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East Sussex

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EAST SUSSEX

Elected in 2021 (50): Con 27, Lib Dem 11, Lab 5, Green Party 4, Independent 3

Retiring Councillors (as at 09.11.2024) (50): Con 24, Lib Dem 12, Lab 5, Green Party 5, Independent 2, Independent Democrats 2


Eastbourne

Stephen Holt (Lib Dem) (Devonshire)
Colin Swansborough (Lib Dem) (Hampden Park)
Alan Shuttleworth (Lib Dem) (Langney)
Brett Wright (Lib Dem) (Meads) – elected in by-election (03.08.2023)
John Ungar (Lib Dem) (Old Town)
Colin Belsey (Con) (Ratton)
David Tutt (Lib Dem) (St. Anthony’s)
*Penny di Cara (Con) (Sovereign)
Pat Rodohan (Lib Dem) (Upperton)

Hastings

Peter Pragnell (Con) (Ashdown and Conquest)
Alan Hay (Con) (Baird and Ore)
Godfrey Daniel (Lab) (Braybrooke and Castle)
Trevor Webb (Lab) (Central St. Leonards and Gensing)
Phil Scott (Lab) (Hollington and Wishing Tree)
Matthew Beaver (Con) (Maze Hill and West St. Leonards)
*Julia Hilton (Green Party) (Old Hastings and Tressell)
*Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood (Con) (St. Helens and Silverhill)

Lewes

Matthew Milligan (Con) (Chailey)
*Wendy Maples (Green Party) (Lewes)
Johnny Denis (Green Party) (Ringmer and Lewes Bridge)
*Sarah Osborne (Lib Dem) (Ouse Valley West and Downs)
*Christine Robinson (Lab) (Telscombe)
James MacCleary (Lib Dem) (Newhaven and Bishopstone)
Chris Collier (Lab) (Peacehaven)
Sam Adeniji (Con) (Seaford North)
*Carolyn Lambert (Lib Dem) (Seaford South)

Rother

*Kathryn Field (Lib Dem) (Battle and Crowhurst)
Charles Clark (Independent) (Bexhill East)
Abul Azad (Independent, elected as Con) (Bexhill North)
Ian Hollidge (Con) (Bexhill South)
*Nuala Geary (Con) (Bexhill West)
Carl Maynard (Con) (Brede Valley and Marsham)
Paul Redstone (Con) (Northern Rother)
*Eleanor Kirby-Green (Con) (Rother North West)
Keith Glazier (Con) (Rye and Eastern Rother)

Wealden

Nick Bennett (Con) (Arlington, East Hoathly and Hellingly)
*Johanna Howell (Con) (Crowborough North and Jarvis Brook)
Philip Lunn (Con) (Crowborough South and St. John’s)
*Georgia Taylor (Green Party) (Forest Row and Groombridge)
Steve Murphy (Lib Dem) (Hailsham Market)
Gerard Fox (Con) (Hailsham New Town)
*Anne Cross (Green Party) (Heathfield and Mayfield) – elected in by-election (27.07.2023)
Roy Galley (Con) (Maresfield and Buxted)
Tom Liddiard (Con) (Pevensey and Stone Cross)
Daniel Shing (Independent Democrats, elected as Independent) (Polegate and Watermill)
*Claire Dowling (Con) (Uckfield North)
Chris Dowling (Con) (Uckfield South with Framfield)
Bob Bowdler (Con) (Wealden East)
Bob Standley (Con) (Wealden North East)
Stephen Shing (Independent Democrats, elected as Independent) (Willingdon and South Downs)

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Council elected in 2021 (50): 27 Con, 11 LD, 5 Lab, 4 Green, 3 Ind
Current council (50): 24 Con, 12 LD, 5 Green, 5 Lab, 2 Ind, 2 Independent Democrats

The Ind in Bexhill North was elected as Con.

Byelections:
2023, Jul. Heathfield & Mayfield (Wealden) - Green gain from Con by 23%
2023, Aug. Meads (Eastbourne) - LD gain from Con by 8.8%.

By district (I've tried to give info on councillor numbers, close wards, and any notable district results)

Eastbourne - 7 (6) LD, 2 (3) Con.

Hastings - 4 Con, 3 Lab, 1 Green
Old Hastings & Tresell - Green gain from Lab by 3.8%.

In the 2024 district elections, Greens also won the underlying wards for Central St Leonards & Gensing (Lab), Braybrooke & Castle (Lab), and Baird & Ore (Con).
Lab also won the underlying wards for Maze Hill & West St Leonards (Con), and St Helens & Silverhill (Con).

Lewes - 3 LD, 2 Con, 2 Green, 2 Lab
Chailey - Con hold by 1.2% over Green
Newhaven & Bishopstone - LD hold by 0.5% over Con
Peacehaven - Lab gain by 1.9% from Con
Telscombe - Lab gain by 2.3% from Con

In the 2023 district elections, Green also won the underlying wards for Chailey (Con), and Seaford North (Con).

Rother - 7 Con, 1 LD, 1 Ind
Bexhill East - Ind hold by 0.7% over Con
Bexhill West - Con gain by 8.4% from Ind

In the 2023 district elections LD came top (split wards) in the underlying wards for Rother North West (Con), and the Conservatives did not win any seats in the Bexhill wards (seats taken in all directions by Green, Lab, LD, Ind, different Ind), which means they lot Bexhills North (Con), South (Con), West (Con).

Wealden - 10 (11) Con, 2 Ind, 1 LD, 1 (2) Green
Crowborough North & Jarvis Brook - Con hold by 1.1% over LD
Wealden East - Con hold by 6.4% over Green

In the 2023 district elections Green won the underlying wards for Forest Row & Groombridge (Con), and Maresfield & Buxted (Con). LD won the underlying wards in Crowborough North & Jarvis Brook. Con lost all the underlying wards in Crowborough South & St Johns, and Wealden East, both to combinations of Green and LD, and Uckfield North to Lab and LD.

Candidate totals: 50 Con, 45 Lab, 43 LD, 39 Green, 8 UKIP, 4 Reform UK, 2 Heritage, 1 SDP, 1 Democratic Network, 14 Ind

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John Ungar in Eastbourne - now there is a name from the past. He was a narrowly defeated (by the Tories) Liberal candidate for Regency ward in the 1983 Brighton council elections, just before the major surge to Labour which took place a year afterwards, culminating in Labour winning the ward in an early 1985 by-election. I don't think he's alone amongst the leading Brighton Liberals of the day in subsequently moving to Eastbourne.