Elections to Folkestone & Hythe District Council were held on 2 May 2019.
Summary
Election result
Ward results Broadmead
Cheriton
East Folkestone
Dylan Jeffrey stood as a Labour candidate in 2015, and Carol Sacre stood as a UKIP candidate.
Folkestone Central
David Horton stood as a Green candidate in 2015.
Folkestone Harbour
Ray Field stood as a TUSC candidate in 2015, and Mary Lawes stood as a UKIP candidate.
Hythe
Hythe Rural
New Romney
North Downs East
North Downs West
Sandgate and West Folkestone
Romney Marsh
Walland and Denge Marsh
Changes 2019–2023 No by-elections were held on Folkestone and Hythe District Council between the 2019 and 2023 ordinary elections. Several councillors changed party affiliation during the term: Labour councillor Ray Field (Folkestone Harbour) was suspended from the Labour Party and removed from the local Labour group in February 2020 after joining Conservative leader David Monk's power-sharing cabinet; he continued to sit as an independent. Conservative councillor Peter Gane (Cheriton) joined the Liberal Democrats in June 2022, having been deselected as a Conservative candidate after repeatedly voting against the party line. Conservative councillor Philip Martin (North Downs East) left the party and stood for re-election in 2023 as an independent, a move outgoing council leader David Monk blamed in part for the Conservatives' losses in that ward.
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