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2023 Surrey Heath Borough Council election

The 2023 Surrey Heath Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect 32 of 35 members of Surrey Heath Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections. The Liberal Democrats took control of the council from a minority Conservative administration.

The 2023 Surrey Heath Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect 32 of 35 members of Surrey Heath Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections. The Liberal Democrats took control of the council from a minority Conservative administration.

Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being led by a Conservative minority administration. The election in the Frimley Green ward was postponed until 15 June 2023 following the death of one of the original candidates. Of the seats where elections were held on 5 May, the Liberal Democrats won 21 seats, enough to give them an overall majority on the council for the first time in its history.

The Liberal Democrat group leader before the election, Sashi Mylvaganam, was a candidate in Frimley Green ward and so had to wait until 15 June to see if he would be re-elected. As such, the party chose David Whitcroft instead to be the new leader of the council, being appointed at the subsequent annual meeting of the council on 17 May 2023. The Liberal Democrats won all three seats in the postponed Frimley Green election, with Sashi Mylvaganam returning to the council. The party then reconsidered its leadership, but chose to appoint neither Whitcroft nor Mylvaganam as its leader, appointing instead Shaun Macdonald. He was subsequently confirmed as the new leader of the council on 28 June 2023.

2023 Surrey Heath Borough Council election
Liberal Democrats	31	24	15	1	14	68.6	48.8	28,416	+20.4
Conservative	35	6	2	14	12	17.1	39.4	22,912	–7.4
Independent	7	3	0	1	1	8.6	6.7	3,927	–3.7
Labour	7	2	2	1	1	5.7	4.2	2,428	–1.8
Green	1	0	0	2	2	0.0	0.2	145	–4.7
Reform	2	0	0	0		0.0	0.6	372	N/A

The results for each ward were:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Conservative	1,061	55.1	+16.7
	Conservative	978	50.8	+8.1
	Liberal Democrats	681	35.4	−16.2
	Conservative	677	35.2	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	676	35.1	−9.3
	Liberal Democrats	599	31.1	−8.7
	Independent	364	18.9	N/A
	Reform	202	10.5	N/A
1,924	34.1
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,312	57.5	+34.4
	Liberal Democrats	902	39.5	+18.7
	Liberal Democrats	863	37.8	+21.0
	Conservative	753	33.0	−13.6
	Conservative	702	30.8	−12.5
	Conservative	625	27.4	−12.6
	Independent	598	26.2	−16.3
	Independent	408	17.9	N/A
2,281	32.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	783	60.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	722	56.1	N/A
	Conservative	511	39.7	−29.9
	Conservative	397	30.9	−36.0
1286	34.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Following the death of a candidate in Frimley Green ward (three members) the election was countermanded. A poll took place on the 15th June 2023, with Attieh Fard replacing the late Karen Campion.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,131	61.4	+6.7
	Liberal Democrats	1,111	60.3	+5.9
	Liberal Democrats	1,070	58.1	+10.4
	Conservative	738	42.4	+10.1
	Conservative	610	33.1	+2.6
	Conservative	608	33.0	+5.1
1842	35.6
5,174

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,613	65.3	+17.2
	Liberal Democrats	1,559	63.1	+10.0
	Liberal Democrats	1,512	61.2	+16.0
	Conservative	829	33.5	−5.5
	Conservative	819	33.1	−2.9
	Conservative	811	32.8	+0.8
2471	43.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,184	52.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	1,128	49.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	1,080	47.6	N/A
	Conservative	966	42.6	+3.3
	Conservative	943	41.5	−2.6
	Conservative	840	37.0	−1.3
	Reform	170	7.5	−7.2
	Labour	144	6.3	N/A
2270	42.7
	Liberal Democrats gain from Green
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Green

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	995	54.9	+10.3
	Liberal Democrats	961	53.0	+12.3
	Liberal Democrats	950	52.4	+11.8
	Conservative	752	41.5	−10.4
	Conservative	747	41.2	+8.3
	Conservative	661	36.4	+4.2
1814	32.0


	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	563	58.9	+10.7
	Conservative	504	52.7	+5.5
	Labour	393	41.1	−9.1
	Labour	382	40.0	−0.9
957	24.8

	Conservative gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	837	54.6	+20.3
	Liberal Democrats	833	54.3	+28.7
	Conservative	653	42.6	−14.8
	Conservative	642	41.9	−12.4
1534	39.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	684	56.5	+17.6
	Labour	661	54.6	+15.7
	Conservative	503	41.6	−16.3
	Conservative	417	34.5	−18.9
1210	28.1
	Labour gain from Conservative
	Labour gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	714	48.5	−19.2
	Conservative	692	47.0	−15.7
	Liberal Democrats	673	45.7	+14.0
	Liberal Democrats	654	44.4	+16.9
	Labour	83	5.6	N/A
	Labour	81	5.5	N/A
1472	38.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	706	59.6	+18.8
	Liberal Democrats	690	58.3	+22.6
	Conservative	457	38.6	−19.8
	Conservative	414	35.0	−19.0
1184	29.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	831	59.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	823	58.8	N/A
	Conservative	533	38.1	−23.1
	Conservative	511	36.5	−23.4
1400	34.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	864	43.6	−21.1
	Independent	790	39.9	−22.3
	Independent	611	30.8	−22.1
	Conservative	535	27.0	−3.6
	Liberal Democrats	534	26.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	513	25.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	490	24.7	N/A
	Conservative	394	19.9	−5.2
	Conservative	352	17.8	−5.0
	Independent	292	14.7	−6.3
	Green	145	7.3	N/A
1982	35.6

Sashi Mylvaganam defected to Independent before joining the Conservative group in 2024.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	394	44.7	N/A
	Conservative	278	31.6	–27.3
	Reform	109	12.4	N/A
	Labour	96	10.9	–30.2
	Independent	4	0.5	N/A
116	13.1	N/A
881	22.6	–2.2
3,894
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

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