Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election, 2014

The 2014 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

22 seats out of 60 seats were up for election. Due to the resignation of a councillor elected in 2012, Brighton Hill South had two seats for re-election. The first-placed finisher was elected to a regular four-year term and the second-placed finisher was elected to serve until 2016. Another councillor had stood down in Baughurst and Tadley North, and thus a councillor was elected to fill out the 2011-15 term in that seat.

Of the seats contested, the parties won the following number of seats:

• Conservatives: 8
• Labour: 8
• Liberal Democrats: 3
• Independents: 2
• UKIP: 1

The overall composition of the council compared to immediately before the election was:

• Conservative: 29 ( 1)
• Labour: 17 ( 3)
• Liberal Democrats: 8 ( 3)
• Independents: 4 ( 0)
• UKIP: 2 ( 1)

The Conservatives had lost their majority on the council in 2013 due to defections, and since then had operated a minority administration. They lost a single seat (Buckskin) to Labour and continued their minority administration. In Basing, a councillor who had been elected as a Conservative in 2010 was re-elected as an independent.^[2] Labour retained their position as the largest opposition party, gaining three seats from the Liberal Democrats (Brookvale and Kings Furlong, Brighton Hill North and Brighton Hill South). UKIP won their first elected seat on the council, gaining the second seat in Brighton Hill South that had been vacated by Labour.

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