2010 Portsmouth City Council election (original) (raw)

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2010 UK local government election

Map of the results of the 2010 Portsmouth council election. Liberal Democrats in orange, Conservatives in blue and Labour in red.

The 2010 Portsmouth City Council election took place on Thursday 6 May 2010 to elect members of Portsmouth City Council in Hampshire, England. The election took place on the same day as a parliamentary general election, and one third of the council (14 seats) was up for election using the first-past-the-post voting system. The Liberal Democrats won a majority of the seats being contested, and remained in overall control of the council, which they had achieved following a series of defections to the party in 2009.[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:[2]

NB: All comparisons are to the 2006 local elections, at which the same tranche of seats were contested.

Portsmouth Local Election Result 2010

Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
Liberal Democrats 8 3 0 +3 57.1 38.5 32,874
Conservative 5 0 2 -2 35.7 36.8 31,469
Labour 1 0 1 -1 7.1 19.4 16,578
English Democrat 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 3,038
Green 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 1,019
Independent 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 508

NB: All comparisons are to the 2006 local elections, at which the same tranche of seats were contested.

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