2022 Reigate and Banstead Borough Council election

← 2021

5 May 2022 (2022-05-05)

2023 →

15 out of 45 seats to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
23 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Conservative	Green	Liberal Democrats
Last election	28 seats, 47.1%	7 seats, 20.9%	3 seats, 8.9%
Seats won	8	4	1
Seats after	27	9	3
Seat change	1	2
Popular vote	13,696	8,914	3,898
Percentage	36.6%	23.8%	10.4%
Swing	10.5%	2.9%	1.5%

Winner of each seat at the 2022 Reigate and Banstead Borough Council election

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

Conservative

The 2022 Reigate and Banstead Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council in England coinciding with other local elections. Fifteen of the council's 45 seats were up for election.^[1]

The Conservatives won eight of the fifteen seats available, retaining control of the council which they have held since 2000. The Green Party gained two seats, Horley East & Salfords and South Park & Woodhatch, from the Conservatives to remain the second-largest party. The only other seat to switch parties was Reigate which the Conservatives won from the independent incumbent Christopher Whinney.^[1]^[2]

Results summary

2022 Reigate and Banstead Borough Council election^[2]
Party		This election			Full council			This election
Party		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Conservative	8	1	53.3	19	27	60.0	13,696	36.6	-10.5
	Green	4	2	26.7	5	9	20.0	8,914	23.8	+2.9
	Liberal Democrats	1		6.7	2	3	6.7	3,898	10.4	+1.5
	Nork RA	1		6.7	2	3	6.7	1,524	4.1	-0.1
	Tattenham RA	1		6.7	2	3	6.7	1,243	3.3	+0.6
	Labour	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	6,634	17.7	+1.8
	Independent	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1,278	3.4	N/A
	Reform UK	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	271	0.7	N/A

Ward results

Banstead Village

Banstead Village
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sam Walsh	1,102	45.0	-23.5
	Independent	Mario Hayns	738	30.1	N/A
	Labour	Ian Thirlwall	243	10.0	0.0
	Liberal Democrats	Moray William Carey	208	8.5	-0.8
	Green	Jennifer Pope	158	6.5	-5.7
Majority			354	14.5
Turnout			2,449	36.5	-1.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chipstead, Kingswood and Woodansterne

Chipstead, Kingswood and Woodansterne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Parnall	1,562	62.1	-10.1
	Green	Shasha Khan	530	21.1	+5.7
	Labour	Geoff Eales	425	16.9	+4.5
Majority			1,032	41.0
Turnout			2,517	34.2	-4.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Earlswood and Whitebushes

Earlswood and Whitebushes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Ruth Ritter	1,604	65.3	+6.7
	Conservative	Kate Fairhurst	499	20.3	-14.9
	Labour	Mark Scott	353	14.4	+2.5
Majority			1,105	45.0
Turnout			2,456	34.6	-3.4
	Green hold		Swing

Hooley, Merstham and Netherne

Hooley, Merstham and Netherne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mus Tary	958	35.1	-7.1
	Labour	Mick Hay	734	26.9	-4.4
	Green	Sam Dilliway-Davies	694	25.4	+2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Burr	343	12.6	-8.8
Majority			224	8.2
Turnout			2,729	34.5	-0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Horley Central and South

Horley Central and South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hannah Avery	1,101	48.1	-9.5
	Labour	Lynnette Easterbrook	684	29.9	+3.6
	Green	Neville Kemp	323	14.1	-2.0
	Reform UK	Chris Scott	181	7.9	N/A
Majority			417
Turnout			2,289	31.1	-1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Horley East and Salfords

Horley East and Salfords
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Victoria Chester	1,049	41.7	-0.4
	Conservative	Robert Marr	1,025	40.7	-18.1
	Labour	Tom Latter	444	17.6	-0.3
Majority			24	1.0
Turnout			2,518	35.4	-0.6
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing

Horley West and Sidlow

Horley West and Sidlow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Baker	1,079	48.2	-10.6
	Labour	Cecilia Hughes	798	35.7	+8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Wotton	361	16.1	+2.0
Majority			281	12.6
Turnout			2,238	29.1	-0.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lower Kingswood, Tadworth and Walton

Banstead Village
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rod Ashford	1,720	62.5	-5.3
	Green	Roger Ponsford	584	21.2	+10.9
	Labour	David Burnley	448	16.3	+7.2
Majority			1,136	41.3
Turnout			2,752	35.4	-3.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Meadvale and St. John's

Meadvale and St. John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Thompson	1,585	56.4	+13.4
	Conservative	Ronnie Hutchings	762	27.1	-11.5
	Labour	Rosie Norgrove	461	16.4	-0.1
Majority			823	29.3
Turnout			2,808	42.6	+0.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Nork

Nork
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nork RA	George Hinton	1,524	60.7	+8.7
	Conservative	Pamela Freeman	572	22.8	-1.5
	Labour	Calli Mistry	222	8.8	+3.2
	Green	Flip Bakker	192	7.6	N/A
Majority			952	37.9	-0.1
Turnout			2,510	34.9
	Nork RA hold		Swing

Redhill East

Redhill East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Stephen McKenna	1,414	64.1	-0.7
	Conservative	Shysta Manzoor	385	17.5	-6.1
	Labour	Rex Giles	259	11.7	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Holmes	148	6.7	N/A
Majority			1,029	46.6
Turnout			2,206	35.9	-3.1
	Green hold		Swing

Redhill West and Wray Common

Redhill West and Wray Common
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rich Michalowski	867	33.3	-9.3
	Labour	Mark Smith	715	27.4	+8.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jemma De Vincenzo	525	20.2	+1.7
	Green	Frank Percy	498	19.1	-0.6
Majority			152	5.8
Turnout			2,605	36.6	-1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Reigate

Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victor Lewanski	1,062	34.8	-14.4
	Liberal Democrats	John Vincent	728	23.9	+2.9
	Independent	Christopher Whinney	540	17.7	N/A
	Green	Claire Thorpe	474	15.5	-4.8
	Labour	Tony Robinson	248	8.1	-1.4
Majority			334	10.9
Turnout			3,052	41.7	+2.3
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

South Park and Woodhatch

South Park and Woodhatch
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Andrew Proudfoot	1,280	56.7	+4.4
	Conservative	Chris Reynolds	590	26.2	-10.0
	Labour	Linda Giles	296	13.1	+1.6
	Reform UK	Joseph Fox	90	4.0	N/A
Majority			690	30.6
Turnout			2,256	35.3	-3.7
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing

Tattenham Corner and Preston

Tattenham Corner and Preston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tattenham RA	Nick Harrison	1,243	60.0	+2.6
	Conservative	Aaron Doherty	412	19.9	-3.6
	Labour	Steve Boeje	304	14.7	+3.2
	Green	Alistair Morten	114	5.5	+1.1
Majority			831	40.1
Turnout			2,073	28.9	-1.1
	Tattenham RA hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "Borough Council elections results 2022". Reigate and Banstead Borough Council. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Reigate & Banstead election result". BBC News. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

v t e (2021 ←) 2022 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2023)
London boroughs (England)	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster
Metropolitan boroughs (England)	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities (England)	Blackburn with Darwen Cumberland Derby Halton Hartlepool Kingston upon Hull Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Yorkshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Slough Somerset Southampton Southend-on-Sea Swindon Thurrock Westmorland and Furness Wokingham
District councils (England)	Adur Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Castle Point Cheltenham Cherwell Chorley Colchester Crawley Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gosport Harlow Hart Hastings Havant Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone Newcastle-under-Lyme Mole Valley North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor South Cambridgeshire St Albans Stevenage Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing
Mayoral elections	Croydon Hackney Lewisham Newham South Yorkshire Tower Hamlets Watford
Unitary authorities (Scotland)	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray Na h-Eileanan Siar North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian
Unitary authorities (Wales)	Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham

v t e Council elections in Surrey
Surrey County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1965 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Elmbridge Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Epsom and Ewell Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Guildford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Mole Valley District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Runnymede Borough Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Spelthorne Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Surrey Heath Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Tandridge District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Waverley Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Woking Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
See also: Wards Boundary changes Middlesex County Council elections (1889–1965)