2016 Winchester City Council election

2016 UK local government election

The 2016 Winchester City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

Every seat was contested following boundary changes which saw the number of seats reduce from 57 to 45. The count for this election was conducted on 7 May 2016.^[2]

Before the election, the composition of Winchester City Council was:

• Conservative 33
• Liberal Democrats 22
• Labour 2

The result of the election was:

• Conservatives 25
• Liberal Democrats 20.^[3]

Results summary

The table below only tallies the votes of the highest polling candidate for each party within each ward. This is known as the top candidate method and is often used for multi-member plurality elections.

Ward results

Bishop's Waltham

Central Meon Valley

Colden Common and Twyford

Denmead

Southwick and Wickham

St Barnabas

St Bartholomew

St Luke

St Michael

St Paul

The Worthys

Upper Meon Valley

References

^[4]

1. "Guide to May 2016 elections in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
2. "Winchester begins election count".
3. "District Election Results May 2016 • Winchester City Council". Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
4. "Election Results". www.winchester.gov.uk. Winchester City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2018.