Southampton Council Election Summary

I couldn’t find a good summary of the Southampton council elections for the last few years. All of the data is on the council website with this years results here and past results here.

Southampton’s council elections work by electing one third of the 48 councillors at each election so to get a view of the makeup of the council you have to look at three election results and to see which seats were up for grabs this time you have to go back to the 2007 election. Therefore I’ve collated all that information in the table below, I’ve highlighted the seats that changed hands this election:

Seat	2007	2008	2010	2011
Bargate	Labour	Conservative	Labour	Labour
Basset	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative
Bevois	Labour	Labour	Labour	Labour
Bitterne	Labour	Conservative	Labour	Labour
Bitterne Park	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative
Coxford	Labour	Conservative	Labour	Labour
Freemantle	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative
Harefield	Conservative	Conservative (x2)	Conservative	Conservative
Millbrook	Conservative (x2)	Conservative	Labour	Labour
Peartree	Lib Dem	Conservative	Lib Dem	Labour
Portswood	Lib Dem	Conservative	Lib Dem	Conservative
Redbridge	Labour	Conservative	Labour	Labour
Shirley	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative	Labour
Sholing	Conservative	Conservative	Conservative	Labour
Swaythling	Conservative	Conservative	Lib Dem	Conservative
Woolston	Labour	Labour	Labour	Labour
Totals
Conservative	9	15	6	6
Labour	6	2	7	10
Lib Dem	2	0	3	0

Note that in Millbrook in 2007 and Harefield 2008 two seats were up for grabs although neither for the full 4 year term so 1 of each of them got replaced in the future elections. This means the council now has 26 Conservative members, 19 Labour and 3 Lib Dems.

I found it interesting how the Tories actually gained seats from the Lib Dems as well as losing others to Labour.