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Elections

How Hastings voted. The most recent borough election was on 7 May 2026: 17 seats across 16 wards, as published by the returning officer.

7 May 2026polling day
17seats decided across 16 wards
30,945votes counted
47votes per 100 electors (66,076 on the roll)

Seats and votes are different things. Under first past the post a party can win most of the seats without most of the votes, or the other way round; both are shown below so you can see how far they differ. Turnout appears only where the council published an electorate, and for the election as a whole — the service gives none per ward. St Helens elected two councillors, so each elector there had two votes: the votes-per-100 figure sits a little above true turnout, which the council did not publish.

Seats won

Who took each ward's seat, by party.

How the vote split

Every vote cast across the borough, by party. The colours are the parties' usual ones; the name is always beside the bar.

Ward by ward

Each ward's candidates, most votes first, with the elected candidate marked.

Ashdown

Elected: Daniel Kendrick (Reform UK)

Baird

Elected: Will Rumfitt (Green)

Braybrooke

Elected: Archie Lauchlan (Green)

Castle

Elected: Steph Fawbert (Green)

Central St Leonards

Elected: Solly Solamito (Green)

Conquest

Elected: Rob Drew (Reform UK)

Gensing

Elected: Amanda Christabel Jobson (Green)

Hollington

Elected: Will Chapman (Reform UK)

Maze Hill

Elected: Karen Simnett (Green)

Old Hastings

Elected: Mike Frith (Green)

Ore

Elected: Clem McCulloch (Green)

Silverhill

Elected: Dulcie Reynolds (Green)

St Helens

Elected: Peter Anthony Clarke (Reform UK) · Andy Batsford (Independent)

Tressell

Elected: Glenn Haffenden (Green)

West St Leonards

Elected: Derek Lawrence (Reform UK)

Wishing Tree

Elected: Doreena Ross (Reform UK)

Every election on the record

33 elections since 2 May 2002: borough wards and by-elections, county divisions, the Hastings and Rye seat, and the police and crime commissioner. Each has its own page with every candidate's result.

Results published by Hastings Borough Council through its committee system, as returning officer for the town. Candidate names appear as official results and nowhere else on this record. Listed elections with no published results (European and referendum counts, some PCC years) are not shown. Who represents you now · the results as a dataset.