Elections to
Gosport Borough Council
Gosport Borough Council is the local authority for the borough of Gosport, in the county of Hampshire, England. The council consists of 28 councillors, two or three for each of the 14 wards in the town. It is currently controlled by the Liberal D ...
took place on the 5th May 2022 as part of the
2022 United Kingdom local elections
Local elections in the United Kingdom took place on 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, for all local authorities in Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and in Scotland ...
.
The
Liberal Democrats gained control of the council from the
Conservative Party
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.
Background
The whole council was up for election following a boundary review.
This reduced the size the council from 34 to 28.
The seats up had previously been elected in 2018 and 2021. The elections in
2018
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, saw the Liberal Democrats gain four seats: two from Conservatives, and one each from the Labour and UKIP. The Conservatives however gained the sole UKIP seat, retaining their majority on the council. The other half of seats were elected in
2021
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, when the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour. This left the council with a Conservative majority of four.
Summary
Election result
Ward results
Alverstoke
Anglesey
Bridgemary
Brockhurst and Privett
Elson
Forton
Grange and Alver Valley
Harbourside and Town
Hardway
Leesland and Newtown
Lee East
Lee West
Peel Common
Rowner and Holbrook
References
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Gosport
Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite t ...
2020s in Hampshire
2022
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