2024 Hastings Borough Council election

2024 Hastings Borough Council election
2 May 2024 (2024-05-02)
16 out of 32 seats to Hastings Borough Council
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Julia Hilton Heather Bishop n/a
Party Green Labour Independent
Last election 5 seats, 23.5% 15 seats, 42.1% 0 seats, 0.0%
Seats before 4 6 11
Seats won 9 5 0
Seats after 12 8 7
Seat change 8 2 4
Popular vote 9,013 7,724 1,765
Percentage 37.7% 32.4% 7.4%
Swing 14.2% 9.7% N/A
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Andy Patmore
Party Conservative Reform UK
Last election 12 seats, 29.6% 0 seats, 0.0%
Seats before 10 1
Seats won 2 0
Seats after 5 0
Seat change 5 1
Popular vote 4,550 345
Percentage 19.1% 1.4%
Swing 10.5% N/A
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Hastings Borough Council election
Leader before election

Julia Hilton
Green
No overall control

 Leader after election

Julia Hilton
Green
No overall control

The 2024 Hastings Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. Half of the 32 members of Hastings Borough Council in East Sussex were elected. The council remained under no overall control, but the Green Party made significant gains in their number of seats, becoming the largest party on the council. The Conservatives performed poorly, losing a third of their 2023 share of the vote and half their seats. Reform UK also lost their only seat, which they had gained in May 2023 following a Conservative Councillor switching parties. The Labour group leader, Heather Bishop, lost her seat.

Prior to the election, the council was being run by a minority coalition of the Green Party and the subset of the independent councillors known as the 'Hastings Independent Group'. Following the election a Green minority administration formed instead.

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