Election Name: | 2024 Rushmoor Borough Council election |
Country: | Hampshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2023 Rushmoor Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2023 |
Next Election: | 2026 Rushmoor Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2026 |
Seats For Election: | 13 of 39 seats to Rushmoor Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Turnout: | 33.71% [1] |
Leader1: | Gareth Lyon |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat1: | West Heath |
Seats Before1: | 23 |
Seats After1: | 15 |
Seat Change1: | 8 |
Leader2: | Gareth Williams |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat2: | Empress |
Seats Before2: | 14 |
Seats After2: | 21 |
Seat Change2: | 7 |
Leader3: | Craig Card |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Leaders Seat3: | St Marks |
Seats Before3: | 2 |
Seats After3: | 3 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Leader | |
Posttitle: | Leader after election |
Before Election: | Gareth Lyon |
Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
After Election: | Gareth Williams |
After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2024 Rushmoor Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect councillors to Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire, England. This was on the same date as other local elections across England. A third of the council was be up for election. This set of seats was last contested in 2021.[2]
The council was under Conservative majority control prior to the election.[3] [4] The election saw Labour win a majority on the council for the first time in its history.[5] The Labour group leader, Gareth Williams, was appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 21 May 2024.[6]
The results for each ward were as follows:[7] [8]
The changes in these results are changes from the 2023 Rushmoor Borough Council election. Sitting councillors standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*)