12 of the 37 seats to Crawley Borough Council 19 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Party
Labour
Conservative
Last election
20
16'
Seats before
21†
16
Seats won
3
9
Seats after
19
18
Seat change
2
2
Popular vote
15,671
21,760
Percentage
37.2%
51.6%
Map showing the results the 2015 Crawley Borough Council elections by ward. Blue show Conservative seats, and red shows Labour. Wards in grey had no election.
† Labour gained a seat from UKIP in a by-election in October 2014[3]
Council control before election
Labour
Council control after election
Labour
The 2015 Crawley Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect third of the members of Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex, England as part of the English local elections coinciding with the 2015 General Election.[4] The seats up for election were last contested in 2011.
The Labour Party governing group of councillors saw their majority reduced to one councillor, with one gained by a Conservative, keeping some areas of the authority having no representatives within the group with control of the council. Five of six seats held were retained by Labour candidates, keeping some areas with sole majority party representation. None of the unrepresented parties achieved a first or second place in any of the seats for which the election took place. Seats from two lower-population wards were without elections in 2015.[5][6][7]
Note:Southgate was won by Conservative councillor Karl Williamson at the previous regular election in 2011. However, Williamson defected to UKIP in 2013,[9] and stood down from the council in 2014,[10] and his seat was gained by Labour in the resulting by-election.[3]