The 2015 Hart District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of the Hart District Council in England.^[1] It was held on the same day as other local elections. Prior to this elections, the Conservatives held a plurality with 14 seats but did not hold a majority, whilst the Liberal Democrats and Community Campaign (Hart) both had 8 seats. The remaining seat was held by an independent.

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2015 Hart District Council Election

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12 seats to Hart District Council 17 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Conservative Liberal Democrats CCH Seats before 14 9 9 Seats won 8 2 2 Seats after 16 8 8 Seat change +2 -1 -1
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Council control before election No overall control Council control after election No overall control

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These were the second elections to be held with the new boundaries after the 2014 elections, which saw the Conservatives elected the largest party but without a majority, while Community Campaign (Hart) and the Liberal Democrats won nine seats each alongside won independent candidate. As such, the council remained under no overall control.

n the 2015 election, the Conservatives were the only party to make gains, winning two new seats, one each from the Liberal Democrats and Community Campaign Hart, with no other changes. The council remained under no overall control. As well as the three party groups on the council, one independent from Hook Ward remained but was not up for election until 2018.

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. Most wards only had one seat up for election, but several had two.

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Hart District Council election, 2015^[2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	16	2	0	2	48.48	50.87	25,450
	Liberal Democrats	8	0	1	1	24.24	17.50	8757
	CCH	8	0	1	1	24.24	14.19	7104
	UKIP	0	0	0			10.51	5260
	Labour	0	0	0			6.67	3340
	Green	0	0	0			0.23	118

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