2021 Worthing Borough Council election

2021 Worthing Borough Council election

May 6, 2021 (2021-05-06)
13 of the 37 seats to Worthing Borough Council
Leader Daniel Humphreys Rebecca Cooper Robert Smytherman Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Offington Marine Tarring Current seats 23 10 3 Seats needed 9 16
Incumbent Council control Conservative

The 2021 Worthing Borough Council election is scheduled to take place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Worthing Borough Council, on the same day as other UK local elections. This election was originally scheduled to take place on 7 May 2020, but was delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic; 2021 was originally scheduled to be an off-year for Worthing Borough Council elections. A third of the council will be up for election, a total of 13 councillors. Candidates elected in 2016 will have their term expire at this election.

The Conservative Party will seek to maintain its majority, which it has held in the town since 2004. In the 2018 election, the Labour Party emerged as the largest opposition party in Worthing; this election will be the first since the incorporation of the Borough Council in 1974 in which it is technically possible for Labour to win a majority.

Seats up for election

13 council seats are up for election; one in each ward. Two of these have been subject to by-elections since 2016: Marine, which Labour gained from the Conservatives, and Salvington, which the Conservatives held.

width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Castle	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Durrington	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Gaisford	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Goring	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Marine	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Northbrook
width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Offington	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2018 Salvington	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Castle	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Goring	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Marine	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Offington
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width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:3px solid #000000;" | Goring Conservative	← Majority
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width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; border:3px solid #000000;" | Marine Labour	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Selden	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Heene	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Gaisford	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Central	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2019 Broadwater
width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;| 2018 Selden	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;| 2018 Heene	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;| 2018 Central	width=110px style="color:white; background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;| 2018 Broadwater	width=110px style="color:black; background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color; | 2019 Tarring	width=110px style="color:black; background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color; | 2018 Tarring

Seats up for election in 2021 are outlined in black, coloured according to their current party.