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Eastleigh is a very unusual council - solidly Lib Dem (the local paper even used "one party state"
. Labour has no councillors, the Tories are now down to one - lost one this time - and there are 4 independents (centred around the area the Lib Dems wanted to develop more). And there are 34 Lib Dems.
But I looked at the 2018 and 2022 votes where the Tory lost - an area you might say is typical Home Counties, and often returned Tories. In 2018, the Tory got about 20% more votes than the Lib Dem; this time, the Lib Dem got about 50% more than the Tory. So that's a notable change.
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