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2024 Rushmoor Borough Council election

The 2024 Rushmoor Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect councillors to Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire, England. This was on the same date as other local elections across England. A third of the council was up for election. This set of seats was last contested in 2021.

The council was under Conservative majority control prior to the election. The election saw Labour win a majority on the council for the first time in its history. The Labour group leader, Gareth Williams, was appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 21 May 2024.

Results summary

Ward results

The results for each ward were as follows:

The changes in these results are changes from the 2023 Rushmoor Borough Council election. Sitting councillors standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*)

Aldershot Park

Cherrywood

Cove and Southwood

Empress

Fernhill

Knellwood

Manor Park

North Town

Rowhill

St John's

St Mark's

Wellington

West Heath

Changes 2024–2026

  • Dhan Sarki, elected for Labour in 2023, left the party in May 2024 to sit as an independent. He later rejoined the party in November 2024.
  • Calum Stewart, elected for the Conservatives in 2019, left the party in May 2025 to sit as an independent.
  • Jules Crossley, Halleh Koohestani, Nadia Martin and Becky Williams announced that they were leaving the Labour Party in September 2025 to form the Rushmoor Independent Group with standing independent councillor Abe Allen.

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