Elections to Hampshire County Council took place on 12 April 1973 as part of the 1973 United Kingdom local elections. All 97 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. These were the first to be held after the Local Government Act 1972, which reformed local councils and their boundaries. The election saw the Conservatives form a majority administration with 55 seats.
Summary
Election result
Results by ward Basingstoke and Deane Basingstoke East
Basingstoke North
Basingstoke West
Candover
Kingsclere & Whitchurch No. 1
Kingsclere & Whitchurch No. 2
Loddon
East Hampshire Alton
Bramshott
Catherington
Headley
Medstead & Selborne
Petersfield
Eastleigh Eastleigh East
Eastleigh North
Eastleigh South
Fareham Fareham East
Fareham North East
Fareham South West
Fareham Titchfield
Fareham West
Gosport Gosport Alverstoke
Gosport Elson
Gosport Hardway
Gosport Leesland
Gosport Town
Hart Fleet
Hartley Wintney
Odiham
Yateley & Hawley
Havant Battins & Bondfield
Bedhampton & Barncroft
Hart Plain & Cowplain
Havant & Warblington
Hayling
Purbrook & Waterloo
Stockheath & Leigh Park
New Forest Brockenhurst
Fawley
Hythe
Lymington Central
Lymington East
Lymington West
Lyndhurst
Ringwood & Fordingbridge No. 1
Ringwood & Fordingbridge No. 2
Totton
Portsmouth Buckland
Cosham
Farlington
Fratton
Havelock
Highland
Kingston
Meredith
North End
Paulsgrove
Portsmouth No. 1
St. Jude
St. Simon
St. Thomas
Rushmoor Aldershot East
Aldershot West
Farnborough East
Farnborough West
Southampton Southampton No. 1
Southampton No. 2
Banister
Bassett
Bitterne
Coxford
Harefield
Millbrook
Pear Tree and Bitterne
Portswood
Redbridge
Shirley
Sholing
St. Denys and Bitterne
Swaythling
Woolston
Test Valley Andover North
Andover Rural
Andover South
Baddesley
Romsey
Stockbridge
Winchester Alresford
Bishops Waltham & Droxford
Hound
Micheldever
St. Bartholomew, St. Johns & St. Michael
St Paul & St Thomas
Winchester Rural No. 4
Winchester Rural No. 5
Wickham
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