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The 2007 Southampton Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Southampton Unitary Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

• Conservative 18
• Labour 18
• Liberal Democrat 12

Campaign

Before the election the Conservative and Labour parties both had 16 seats, while the Liberal Democrats who formed the administration had 15 seats, with one seat, formerly Liberal Democrat, being vacant. 17 seats were being contested in the election, with 2 seats up in Millbrook after Liberal Democrat Virginia Moore resigned from the council.

In total 69 candidates were standing and as well as candidates from the national political parties, a couple of candidates stood for local parties called Southampton First and Southampton Save Our Services. They campaigned on local issues, with Southampton Save Our Services running on a platform calling for improved conditions for public sector workers in Southampton. Candidates also included a 20-year-old Conservative, Vince Capozzoli in Portswood, after the age for councillors was reduced from 21 to 18.

National politicians including Conservative leader David Cameron and Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain visited Southampton to campaign for their parties.

The council used an electronic system to check postal votes, but had to check them by hand after the system failed to read up to 40% of them.

Election result

The results saw no party win a majority, but the Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats, 2 each to the Conservative and Labour parties. The Conservatives won 9 of the 17 seats contested, to move to 18 seats, level with Labour, while the Liberal Democrats fell to 12 seats. One of the Conservative gains from the Liberal Democrats came in Swaythling and was put down to plans for a travellers' camp in the area, which had been opposed by the Conservative candidate. Overall turnout in the election was 30.2%.

Following the election Conservative group leader Alec Samuels was elected leader of the council. This came after one Liberal Democrat councillor, Norah Goss, voted in favour of a Conservative administration, breaking from the rest of the party who abstained.

Southampton Local Election Result 2007

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	9	2	0	2	52.9	37.5	20,321	5.0
	Labour	6	2	0	2	35.3	30.5	16,489	0.7
	Liberal Democrats	2	0	4	4	11.8	23.8	12,892	5.0
	Green	0	0	0		0	5.1	2,745	0.8
	UKIP	0	0	0		0	2.2	1,201	0.6
	Official Southampton First	0	0	0		0	0.6	299	0.6
	Socialist Alternative	0	0	0		0	0.2	116	0.1
	Southampton Save our Services	0	0	0		0	0.1	80	0.1

Ward results

Bargate

Bassett

Bevois

Bitterne

Bitterne Park

Coxford

Freemantle

Harefield

Millbrook

Peartree

Portswood

Redbridge

Shirley

Sholing

Swaythling

Woolston

References

1. "Southampton". BBC News Online. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
2. "National: Elections 2007: Town and country go to the polls". The Guardian. 4 May 2007. p. 6.
3. ^ "Countdown to May elections". Southern Daily Echo. 5 April 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
4. ^ Prince, Rosa (23 April 2007). "X factor; Forget the big three.. Here's who else is after your vote". Daily Mirror. p. 8.
5. "Nathan becomes youngest councillor in the country - without an election!". Southern Daily Echo. 16 April 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
6. "Hain gives local campaign a lift". Southern Daily Echo. 25 April 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
7. Smith, Matt (24 April 2007). "Political big guns on campaign trail in Hampshire". This is Hampshire. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
8. "Thousands of votes scrapped as chaos hits postal ballots". The Times. 3 May 2007. p. 2.
9. "Voting fraud system failing". Southern Daily Echo. 26 April 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
10. Woodward, Will (4 May 2007). "National: Elections 2007: Labour does better than feared, despite strong opposition gains: Early mixed results allow all parties to claim success: Tories struggle outside suburban and rural areas". The Guardian. p. 7.
11. Smith, Matt (4 May 2007). "Liberal Democrats lose Southampton". This is Hampshire. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
12. ^ Smith, Matt (5 May 2007). "Deals to be done in the wake of the local council elections". This is Hampshire. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
13. ^ "'Shock move' gives Tories power". BBC News Online. 17 May 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
14. ^ "Election details". Southampton City Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
15. "Results". The Times. 5 May 2007. p. 83.

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