Elections to Gosport Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 increasing the number of seats by 4. The council stayed under no overall control.

Quick Facts All 35 seats to Gosport Borough Council 18 seats needed for a majority, First party ...

2002 Gosport Borough Council Election

← 2000 Gosport Borough Council election 2 May 2002 2004 →
All 35 seats to Gosport Borough Council 18 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative Seats won 12 12 10 Popular vote 6,456 5,323 7,830 Percentage 32.8 27.1 39.8
Council control before election No Overall Control Council control after election No Overall Control

Close

After the election, the composition of the council was

• Labour 12
• Liberal Democrat 12
• Conservative 10

The table below only tallies the votes of the highest polling candidate for each party within each ward. This is known as the top candidate method and is often used for multi-member plurality elections.

• 2002 Gosport election result
• Ward results
• Gosport: Tories slide from first to third place^{[permanent dead link]}