Conservatives achieved a magnificent success in the
51 Conservatives out of 78 councillors were elected. This is an increase of 6 on the old Council whilst liberal Democrats had a net loss of 3 as did Labour.
Labour now has just one councillor on the County Council.
Conservative gains were in New Forest, Test Valley, East Hampshire, Basingstoke, Gosport and Havant- in other words across the County.
Hampshire Conservatives have been entrusted with decisions that affect more than 1.2 million residents with a budget of about £1.7 billion on an authority which earlier this year was judged by the Audit Commission to be the best performing in the land and giving good value for money
Since 2001 Hampshire has operated a Leader with Cabinet structure and one of the key items on the agenda was the election of a Leader. Councillor Ken Thornber was voted in as Leader of the County Council for a fourth term. He was unable to be present at the meeting as he is recuperating following an accident at home and is recovering well.
New and returning councillors were welcomed by Deputy Leader Councillor Roy Perry. He said: Despite the events in
We are looking forward to a positive and very active four years maintaining the traditional high standards of the County Council,” he said.
Appointments to Cabinet were ratified. It's the Leader and Cabinet with its nine executive members acting individually who take the executive decisions that create policies on services affecting over 5,000 miles of roads, the care and support received by more than 100,000 elderly or vulnerable residents, the education of around 170,000 pupils in 540 schools, on libraries and waste.
The Cabinet members were confirmed as Cllr Roy Perry, Cllr Ray Ellis, Cllr Jonathan Glen, Cllr Felicity Hindson, Cllr Mel Kendal, Cllr David Kirk, Cllr Margaret Snaith and Cllr Colin Davidovitz.
Councillor Tim Knight (Fareham Crofton) was elected Chairman of the County Council and Councillor Carol Leversha (Farnborough West) was elected Vice Chairman.
Councillors were also appointed to the independent scrutiny function which holds the executive members to account for their decisions, as well as helping them make decisions by examining issues beforehand and making recommendations.
The political make-up of the Council is now 51 Conservatives, 25 Liberal Democrats, one Labour and one independent Community Campaign (Hart). After the 2005 elections the make-up was 46 Conservatives, 28 Liberal Democrats and 4 Labour.
Members of the Romsey and Southampton North Conservative Patrons Club met at the home of Caroline Nokes MP over the weekend for drinks and discussi
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Southampton City Council remains under Conservative control after last night& 39;s local election results, with strong Conservative wins in both Ba
The 2011 local elections in the part of the Romsey and Southampton North Constituency that is covered by Test Valley Borough Council were a success
After an exceptionally long day, at 3:45am we found out we had won with a majority of more than 4000 votes! This represents a swing of some 4.5% fr
Election day started bright and early in Romsey with a team of Conservative Future members from across Hampshire helping Caroline Nokes with the da
The last full day of campaigning was spent in Stockbridge, at Hampshire Collegiate School, Romsey and Valley Park. Clarissa Dickson-Wright the