Gedling Borough Council election, 2015

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All 41 seats to Gedling Borough Council
21 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Seats before	31	15	3
Seats won	25	15	1
Seat change	-6	0	-2
Popular vote	51,256	48,067	7,687
Percentage	39.2%	36.8%	5.9%
Swing	-7.5%	-1.1%	-5.4%

The 2015 Gedling Borough Council election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect all members of Gedling Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, England as part of the English local elections coinciding with the 2015 General Election. Each councillor serves a four-year term of office.

Following Boundary Commission recommendations boundary change took place for this election to provide for 19 wards, many of which are two or three-member, thus electing 41 councillors.

Labour Party candidates won a majority, exceeding the 21 member threshold needed to reach majority party status, formerly having 64% of councillors. The Conservative group was formerly the opposition party on the council, holding 15 seats out of 50 on the larger council between 2011 and 2015. The remainder of councillors comprised Liberal Democrat members, formerly holding 3 seats on the council from 2011 to 2015, returned 1 of the council's 41 councillors.

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