The 2010 Basingstoke and Deane Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of

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Council in

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. It was part of the wider English Local Elections, which were postponed from their usual date of the first Thursday of May so that they could coincide with the General Election of that year. One third of the council was up for election and the

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stayed in overall control of the council.

Background

Between the 2008 election and 2010, 2 Conservatives

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s left the party. Husband and wife Phil and Christine Heath split from the Conservatives in 2008 and formed the Basingstoke First Community Party, which would contest the 2010 election.

Election result

The results saw the Conservatives increase their majority on the council from 5 to 7 seats, after making 1 gain to have 34 councillors. They retook

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, which had formerly been held by the leader of the Basingstoke First Community Party, Christine Heath. Heath did not defend the seat which she had held for the previous 7 years, instead she stood in

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and

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, which was held by the Conservatives. The other parties retained all the seats they had been defending, meaning the Liberal Democrats remained on 14 seats,

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9 and independents 2, while the Basingstoke First Community Party was left with 1 seat which was not contested at the election. Overall turnout in the election was 67.5%.

Ward results

References

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