Winchester City Council is responsible for the local government of the City of Winchester in Hampshire, England. Despite its name, the City of Winchester is a local government district that stretches far beyond the urban area of Winchester, covering urban, suburban and rural areas.
One third of Winchester City Council is elected each year in a sequence of three years, followed by one year without election, thus giving a tenure for individual councillors of four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2016, 45 councillors have been elected from 16 wards, there having previously been 57 councillors have been elected from 26 wards from 2002. [1]
Year | Conservative | Liberal Democrats [a] | Labour | Green | Independents & Others | Council control after election | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Local government reorganisation; council established (51 seats) | ||||||||
1973 | 14 | 5 | 5 | – | 27 | Independent | ||
New ward boundaries (54 seats) | ||||||||
1976 | 24 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 23 | No overall control | ||
1979 | 36 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 | Conservative | ||
1980 | 35 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 12 | Conservative | ||
1982 | 35 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | Conservative | ||
1983 | 36 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | Conservative | ||
1984 | 37 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | Conservative | ||
1986 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | Conservative | ||
1987 | 25 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 2 | No overall control | ||
1988 | 26 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 2 | No overall control | ||
1990 | 27 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | No overall control | ||
1991 | 26 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | No overall control | ||
1992 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 4 | No overall control | ||
1994 | 16 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 4 | Liberal Democrats | ||
1995 | 12 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 4 | Liberal Democrats | ||
1996 | 9 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 4 | Liberal Democrats | ||
1998 | 10 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Liberal Democrats | ||
1973 | 12 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 5 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2000 | 10 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 5 | Liberal Democrats | ||
New ward boundaries (57 seats) | ||||||||
2002 | 14 | 35 | 3 | 0 | 5 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2003 | 19 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 4 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2004 | 22 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 5 | No overall control | ||
2006 | 29 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 4 | Conservative | ||
2007 | 29 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Conservative | ||
2008 | 29 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Conservative | ||
2010 | 26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2011 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 2 | No overall control | ||
2012 | 29 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Conservative | ||
2014 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 1 | No overall control | ||
2015 | 33 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Conservative | ||
New ward boundaries (45 seats) | ||||||||
2016 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Conservative | ||
2018 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Conservative | ||
2019 | 18 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2021 | 16 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2022 | 15 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2023 | 12 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Liberal Democrats | ||
2024 | 8 | 33 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Liberal Democrats | ||
N.b. White denotes no election held in ward that year
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Paul Hoare | 314 | 51.3 | −20.3 | |
Conservative | Roger Huxstep | 145 | 23.7 | +23.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Margaret Scriven | 140 | 22.9 | +22.9 | |
Labour | 13 | 2.1 | −13.5 | ||
Majority | 169 | 27.6 | |||
Turnout | 612 | 50.0 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Malcolm Le May | 438 | 49.0 | +13.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Safia Boot | 404 | 45.2 | −13.4 | |
Labour | Timothy Curran | 52 | 5.8 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 34 | 3.8 | |||
Turnout | 894 | 77 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | David Spender | 853 | 57.1 | −0.8 | |
Conservative | Susan Evershed | 584 | 39.1 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Clare McKenna | 56 | 3.7 | −1.3 | |
Majority | 269 | 18.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,493 | 46.3 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Angela Clear | 630 | 60.9 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | Karen Jeffreys | 349 | 33.8 | −2.8 | |
UKIP | Douglas Reed | 40 | 3.9 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Robert Rudge | 15 | 1.5 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 281 | 27.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,034 | 33.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Daryl Henry | 1,180 | 54.1 | +1.1 | |
Conservative | Sue Evershed | 938 | 43.0 | −1.6 | |
Labour | Nicholas Carr | 64 | 2.9 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 242 | 11.1 | |||
Turnout | 2,182 | 51.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Robert Hutchison | 968 | 53.2 | −4.7 | |
Conservative | Helen Osborne | 606 | 33.3 | −2.2 | |
Labour | Nigel Fox | 247 | 13.6 | +7.0 | |
Majority | 362 | 19.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,821 | 32.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Brian Laming | 894 | 53.9 | −6.3 | |
Conservative | Leanne Wheeler | 604 | 36.4 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Hum Qureshi | 162 | 9.8 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 290 | 17.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,660 | 51.1 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Michael Rawson Lumby | 1039 | 51.6 | −18.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lewis John North | 905 | 44.9 | +24.0 | |
Labour | June Elizabeth Kershaw | 39 | 1.9 | −7.6 | |
Green | Andrew Karl Wainwright | 31 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 134 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Richard Murphy | 2217 | 48.3 | −5.4 | |
Conservative | Leo Keay | 1193 | 26.0 | −0.4 | |
Green | Richard Needham | 795 | 17.3 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Peter Marsh | 385 | 8.4 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 1,024 | 22.3 | −4.9 | ||
Turnout | 4,622 | 70.1 | +29.2 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -2.9 |