12 seats to Hart District Council 17 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Party
Conservative
Liberal Democrats
Community Campaign Hart
Seats before
14
9
9
Seats won
8
2
2
Seats after
16
8
8
Seat change
+2
-1
-1
Results map
Council control before election
No overall control
Council control after election
No overall control
The 2015 HartDistrict Councilelection took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of the Hart District Council in England.[1] It was held on the same day as other local elections. Prior to this elections, the Conservatives held a plurality with 14 seats but did not hold a majority, whilst the Liberal Democrats and Community Campaign (Hart) both had 8 seats. The remaining seat was held by an independent.
These were the second elections to be held with the new boundaries after the 2014 elections, which saw the Conservatives elected the largest party but without a majority, while Community Campaign (Hart) and the Liberal Democrats won nine seats each alongside won independent candidate. As such, the council remained under no overall control. In the 2015 election, the Conservatives were the only party to make gains, winning two new seats, one each from the Liberal Democrats and Community Campaign Hart, with no other changes. The council remained under no overall control. As well as the three party groups on the council, one independent from Hook Ward remained but was not up for election until 2018.
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. Most wards only had one seat up for election, but several had two.