page_title: 2011 Guildford Borough Council election
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 Guildford Borough Council election / Summary
caption_attribution_description: 2011 Guildford Borough Council election results map.
context_page_description: The 2011 council elections in Guildford saw the Conservatives retain control over Guildford Borough Council with an increased majority of 20 seats. Full results for each ward can be found at Guildford Council election, full results, 2011.
context_section_description: Going into the 2011 council election the net position was as follows.
  After the election the position was as follows.
  the Liberal Democrats lost 9 seats reducing their representation from 21 councillors to 12.  Following the 2011 election, the Liberal Democrats held more seats than any other party in the west and north of Guildford town, but were largely wiped out in other areas of Guildford borough. With the exception of Effingham, a rural ward towards the east of the borough, all Liberal Democrat councillors elected in 2011 represented wards in the west and north part of Guildford town itself;
  the Liberal Democrats went into the election exclusively representing 8 wards.  After the 2011 elections, the Liberal Democrats exclusively represented only 3 wards: Effingham, Friary & St Nicolas and Stoughton.
  the Conservatives gained 7 seats in the 2011 elections, all at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.  This meant that the Conservatives won 34 of the 48 seats on Guildford council and had a majority over all other parties of 20 seats.  Large Conservative majorities on Guildford Borough Council had been common during the 1970s and 1980s elections, however prior to the 2011 election they had not occurred since then. The 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007 full council elections in Guildford had produced either hung councils or small majorities, the largest of which at the time was 4 seats;
  the Conservative gains were Worplesdon (3 seats); Burpham (2 seats); Onslow (1 of the 3 seats the Liberal Democrats held there) and Holy Trinity (the one remaining seat the Liberal Democrats held there).
  after a four-year absence Labour returned to Guildford Borough Council.  Labour won 2 seats, one in Westborough ward and one in Stoke ward, both at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.  This partly reversed a trend which had seen the Liberal Democrats take all the seats in the Westborough ward from Labour in the 2003 election and all the seats in Stoke ward from Labour in the 2007 election;
  three wards were split after the election, that is they were represented by councillors of more than one party.  These were Onslow (split 1Con: 2LibD); Stoke (split 1 Lab: 1LibD) and Westborough (split 1Lab: 2LibD)
caption: 2011 election Guildford Borough Council
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