Conservatives Conservatives The 2018 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018, to elect members of Swindon Borough Council in England.

The Conservatives held on to their majority on the council but it was lowered to one after losing a councillor to the Liberal Democrats in Wroughton & Wichelstowe.

[1] Labour had had high hopes of winning control of the council, and the Party's leader Jeremy Corbyn had visited Swindon on five occasions during the local election campaign.

[2] The BBC's West of England politics editor Paul Barltrop felt Labour's failure to take the council would be more than disappointing to party members, noting that Swindon tends to give an idea of what will happen at the next general election.

[2] Swindon was one of the boroughs subject to a trial of voter ID restrictions[3] requiring the production of polling cards.