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Hedge End South

Eastleigh · polled Thursday 30 July
Liberal Democrats defending

The Liberal Democrats won the ward's last contest in May 2026 with 43 per cent. Earlier contests were won by the Liberal Democrats in 2025 and 2024. 5 candidates stood.

The council

Eastleigh

Every ward and councillor, who runs the council, and each by-election since May.

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Result
Liberal Democrat hold
Party Share
Liberal Democrats46.1%
Conservative25.0%
Reform UK18.8%
Green8.4%
Labour1.7%

How this ward has voted
May 2024
May 2025 by-election
May 2026
ResultConservativeLabourLiberal DemocratsGreenReform UK
May 202621%-43%9%27%
May 202526%4%44%-26%
May 202430%11%53%6%-

Winning share of all votes cast in bold. Multi-member wards elect several councillors at once. Includes any county-division contest covering the same ground.

On the ballot
The council

Eastleigh is a district council: it runs housing, planning and bin collections. Current control: Liberal Democrat.

Current composition of 39 seats
Conservative 1Liberal Democrats 35Independents and others 3

Seats under the independents-and-others heading here have been won by independents at elections since 2022.

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Wards coloured by the party that last won them; the by-election ward is outlined. Hover a ward for its last result.

Ward profile
Degree-educated29%
Owner-occupied80%
Social renting8%
Recent results nearby

Hedge End & West End South county division, May 2026: Liberal Democrat 39%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 21%.

Upper tier

Schools, social care and highways here are run by Hampshire County Council, which is not affected by this vote.

In Westminster

The ward is part of the Hamble Valley constituency. Conservative MP Paul Holmes won it at the 2024 general election with 36 per cent of the vote.

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Council composition from Open Council Data. Candidates, candidate histories and polling-day information from Democracy Club. Historical ward results from the Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club. Boundary data contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.