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Hampshire County Council (HCC) is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire in England. The council was created in 1889. The county council provides county-level services to eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.
The 2025 Hampshire County Council election is due to take place on 1 May 2025 to elect members to Hampshire County Council in Hampshire, England. [1] All 78 seats will be elected. This will be on the same day as other local elections .
The whole Lymington and Pennington administrative area can elect one County Councillor to Hampshire County Council. For New Forest District Council elections (as well as local parish elections), Lymington is split into Lymington Town and Buckland such that there are three wards in total:
The county of Hants was established June 17, 1781, on territory taken from Kings County and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. [3] The name Hants is a long-standing abbreviation for the English county of Hampshire, from the Old English name Hantescire.
Hampshire County Council offices and Jubilee Fountain The coat of arms of Hampshire County Council With the exceptions of the unitary authorities of Portsmouth and Southampton, Hampshire is governed by Hampshire County Council based at Castle Hill in Winchester, with eleven non-metropolitan districts beneath it and, for the majority of the ...
Hampshire County Council in England is elected every four years. Since the boundary changes in 2005, 78 councillors have been elected from 75 wards , with further boundary changes in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The council is based at Appletree Court on Beaulieu Road in Lyndhurst. The oldest part of the building was originally a large house, which was purchased in 1954 to become the offices of the New Forest Rural District Council. The building has been substantially extended since becoming council offices. [26] [27]
Elections to Hampshire County Council took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections. [1] All 78 seats were up for election, with each ward returning either one or two councillors by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.