2015 North Somerset Council election
North Somerset unitary council is elected every four years, with fifty councillors to be elected. Since the first election to the unitary authority in 1995, the council has either been under Conservative party control, or no party has held a majority. The Conservatives gained a majority at the 2007 election and have retained control since then. At the 2015 election, the outcome was as follows:
Ward results
An asterisk * indicates an incumbent seeking re-election.
Backwell
In the 2011 election Karen Barclay won the seat as an Independent but switched to Conservative
Congresbury
Pill
Portishead East
At the previous election Arthur Terry won the old single member ward of Portishead East for the Conservatives but stood as an Independent in 2015. David Pashley was the sitting councillor for the old Portishead Coastal ward.
Weston-Super-Mare Central
Robert Payne was elected as a councillor for the old Weston-Super-Mare West at the 2011 election.
Weston-Super-Mare Winterstoke
Wrington
Annabel Tall had been elected as a Conservative councillor for the Yatton ward in the 2011 election.