Swindon election: Conservatives will stay in power with council majority after Labour losses THE Conservatives have won a majority in Swindon s Borough Council and will keep control of the local authority. Labour’s hopes of maintaining their seats in the Euclid Street chamber, bolstered by holds in Old Town, Mannington & Western and Gorsehill & Pinehurst were crushed in the third tranche of wards counted. Three ‘red wall’ seats all fell to the Conservatives. Rodbourne Cheney, Penhill and Upper Stratton and even Central Ward were taken by the Tories. With the Conservative hold in Covingham and Dorcan it means party held on to power in the chamber and started building a really big majority.