Election: | Simon Martin |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
The 2024 Fareham Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom. All 32 members of Fareham Borough Council in Hampshire were elected following boundary changes.
The council remained under Conservative majority control.
Since its creation in 1974, only the Conservatives have ever formed majorities on the council. The party has held majorities on the council for its entire history, except between 1986 and 1987, and between 1994 and 1999.[1] The Liberal Democrats briefly overtook the Conservatives as the largest party in this second period of no overall control, but never formed a majority.
In the previous election in 2022, the Conservatives gained 2 seats with 45.7% of the vote, the Liberal Democrats maintained their 5 seats with 25.7%, and independents won 1 with 3.9%. The leader of the council prior to the election was Conservative councillor Seán Woodward, who had held the post since 1999. He did not stand for re-election in 2024. After the election, the Conservatives chose Simon Martin to be their new group leader; he was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 16 May 2024.[2]
Fareham usually elects its councillors in halves, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards.[3] The change increases the number of councillors by 1.
| Old wards[4] | No. of seats | New wards | No. of seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fareham East | 2 | Avenue | 2 |
| Fareham North | 2 | Fareham Park | 2 |
| Fareham North-West | 2 | Fareham Town | 2 |
| Fareham South | 2 | Fort Fareham | 2 |
| Fareham West | 2 | Hill Head | 2 |
| Hill Head | 2 | Hook-with-Warsash | 2 |
| Locks Heath | 2 | Locks Heath | 2 |
| Park Gate | 3 | Park Gate | 2 |
| Portchester East | 3 | Portchester Castle | 2 |
| Portchester West | 2 | Portchester Wicor | 2 |
| Sarisbury | 2 | Sarisbury and Whiteley | 2 |
| Stubbington | 2 | Stubbington | 2 |
| Titchfield | 2 | Titchfield | 2 |
| Titchfield Common | 2 | Titchfield Common | 2 |
| Warsash | 2 | Uplands and Funtley | 2 |
| Wallington and Downend | 2 | ||
| After 2022 election | Before 2024 election[5] | After 2024 election[6] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 25 | 24 | 22 | ||||||
| 5 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| 1 | ||||||||
An asterisk indicates an incumbent councillor.