2015 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election

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2015 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election
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  2014 7 May 2015 2016  

21 seats of 60 to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
31 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
Party Conservative Labour
Seats won3217
Seat changeIncrease2.svg3Steady2.svg

 Third partyFourth party
 
Party Liberal Democrats Independent
Seats won74
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1Decrease2.svg2

Basingstoke and Deane UK local election 2015 map.svg

Council control before election

Conservative Party (UK)

Council control after election

Conservative Party (UK)

The 2015 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in England. [1] It was held on the same day as the 2015 general election as well as other local elections.

Contents

21 seats were up for election. The seat in Rooksdown was up for election due to a casual vacancy, and its winner would serve a term lasting until 2016.

The Conservatives gained four seats and gained a four-seat majority on the council. They gained one seat from Labour in Brighton Hill North and two from independents in Chineham and Tadley Central. Both the defeated independent candidates were seeking re-election; the former was a long-serving independent, while the latter had been elected as a Conservative in 2011 before defecting to UKIP, then becoming independent. Labour gained the rural ward of Overton, Laverstoke and Steventon from the Liberal Democrats.

Results summary

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election 2015
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Conservative 16Increase2.svg376.19163253.3336,14352.3
  Labour 3Steady2.svg14.28141728.3312,72518.4
  Liberal Democrats 2Decrease2.svg19.525711.668,60812.5
  Independent 0Decrease2.svg20046.663,6355.3
  Green 0Steady2.svg00001,0901.6
  TUSC 0Steady2.svg0000410.1

Results by ward

Basing

Basing
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Clive Pinder 2,921 57.8
UKIP Hazel Vanbergen75414.9
Labour Andrew Mountford69713.8
Liberal Democrats Alan Read68413.5
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Baughurst and Tadley North

Baughurst and Tadley North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Tate 1,671 54.6
Liberal Democrats Chris Curtis1,11236.3
Labour George Porter2789.1
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Bramley and Sherfield

Bramley and Sherfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nick Robinson 1,889 60.3
Independent Bruce Ansell94330.1
UKIP Alan Simpson3029.6
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Brighton Hill North

Brighton Hill North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hannah Golding 974 36.7
Labour Janet Westbrook78229.9
UKIP Steve James-Bailey49118.5
Liberal Democrats Ted Blackmore-Squires1415.3
Green Richard Winter1415.3
Turnout
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne

Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Izett 2,665 77.3
Liberal Democrats Pauleen Malone43212.5
Labour Romilla Wickremeratne35110.2
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Chineham

Chineham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joyce Bowyer 2,409 45.3
Independent Martin Biermann2,33143.8
UKIP Steve Poulter58110.9
Turnout
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Eastrop

Eastrop
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Graham Parker 911 34.3
Conservative Ian Smith78029.4
Labour Jonathan Stokes50218.9
UKIP Alan Stone28210.6
Green Richard Matthewson1786.7
Turnout
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Grove

Grove
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ronald Hussey 1,402 41.9
Conservative Penny Bates90026.9
Labour Michael Stockwell57917.3
UKIP Mark Hygate46814.0
Turnout
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Hatch Warren and Beggarwood

Hatch Warren and Beggarwood
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rebecca Bean 2,971 64.4
Labour Zoe-Marie Rogers74916.2
UKIP Stan Tennison49310.7
Liberal Democrats Richard Whitechurch4028.7
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Kempshott

Kempshott
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rita Burgess 2,669 60.9
Labour Walter McCormick67215.3
UKIP David White51711.8
Liberal Democrats Madeline Hussey3197.3
Green Eric Rivron2044.7
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Kingsclere

Kingsclere
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Donald Sherlock 2,000 69.4
Labour John Rodway52418.2
Liberal Democrats Roger Ward35912.5
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Norden

Norden
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Hood 1,797 49.0
Conservative Jim Holder94025.6
UKIP Duncan Stone51414.0
Green Lynsey Moore1945.3
Liberal Democrats Doris Jones1835.0
TUSC Mayola Blagdon411.1
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Oakley and North Waltham

Oakley and North Waltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rob Golding 2,595 62.3
Labour Julie Pierce55213.3
UKIP Peter Johnson47211.3
Liberal Democrats Robert Cooper3789.1
Green Paul Crawte1694.1
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Overton, Laverstoke and Steventon

Overton, Laverstoke and Steventon
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Colin Phillimore 1,042 36.0
Conservative Marion Jones1,01335.0
Liberal Democrats Lucy Sloane Williams63622.0
Green Kirsten Robinson2047.0
Turnout
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

Pamber and Silchester

Pamber and Silchester
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Marilyn Tucker 1,910 69.7
Labour Lydia Massey43015.7
UKIP Janice Simpson40214.7
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Rooksdown

Rooksdown By-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Simon Bound 1,130 62.3
Labour Daniel O'Loughlin41923.1
UKIP Lucy Hamilton18810.4
Liberal Democrats Obi Nwasike784.3
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

South Ham

South Ham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gary Watts 1,654 41.2
Conservative Rebecca Sanders1,32232.9
UKIP Malik Azam81820.4
Liberal Democrats Stephen Whitechurch2195.5
Turnout
Labour hold Swing

Tadley Central

Tadley Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jonathan Richards 628 24.8
Liberal Democrats Jo Slimin38626.3
Independent Stephen West36124.6
Labour Peter McCann936.3
Turnout
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Tadley South

Tadley South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rob Musson 1,787 61.3
Liberal Democrats Warwick Lovegrove67423.1
Labour Scarlett Russell45415.6
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Upton Grey and The Candovers

Upton Grey and The Candovers
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mark Ruffell 1,565 87.8
Labour Alice James21712.2
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Winklebury

Winklebury
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joe Smith 1,404 45.8
Labour Barnaby Wheller93330.4
UKIP Phil Heath54917.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Berwick-Gooding1795.8
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

References

  1. "Upcoming elections & referendums". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.