One-third of Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire, England, is elected each year, followed by one year without election. From 1979, the council had 15 three-member wards, reduced to 14 wards in 2002 and 13 in 2012. Each ward elects 3 of the 39 councillors, one in each election year, for a term of four years, except in years when ward boundaries are changed when all councillors are elected for terms depending on their position in the poll.
Council composition
Since the current ward boundaries came in for the 2012 election, the composition of Rushmoor Borough Council has been:
Election | Conservative | Labour | Liberal Democrats | UKIP | Independent | Vacant |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | 25 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2019 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Current | 15 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Council elections
- 1973 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1976 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1979 Rushmoor Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
- 1980 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1982 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1983 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1984 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1986 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1987 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1988 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1990 Rushmoor Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
- 1991 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1992 Rushmoor Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
- 1994 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1995 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1996 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1998 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 1999 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2000 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2002 Rushmoor Borough Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 3)
- 2003 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2004 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2006 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2007 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2008 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2010 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2011 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2012 Rushmoor Borough Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 3)
- 2014 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2015 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2016 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2018 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2019 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2021 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2022 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2023 Rushmoor Borough Council election
- 2024 Rushmoor Borough Council election
Borough result maps
- 2002 results map
- 2003 results map
- 2004 results map
- 2006 results map
- 2007 results map
- 2008 results map
- 2010 results map
- 2011 results map
- 2012 results map
- 2014 results map
- 2015 results map
- 2016 results map
- 2018 results map
- 2019 results map
- 2021 results map
- 2022 results map
- 2023 results map
- 2024 results map
By-election results
1994–1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 466 | 37.4 | |||
Conservative | 373 | 29.9 | |||
Labour | 224 | 18.0 | |||
Independent | 112 | 9.0 | |||
Independent | 72 | 5.8 | |||
Majority | 93 | 7.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,247 | 33.1 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
1998–2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 467 | 49.0 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative | 429 | 45.0 | +5.3 | ||
Labour | 58 | 6.1 | −6.0 | ||
Majority | 38 | 4.0 | |||
Turnout | 954 | 24.7 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
2002–2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Suzan Gadsby | 573 | 49.1 | +25.0 | |
Conservative | David Thomas | 496 | 42.5 | −19.2 | |
Labour | June Smith | 99 | 8.5 | −5.7 | |
Majority | 77 | 6.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,168 | 26.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frank Rust | 649 | 57.7 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | Eric Neal | 286 | 25.4 | −3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Thompson | 189 | 16.8 | +5.7 | |
Majority | 363 | 32.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,124 | 25.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
2006–2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Manning | 515 | 43.2 | +18.7 | |
Conservative | Rosemary Possee | 445 | 37.4 | −7.5 | |
BNP | Janette Pedrick | 137 | 11.5 | −5.4 | |
Labour | Clive Grattan | 94 | 7.9 | −5.9 | |
Majority | 70 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,191 | 30.7 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Bridgeman | 423 | 37.3 | −1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lynch-Bowers | 382 | 33.6 | +7.7 | |
Conservative | Simon Poole | 330 | 29.1 | −6.0 | |
Majority | 41 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,135 | 24.9 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alex Crawford | 437 | 41.6 | +11.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Thompson | 354 | 33.7 | −8.1 | |
Conservative | Andrew Duncan | 259 | 24.7 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 83 | 7.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,050 | 22.0 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
2010–2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Attika Choudhary | 270 | 35.8 | −6.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mitch Manning | 238 | 31.6 | −3.7 | |
Labour | Sam Wines | 184 | 24.4 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | Eddie Poole | 50 | 6.6 | +6.6 | |
Independent | Roger Watkins | 12 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 32 | 4.2 | |||
Turnout | 754 | 13.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
2014–2018
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Dave Bell | 662 | 50.8 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Brian Parker | 312 | 24.0 | −5.4 | |
Labour | Sue Gadsby | 196 | 15.1 | −0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlie Fraser-Fleming | 132 | 10.1 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 350 | 26.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,302 | ||||
UKIP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jonathan Canty | 870 | 53.5 | +8.9 | |
UKIP | Chris Harding | 305 | 18.7 | −10.6 | |
Labour | Sue Gadsby | 262 | 16.1 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlie Fraser-Fleming | 190 | 11.7 | +3.9 | |
Majority | 565 | 34.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,627 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
2018–2022
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Mitchell | 687 | 54.7 | +16.5 | |
Conservative | Leon Hargreaves | 450 | 35.9 | +2.2 | |
Labour | Carl Hewitt | 118 | 9.4 | −6.1 | |
Majority | 237 | 18.9 | |||
Turnout | 1255 | 25% | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
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