BASING

READ, Patricia Amelia (Liberal Democrat) - 1,675

GODESEN, Sven Howard (Conservative) - 1,363

Electorate - 6,322 Turnout - 48 per cent

SITTING councillor Patricia Read, wife of Basing ward councillor Alan Read, was re-elected after a tightly-fought contest.

BAUGHURST

ALLEN, Sheila Mary (Conservative) - 558

ELKINS, Christina Elisabeth (Liberal Democrat) - 281

Electorate - 1,911 Turnout - 44 per cent

SITTING councillor Sheila Allen was safely returned as the representative for Baughurst in last Thursday's local election.

BRIGHTON HILL NORTH

GURDEN, Brian Thomas (Liberal Democrat) - 644

MCINTYRE-STEWART, Stephen David (Conservative) - 378

READER, Carl William (Labour) - 154

Electorate - 3,554 Turnout - 33 per cent

LIBERAL Democrat group leader and deputy council leader Brian Gurden was re-elected in a contest that included the Labour candidate and former Conservative councillor Carl Reader.

Mr Gurden said he was pleased to have increased his personal vote since the election of 2002.

He said: "Maybe there is some justice in the world after all. It has been a somewhat tricky campaign. People were talking about Iraq, immigration, benefit fraud and the European election and so it was quite diverse."

BRIGHTON HILL SOUTH

HARKESS, Kevin Martin Christopher (Liberal Democrat) - 548

LONIE, Pamela Betty (Labour) - 408

CLEWER, Richard John (Conservative) - 311

Electorate - 3,037 Turnout - 32 per cent

THE Liberal Democrats took Brighton Hill South, which had been held by the Labour Party's Tommy Millar. Mr Millar stood down at this year's election and his replacement Pam Lonie could not hold on to his slim six-vote margin of victory from 2002.

Mr Harkess was delighted by the reverse and said that local issues had played an important role in his victory.

He said: "I have lived in Brighton Hill for 17 years and I have been involved in lots of local issues, like the safer schools routes and the Harrow Way crossing.

"It's basically lots of little local issues and the hard work we have done locally with a lot of support from the Liberal Democrat team."

BUCKSKIN

JONES, Antony Robert (Labour) - 384

COHEN, Michael (Conservative) - 251

BLACKMORE-SQUIRES, Roger Edwin (Ted), (Independent) - 152

Electorate - 3,173 Turnout - 25 per cent

SITTING Labour councillor Tony Jones was re-elected with reduced majority in a ward where "Save Manydown" campaigner Ted Blackmore-Squires chose to stand as a candidate against the major housing development planned for west of Basingstoke.

Mr Jones, who was first elected in 1991, said he was pleased with the result because, although his vote was down, he had not had to face an independent candidate before.

Mr Blackmore-Squires said he was happy to have mobilised the Save Manydown vote. "If I had stood in Winklebury, I would have split the vote," he said.

BURGHCLERE

HEWITT, Andrew Peter (Conservative) - 502

DAVIES, Anthony Laing (Liberal Democrat) - 386

Electorate - 1962 Turnout - 46 per cent

CONSERVATIVE Andrew Hewitt elected in a ward where Liberal Democrats markedly increased their vote after putting in a lot of effort.

Until this year, the ward was represented by John Clegg, the one-time Conservative councillor-turned-non-aligned independent who was disqualified this year after failing to attend sufficient council meetings.

CALLEVA

TUCKER, Marilyn Jane (Conservative) - 1,003

BARNARD, Roger Leslie (Liberal Democrat) - 342

PRICE, Terence Brewer (Labour) - 260

Electorate - 4,313 Turnout - 38 per cent

MARILYN Tucker comfortably held Calleva for the Conservatives, breaking the 1,000 votes mark.

Mrs Tucker said that she was delighted by the result and that she would continue to fight for more low-cost housing in the ward and to improve the traffic problems in Calleva.

CHINEHAM

STILL, Elaine Francis (Conservative) - 1,277

DAY, Stephen Richard (Liberal Democrat) - 471

NICHOLAS, Jane Lesley (Labour) - 154

Electorate - 5,121 Turnout 37 per cent

THE Conservatives easily held on to Chineham by polling more than twice the number of votes of the two other parties combined.

The re-elected Elaine Still said: "I am very happy - it's great. I have been in for two years and I feel that I have put in a lot of effort and hard work.

"I'll now carry on working for the residents of Chineham."

EASTROP

SHAW, Erica Maria (Liberal Democrat) - 673

COLLINS, Ronald Bertram (Conservative) - 441

COURTENAY, Pauline Mary (Labour) - 164

Electorate - 3,112 Turnout - 41 per cent

LIBERAL Democrat Erica Shaw, wife of Brookvale Liberal Democrat John Shaw, was re-elected.

Mrs Shaw said: "I'm delighted to have increased my share of the vote after the Tories made a real effort.

"People were talking about parking and planning in the town centre."

HATCH WARREN AND BEGGARWOOD

PUTTY, Dan (Conservative) - 1,371

CRAWFORD, Jennifer Anne (Liberal Democrat) 710

Electorate - 6,265 Turnout - 33 per cent

CONSERVATIVE councillor Dan Putty said he was excited to be re-elected after a contest that generated accusations of dirty tricks.

He said: "I was not worried. I have been representing Hatch Warren for 10 years."

HIGHCLERE AND BOURNE

MITCHELL, John Horatio (Horace) (Conservative) - 736

WATTS, Keith Ernest Vincent (Liberal Democrat) - 360

Electorate - 2,317 Turnout - 47 per cent

HORACE Mitchell was delighted to have retained Highclere and Bourne for the Conservative Party.

Mr Mitchell said: "I'm a new candidate and Keith Watts has stood before, so it's very good to have won."

Mr Mitchell stood for the Conservatives after Timothy Jardine, the previous councillor, moved away from the area.

KEMPSHOTT

BURGESS, Rita Jean (Conservative) - 1,750

DAVEY, Richard Arthur (Labour) - 685

Electorate - 6,077 Turnout - 41 per cent

THE Conservatives held on to the safe seat of Kempshott, with sitting councillor Rita Burgess re-elected with a larger vote than 2002, when three out of eight candidates were elected.