2012 Eastleigh Borough Council election

Elections to Eastleigh Council were held on 3 May 2012. 15 out of 44 council seats were up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was

• Liberal Democrat 40
• Conservative 4

Election result

Eastleigh Local Election Result 2012

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	13	2	0	+2	86.7
	Conservative	2	0	0	0	13.3
	Independent	0	0	2	-2	0
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0

Ward results

Bishopstoke East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Mignot	652	44.0
	UKIP	Martin Lyon	355	24.0
	Labour	Mary Shephard	253	17.1
	Conservative	Lorna Atterbury	221	14.9
Turnout			1,481	33.64
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bishopstoke West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Margaret Winstanley	709	45.4
	Conservative	Edward Maurice Law	155	9.9
	Labour	Sue Toher	531	34.0
	UKIP	Peter Stewart	165	10.6
Turnout			1,560	36.42
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Botley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rupert Gregory Miles Kyrle	897	49.9
	Conservative	Graham Hunter	619	34.4
	Labour	Kevin Williamson	161	9.0
	UKIP	Elizabeth McKay	121	6.7
Turnout			1,798	44.00
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bursledon and Old Netley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Holes	918	49.9
	Conservative	Frair Louise Burgess	510	27.7
	Labour	Stewart Hardie	155	8.4
	UKIP	John Tomlin	147	8.0
	Green	Iain Ross MacLennan	108	5.9
Turnout			1,838	31.60
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chandler's Ford East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Haulwen Veronica Broadhurst	644	48.9
	Conservative	Paul Adrian Cole	351	36.7
	Labour	Philip Grice	170	12.9
	UKIP	Paul Michael Webber	151	11.5
Turnout			1,316	35.03
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chandler's Ford West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Arthur Pragnell	763	47.1
	Conservative	Mark Adrian Streeter	551	34.0
	Labour	Peter Clayton	174	10.7
	UKIP	Viv Young	133	8.2
Turnout			1,621	33.75
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Eastleigh Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Major Bancroft	841	38.7
	Conservative	Michael Robert Cornwall Read	297	13.7
	Labour	Chris Gilkes	605	27.9
	UKIP	Danny Bradbeer	252	11.6
	Green	Stuart Charles Jebbitt	177	8.1
Turnout			2,172	27.10
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Eastleigh North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Thomas	894	46.2
	Conservative	Chris Rhodes	399	20.6
	Labour	Alison Penders	294	15.2
	UKIP	Caroline Janice Bradbeer	260	13.4
	Independent	Kathy Symonds	88	4.5
Turnout			1,935	30.22
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Eastleigh South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Darshan Singh Mann	742
	Labour	Peter Luffman	729
	Conservative	Cindy Harley George	286
	UKIP	Christopher Greenwood	194
Turnout			1,957	29.508
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Fair Oak and Horton Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Lewis Cossey	1,087
	Conservative	Colin George Atterbury	504
	Labour	Gwendoline Sheila Borrill	291
	UKIP	George Hugh Mcguinness	221
Turnout			2,105	30.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Hamble-Le-Rice and Butlocks Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Suzannah Louise Hamel	934
	Conservative	Elizabeth Kathleen Lear	643
	UKIP	Frederick William Estall	100
	Green	Linda Jane Maclennan	97
	Labour	Edward Tiras White	97
Turnout			1,880	41.84
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Hedge End St.Johns

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Lynn Welsh	1,070
	Conservative	Paul Andrew Redding	673
	UKIP	Michale Steven O`Donoghue	304
	Labour	Christine Hilda McKeone	174
Turnout			2,223	36.44
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Hiltingbury East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Godfrey George Olson	924
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Child	671
	Labour	Colin Sidney James Davies	112
	UKIP	Peter John House	90
	English Democrat	John Peter Edwards	64
Turnout			1,865	45.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hiltingbury West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Joseph Hughes	891
	Liberal Democrats	James Ian Duguid	482
	Labour	Kevin Richard Butt	165
	UKIP	Fiona Mapleson	123
	English Democrat	Mark Lancaster	42
Turnout			1,708	40.40
	Conservative hold		Swing

Netley Abbey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David John Aylwin Airey	906
	UKIP	Christopher David Martin	274
	Conservative	Maureen Beryl Queen	178
	Labour	Susan Jean Parkinson	139
Turnout			1,502	35.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

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