Thank you

Thank you to everyone who voted and worked for us on Thursday. It was a very encouraging result.

Overall, in the new Winchester constituency

• We gained three seats – two from Labour and one from the Conservatives
• We doubled or trebled our majorities in most of the seats we held
• We achieved a 4.5% swing in votes cast from the Conservatives towards us

Our ‘Greener, Fairer, Safer’ pledges got us a lot of support.

Highlights included:

• Colden Common & Twyford – Jim Wagner and his team nearly quadrupled the Lib Dem majority from 121 to 442
• Compton & Otterbourne – Eleanor Bell and her team won this ward from the Conservatives with a 7% swing achieving a 128 vote majority
• Littleton & Harestock – Kelsie Learney and her team nearly trebled the Lib Dem majority from 109 to 303
• St Barnabas – Allan Mitchell and his team cut the Conservative majority from 251 to 144
• St Bartholomew – Sue Nelmes and her team more than trebled the Lib Dem majority to 355 behind a 6% swing from the Conservatives
• St John – Adrian Hicks and the St John’s team won this ward from Labour winning a 259 majority
• St Luke – Alexis Fall and her team won this ward from Labour with an 18% swing giving a 308 vote majority
• St Paul – Karen Barratt and her team more than trebled our majority to 383

Our colleagues in Eastleigh (which covers the Chandler’s Ford part of the new constituency) also had a great day, winning 13 out of 14 seats up for election.

Elsewhere in the Winchester City Council area, we won in Wickham, but lost Owslebury & Curdridge and came within 19 votes of winning Whiteley from the Conservatives. If 10 people had voted differently in Whiteley, the Conservatives would have lost their majority and the council would have moved to No Overall Control…

Overall – a good day for the Liberal Democrats in Winchester – and a bad day for the Conservatives and Labour.