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The2024 Fareham Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside theother local elections in the United Kingdom. All 32 members ofFareham Borough Council inHampshire were elected following boundary changes.
The council remained underConservative majority control.
Since its creation in 1974, only the Conservatives have ever formed majorities on the council. The party has held majorities on the council for its entire history, except between1986 and1987, and between1994 and1999.[1] TheLiberal Democrats briefly overtook the Conservatives as the largest party in this second period ofno overall control, but never formed a majority.
In theprevious election in 2022, the Conservatives gained 2 seats with 45.7% of the vote, the Liberal Democrats maintained their 5 seats with 25.7%, andindependents won 1 with 3.9%. The leader of the council prior to the election was Conservative councillor Seán Woodward, who had held the post since 1999. He did not stand for re-election in 2024. After the election, the Conservatives chose Simon Martin to be their new group leader; he was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 16 May 2024.[2]
Fareham usually elects its councillors in halves, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards.[3] The change increases the number of councillors by 1.
| Old wards[4] | No. of seats | New wards | No. of seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fareham East | 2 | Avenue | 2 |
| Fareham North | 2 | Fareham Park | 2 |
| Fareham North-West | 2 | Fareham Town | 2 |
| Fareham South | 2 | Fort Fareham | 2 |
| Fareham West | 2 | Hill Head | 2 |
| Hill Head | 2 | Hook-with-Warsash | 2 |
| Locks Heath | 2 | Locks Heath | 2 |
| Park Gate | 3 | Park Gate | 2 |
| Portchester East | 3 | Portchester Castle | 2 |
| Portchester West | 2 | Portchester Wicor | 2 |
| Sarisbury | 2 | Sarisbury and Whiteley | 2 |
| Stubbington | 2 | Stubbington | 2 |
| Titchfield | 2 | Titchfield | 2 |
| Titchfield Common | 2 | Titchfield Common | 2 |
| Warsash | 2 | Uplands and Funtley | 2 |
| Wallington and Downend | 2 |
| After2022 election | Before 2024 election[5] | After 2024 election[6] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| Conservative | 25 | Conservative | 24 | Conservative | 22 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 5 | Liberal Democrats | 4 | Liberal Democrats | 8 | |||
| Independent | 1 | Independent | 3 | Independent | 1 | |||
| Labour | 1 | |||||||
Changes 2022–2024:

An asterisk indicates an incumbent councillor.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tina Ellis* | 1,310 | 58.0 | ||
| Conservative | Roger Bird* | 1,114 | 49.3 | ||
| Labour | James Webb | 451 | 20.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Davies | 418 | 18.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sue Flewitt | 395 | 17.5 | ||
| Green | Baz Marie | 292 | 12.9 | ||
| Majority | 663 | 29.3 | |||
| Turnout | 2,283 | 37 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Fred Birkett* | 689 | 41.3 | ||
| Conservative | Lisa Birkett | 669 | 40.1 | ||
| Labour | Carina Smith | 474 | 28.4 | ||
| Labour | Andrew Mooney | 461 | 27.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kerry Stubbs | 440 | 26.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Ben Foster | 398 | 23.8 | ||
| Majority | 195 | 11.7 | |||
| Turnout | 1,694 | 29 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Lisa Whittle | 810 | 50.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kirsten Wiltshire | 763 | 47.2 | ||
| Conservative | Melojane Herbert | 384 | 23.7 | ||
| Conservative | Julie Bird | 367 | 22.7 | ||
| Labour | Abbie Eales | 278 | 17.2 | ||
| Labour | Lee Woods | 229 | 14.2 | ||
| Green | John Vivian | 166 | 10.3 | ||
| Majority | 379 | 23.5 | |||
| Turnout | 1,630 | 32 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gemma Furnivall | 751 | 40.4 | ||
| Conservative | Stephen Ingram* | 637 | 34.3 | ||
| Labour | James Fellows | 632 | 34.0 | ||
| Conservative | Freya North | 601 | 32.4 | ||
| Green | Nick Lyle | 230 | 12.4 | ||
| Independent | Nick Gregory | 214 | 11.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Tilley | 213 | 11.5 | ||
| Independent | Sharon Hughes | 205 | 11.0 | ||
| Majority | 5 | 0.3 | |||
| Turnout | 1,869 | 32 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Kay Mandry* | 1,167 | 49.2 | ||
| Conservative | Steve Dugan* | 1,124 | 47.4 | ||
| Labour | Lynne Murray | 743 | 31.3 | ||
| Labour | David Rodgers | 569 | 24.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Max Zambo | 353 | 14.9 | ||
| Reform UK | Gerry Drabble | 227 | 9.6 | ||
| Reform UK | Owen Drabble | 202 | 8.5 | ||
| Majority | 381 | 16.1 | |||
| Turnout | 2,387 | 41 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mike Ford* | 1,146 | 60.3 | ||
| Conservative | Frair Burgess* | 1,077 | 56.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jon Sacker | 400 | 21.1 | ||
| Labour | Antony Ferraro | 322 | 17.0 | ||
| Green | Lewis Hall | 277 | 14.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Dominic Wong | 171 | 9.0 | ||
| Green | Tom Newman | 82 | 4.3 | ||
| Majority | 677 | 35.6 | |||
| Turnout | 1,917 | 38 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Susan Bayford* | 1,150 | 52.5 | ||
| Conservative | Malcolm Daniells* | 981 | 44.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sue Hardie | 587 | 26.8 | ||
| Labour | Alexander Reed | 442 | 20.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Dave Leonard | 419 | 19.1 | ||
| Green | Anne-Marie Burdfield | 301 | 13.7 | ||
| Majority | 394 | 18.0 | |||
| Turnout | 2,211 | 36 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Bastable* | 957 | 46.2 | ||
| Conservative | Simon Martin* | 948 | 45.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Everdell | 921 | 44.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Gayathri Sathyanath | 635 | 30.7 | ||
| Labour | Verden Meldrum | 343 | 16.6 | ||
| Majority | 27 | 1.3 | |||
| Turnout | 2,085 | 34 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Chrissie Bainbridge* | 1,117 | 51.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | David Wiltshire | 1,007 | 46.0 | ||
| Conservative | Susan Walker* | 694 | 31.7 | ||
| Conservative | Nicholas Walker* | 684 | 31.2 | ||
| Labour | Tania Almond | 320 | 14.6 | ||
| Labour | Richard Ryan | 308 | 14.1 | ||
| Majority | 313 | 14.3 | |||
| Turnout | 2,213 | 54 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Nother* | 926 | 51.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Whittle | 835 | 46.5 | ||
| Conservative | Tom Davies | 553 | 30.8 | ||
| Conservative | Claire Turner | 548 | 30.5 | ||
| Labour | Dominic Martin | 251 | 14.0 | ||
| Labour | Adriano Maluf | 187 | 10.4 | ||
| Majority | 282 | 15.7 | |||
| Turnout | 1,812 | 35 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Joanne Burton | 1,178 | 53.5 | ||
| Conservative | David Foot* | 1,036 | 47.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Hughes | 1,002 | 45.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Targ | 843 | 38.3 | ||
| Majority | 34 | 1.5 | |||
| Turnout | 2,226 | 37 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Pal Hayre* | 1,140 | 52.4 | ||
| Conservative | Jacquie Needham* | 860 | 39.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alex Brims | 462 | 21.2 | ||
| Labour | Joseph Adamson | 424 | 19.5 | ||
| Labour | Ivan Gray | 379 | 17.4 | ||
| Reform UK | Jimmy Roberts | 270 | 12.4 | ||
| Reform UK | Keith Barton | 226 | 10.4 | ||
| Majority | 398 | 18.3 | |||
| Turnout | 2,195 | 40 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Connie Hockley* | 878 | 47.6 | ||
| Conservative | Tiffany Harper* | 828 | 44.9 | ||
| Labour | Michael Prior | 442 | 24.0 | ||
| Independent | Chris Milburn | 425 | 23.0 | ||
| Green | Rebecca Longley | 336 | 18.2 | ||
| Independent | Kevin Fraser | 302 | 16.4 | ||
| Majority | 386 | 20.9 | |||
| Turnout | 1,857 | 33 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Jack Englefield* | 1,255 | 58.2 | ||
| Conservative | Andrew Murphy | 904 | 41.9 | ||
| Independent | Sarah Pankhurst* | 677 | 31.4 | ||
| Labour | James Carr | 376 | 17.4 | ||
| Majority | 227 | 10.5 | |||
| Turnout | 2,167 | 36 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Pamela Bryant* | 657 | 42.9 | ||
| Conservative | Louise Clubley* | 619 | 40.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jeannie Wigmore | 584 | 38.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hazel Croft-Phillips | 540 | 35.2 | ||
| Labour | Trevor Kettle | 192 | 12.5 | ||
| Green | David Harrison | 159 | 10.4 | ||
| Green | Dilys Harrison | 154 | 10.1 | ||
| Majority | 35 | 2.3 | |||
| Turnout | 1,545 | 42 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | David Hamilton* | 1,024 | 50.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alison West | 939 | 46.7 | ||
| Conservative | Harry Davis* | 815 | 40.5 | ||
| Conservative | Manny Martins | 772 | 38.4 | ||
| Labour | Leslie Ricketts | 208 | 10.3 | ||
| Green | Dawn Rowlatt | 136 | 6.8 | ||
| Green | Lydia Brown | 128 | 6.4 | ||
| Majority | 124 | 6.2 | |||
| Turnout | 2,011 | 41 | |||
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