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The 2024 Winchester City Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Winchester City Council in Hampshire, England. [2] This was on the same day as other local elections across England, and Hampshire's and the Isle of Wight's Constabulary Police and Crime Commissioner election.
As is typical for Winchester's local elections, fourteen seats of the forty-five total were contested. Not all wards had a seat open for election: the two wards Upper Meon Valley and Colden Common & Twyford will next be contested in 2026. The council was already under Liberal Democrat majority control; their majority increased at this election.
2024 Winchester City Council election [3] | ||||||||||
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Liberal Democrats | 11 | 4 | 78.6% | 22 | 33 | 73.3% | 17,258 | 47.7% | -2.3% | |
Conservative | 2 | 5 | 14.3% | 6 | 8 | 17.8% | 11,301 | 31.3% | -0.9% | |
Green | 1 | 1 | 7.1% | 2 | 3 | 6.7% | 5,198 | 14.4% | +1.7% | |
Independent | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 2.2% | 552 | 1.5% | +1.5% | ||
Labour | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 1,853 | 5.1% | +0.2% | ||
The Statements of Persons Nominated was released by Winchester City Council on 8 April 2024 following the close of nominations. [4] Sitting councillors standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Clare Pinniger | 1,768 | 53.9 | -4.9 | |
Conservative | Fiona Isaacs* | 1283 | 39.1 | +4.8 | |
Green | Dane Westley | 148 | 4.5 | -0.2 | |
Labour | Tessa Valentine | 79 | 2.4 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 485 | 14.7 | |||
Turnout | 3297 | 47.5 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jan Warwick* | 1,618 | 47.5 | +8.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anne Forder | 1408 | 41.4 | -9.3 | |
Green | Max Priesemann | 250 | 7.4 | +1.9 | |
Labour | Adrian Field | 125 | 3.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 210 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 3413 | 54.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Ritchie Latham | 1,617 | 57.4 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | Henry Laferla | 700 | 24.9 | -9.3 | |
Independent | Alex Coles | 202 | 7.2 | N/A | |
Green | Richard Cannon | 172 | 6.1 | -1.7 | |
Labour | Steve Haines | 125 | 4.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 917 | 32.5 | |||
Turnout | 2816 | 41.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Suzanne White | 1,717 | 51.5 | -11.6 | |
Conservative | Linda Gemmell | 960 | 28.8 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eric Bodger | 579 | 17.4 | +8.3 | |
Labour | Oliver Hirsch | 80 | 2.4 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 757 | 22.7 | |||
Turnout | 3336 | 44.4 | |||
Green gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Michael Bennett | 1,006 | 44.2 | +2.8 | |
Conservative | Mike Read* | 986 | 43.3 | -1.6 | |
Labour | Andrew Kirby | 147 | 6.5 | ±0.0 | |
Green | Elizabeth Riley | 136 | 6.0 | -1.3 | |
Majority | 20 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 2275 | 33.2 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | 25.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Angela Clear* | 1,053 | 61.9 | +6.5 | |
Conservative | Denise Searle | 387 | 22.7 | -8.4 | |
Labour | Paul Sony | 137 | 8.0 | +3.8 | |
Green | Beata Parry | 125 | 7.3 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 666 | 39.2 | |||
Turnout | 1702 | 30.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Kelsie Learney* | 1,632 | 53.5 | -5.2 | |
Conservative | Antonia Cox | 891 | 29.2 | +2.3 | |
Green | Charlotte Harley | 365 | 12.0 | +3.4 | |
Labour | Lucy Sims | 164 | 5.4 | -0.4 | |
Majority | 741 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 3052 | 45.6 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | John Tippett-Cooper* | 1,237 | 50.4 | -6.2 | |
Green | Lorraine Estelle | 589 | 24.0 | +12.1 | |
Conservative | Philip Hutchinson | 426 | 17.3 | -4.0 | |
Labour | Patrick Davies | 204 | 8.3 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 648 | 26.4 | |||
Turnout | 2456 | 38.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Jamie Scott* | 618 | 57.8 | +2.5 | |
Conservative | Ian Tait | 212 | 19.8 | -6.3 | |
Labour | Alison Cochrane | 142 | 13.3 | -0.2 | |
Green | Michael Perrott | 97 | 9.1 | +4.0 | |
Majority | 406 | 38.0 | |||
Turnout | 1069 | 28.5 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Rachel Aron | 1,416 | 53.7 | -1.8 | |
Conservative | Leo Keay | 697 | 22.6 | -6.2 | |
Green | Richard Needham | 347 | 13.1 | +3.7 | |
Labour | Peter Marsh | 179 | 6.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 719 | 31.1 | |||
Turnout | 2639 | 41.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Chris Westwood* | 1,315 | 49.5 | -9.0 | |
Green | Giles Gooding | 699 | 26.3 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | Steve Russell | 453 | 17.0 | -2.4 | |
Labour | Stephen Turner | 191 | 7.2 | -1.2 | |
Majority | 616 | 23.2 | |||
Turnout | 2658 | 40.3 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Steve Cramoysan* | 1,275 | 55.3 | -3.3 | |
Conservative | Signe Biddle | 785 | 34.0 | +3.1 | |
Green | Andrew Pogson | 127 | 5.5 | +1.1 | |
Labour | Cameron Hodgkinson | 120 | 5.2 | -0.9 | |
Majority | 490 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 2307 | 43.2 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Vivian Achwal* | 1,112 | 48.2 | -15.9 | |
Conservative | Marcus Garth | 480 | 20.8 | -5.9 | |
Independent | Sean Whelan | 350 | 15.2 | N/A | |
Green | Kate Needham | 269 | 11.7 | +6.9 | |
Labour | Rosalind O`Shaughnessy | 94 | 4.1 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 632 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 2305 | 34.1 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Stephen Godfrey* | 1,423 | 49.6 | -2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Murphy | 1222 | 42.6 | +4.3 | |
Green | Dee Wright | 157 | 5.5 | -1.0 | |
Labour | Antony de Peyer | 66 | 2.3 | -0.6 | |
Majority | 201 | 7.0 | |||
Turnout | 2868 | 49.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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