2024 Winchester City Council election

2024 Winchester City Council election
← 2023 2 May 2024 (2024-05-02) 2026 →
14 out of 45 seats to Winchester City Council
23 seats needed for a majority
Turnout41.4%[1]
  First party Second party
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Leader Martin Tod Caroline Horrill
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative
Leader since 2022 2017
Last election 30 seats, 50.1% 12 seats, 32.2%
Seats before 30 12
Seats won 11 2
Seats after 33 8
Seat change Increase3 Decrease4
Popular vote 17,258 11,301
Percentage 47.7% 31.3%
Swing Decrease2.3% Decrease0.9%
  Third party Fourth party
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Leader Malcolm Wallace N/A
Party Green Independent
Leader since 2023
Last election 2 seats, 12.7% 1 seat, 0.0%
Seats before 2 1
Seats won 1 0
Seats after 3 1
Seat change Increase1 Steady
Popular vote 5,198 552
Percentage 14.4% 1.5%
Swing Increase1.7% Increase1.5%
Map showing the wards of the Winchester City Council area coloured according to the winner in the 2024 local elections - with 11 Liberal Democrat wards coloured orange, 2 Conservative wards in blue and 1 Green Party ward in green. Two wards (Colden Common & Twyford and Upper Meon Valley) remain uncoloured since they did not have elections.
Ward map of Winchester, 2024
Leader before election

Martin Tod
Liberal Democrats

Leader after election

Martin Tod
Liberal Democrats

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.

There were 14 of the 45 seats on the council up for election, being the usual approximate third of the council. 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.[3]

  1. ^ "Winchester City Council - Local Election Thursday 2 May 2024: Political Split" (PDF). Winchester City Council. 3 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Three Winchester city councillors stepping down ahead of next election". Hampshire Chronicle. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  3. ^ Oliver, Toby (3 May 2024). "Winchester City Council election result: Conservatives lose four seats". Hampshire Chronicle. Retrieved 6 July 2024.