Southampton City Council election, 2019

3 May 2019

16 of the 48 seats to Southampton City Council
23 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Christopher Hammond	Dan Fitzhenry
Party	Labour	Conservative
Seats before	25	19

Map of 2019 wards

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

TBD

Elections to Southampton City Council will take place on Thursday 2 May 2019, alongside other local elections across the country. The Labour Party held a narrow majority of two at the last election and the seats contested in this election were last contested in 2015 Labour will defend 7 seats, the Conservatives will defend 8, whilst independent councillors in the city will defend 2.

Background

Southampton City Council will hold local elections on 2 May 2019 along with councils across England as part of the 2019 local elections. The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election each fourth year to correspond with councillors' four-year terms.^[1]^[2] Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2015. In that election, 8 Conservative candidates, 7 Labour candidates were elected and independent 'People Before Profit' councillor was elected in Coxford. After the 2015 local election, the Labour party saw a loss of one of their Councillors, who formed the Southampton Independents party.^[3] The last election in 2018 saw the both the council leader Simon Letts and leader of the Conservative bloc in the city be defeated in their wards by each other's party. Letts was replaced with Christopher Hammond as council leader, and Dan Fitzhenry as leader of the Conservatives.^[4]

People Before Profit, an independent group with all three of its councillors elected in the Coxford ward, decided to separate after the 2018 election.^[5]

Overall results

After the previous election and immediately ahead of this election, the composition of the council was:

↓
25	19	4
Labour	Conservative	Oth

References

↑ "Local government structure and elections". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
↑ "Election Timetable in England" (PDF).
↑ "Southampton councillor Andrew Pope stands down and Stephen Barnes-Andrews quits as finance chief". Southern Daily Echo. Newsquest. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
↑ "Dan Fitzhenry says 'Potholes are my priority'". Southern Daily Echo. Newsquest. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
↑ William Rimell (20 June 2018). "Independent group on city council to split". Southern Daily Echo. Newsquest. Retrieved 13 September 2018.

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Mayoral elections (England)	Bedford Copeland Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay
District councils (Northern Ireland)	Antrim and Newtownabbey Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry and Strabane Fermanagh and Omagh Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid-Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down North Down and Ards

Council elections in Hampshire
Hampshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
East Hampshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Eastleigh Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Fareham Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Gosport Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Hart District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Havant Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
New Forest District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Portsmouth City Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Rushmoor Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Southampton City Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Test Valley Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Winchester City Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
See also: Wards Boundary changes

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