2014 Islington London Borough Council election

2014 Islington Council election

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All 48 council seats
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Green Liberal Democrats Last election 35 seats, 39.5% 0 seats, 12.7% 13 seats, 31.6% Seats won 47 1 0 Seat change 12 1 13 Popular vote 93,416 32,156 9,191 Percentage 55.9% 19.3% 14.9% Swing 16.4% 6.6% 16.7%
Map of the results of the 2014 Islington council election. Greens in green and Labour in red.
Council control before election Labour Subsequent Council control Labour

The 2014 Islington Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Islington Borough Council in London, England. ^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

The final result was 47 seats for the Labour Party and 1 seat for the Green Party of England and Wales. The Labour Party received 56 per cent of the vote, its highest total in Islington since 1974. The Liberal Democrats lost all its seats despite having controlled the Council as a minority administration from 2006–2010. ^[2]

Election result

Islington Council Election Result 2014 ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	47	12	0	+12	97.9	55.9	93,416	+16.4
	Green	1	1	0	+1	2.1	19.3	32,156	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	13	−13	0.0	14.6	24,372	−17.0
	Conservative	0	0	0	0	0.0	9.4	15,681	−6.3
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.6	1,049	+0.5
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.4	259	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	90	N/A

Ward results

Barnsbury ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Murray	2,110
	Labour	Jilani Chowdhury	1,948
	Labour	Mouna Hamitouche	1,910
	Conservative	Stuart Cullen	710
	Conservative	Joseph Eldridge	604
	Conservative	Alicia Ramona Simms	594
	Green	Harry Hicks	467
	Green	Rosie Magudia	447
	Liberal Democrats	David John Christmas	400
	Green	Matthew Parsons	327
	Liberal Democrats	Kristina Lewis	309
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Willoughby	286
	TUSC	Lesley Woodburn	100
Turnout			3,614	39.8	−21.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Bunhill ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Troy Gallagher	1,762
	Labour	Claudia Webbe	1,663
	Labour	Robert Khan	1,541
	Conservative	Craig John Francis Barber	663
	Conservative	Flora Nancy Joyce Plumstead Coleman	618
	Conservative	Orson Francescone	570
	UKIP	Peter Spencer Muswell	525
	Green	Tom Bowker	455
	Green	Leigh Elston	429
	Green	Ben Hickey	425
	Liberal Democrats	Joseph Russell Trotter	352
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Charles Reeves Hall	321
	Liberal Democrats	Kelly Ann-Marie Wright	308
Turnout			3,535	33.8	−21.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Caledonian ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Convery	2,372
	Labour	Rupert Perry	1,954
	Labour	Una O'Halloran	1,907
	Green	Alex Gordon	670
	Green	Sarah Marks	585
	Conservative	Stuart Cottis	492
	Green	Ozoda Muminova	441
	Conservative	Duncan Webster	433
	Conservative	Richard Jonathan Pinder	417
	Liberal Democrats	Iolanda Costide	382
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Johnson	320
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Ridzuan-Allen	252
Turnout			3,589	36.5	−23.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Canonbury ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander Diner	1,569
	Labour	Clare Jeapes	1,556
	Labour	Nicholas Wayne	1,413
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Cox	805
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Smith	716
	Liberal Democrats	Mihir Magudia	613
	Conservative	Amo Kalar	467
	Green	Lilli Geissendorfer	464
	Green	Georgina Turner	464
	Conservative	Nigel William Roland Watts	441
	Conservative	Jana Toms Hrnciarova	418
	Green	Richard Halvorsen	391
Turnout			3,364	37.1	−27.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Clerkenwell ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Raphael Andrews	1,553
	Labour	Alice Donovan	1,395
	Labour	James Court	1,385
	Liberal Democrats	Tahmid Rahman Chowdhury	690
	Liberal Democrats	James Robert Williamson	680
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Shan Muhammed	561
	Green	Rachel Darwazeh	599
	Conservative	Pauline Phyllis Maude Tucker	599
	Conservative	Mark Lim	485
	Green	James Humphreys	455
	Green	Angela Joan Thomson	394
Turnout			3,183	37.7	−20.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Finsbury Park ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gary Heather	2,648
	Labour	Mick O'Sullivan	2,481
	Labour	Asima Shaikh	2,408
	Green	Nicola Baird	948
	Green	Robin Latimer	781
	Green	Fran Boait	771
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Rosalinde Margaret Habermann	400
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Michael Fletcher	360
	Liberal Democrats	Hatty Richmond	318
Turnout			3,993	37.1	−19.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Highbury East ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Osh Gantly	1,514
	Labour	Aysegul Erdogan	1,430
	Green	Caroline Russell	1,214
	Labour	Muhammed Kalaam	1,206
	Liberal Democrats	Julie Horten	1,204
	Liberal Democrats	Terry Stacy	1,185
	Liberal Democrats	John Gilbert	1,138
	Green	Charlie Kiss	867
	Green	Susanna Rustin	721
	Conservative	Connor Alan Coleman	411
	Conservative	Christopher John Harries Williams	375
	UKIP	Greg Clough	247
Turnout			4,051	44.2	−23.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Green gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Highbury West ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Theresa Debono	2,680
	Labour	Richard Greening	2,549
	Labour	Andy Hull	2,336
	Green	Rosalind Sharpe	1,074
	Green	Ernestas Jegorovas	1,046
	Green	Andrew Mayer	1,011
	Conservative	Alex Burghart	869
	Conservative	James Rooke	653
	Conservative	Simon Philip	551
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Cooke	439
	Liberal Democrats	Philip David Middleton	354
	Liberal Democrats	Gabby Mann	345
Turnout			4,749	39.7	−24.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hillrise ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Marian Spall	2,065
	Labour	Michelline Ngongo	1,930
	Labour	David Poyser	1,925
	Liberal Democrats	Lorraine Constantinou	959
	Liberal Democrats	Carl Quilliam	856
	Liberal Democrats	Victor Kaufman	761
	Green	Jayne Forbes	727
	Green	Mary Adshead	711
	Green	Alex Rendall	530
Turnout			3,708	41.9	−21.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Holloway ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Smith	2,470
	Labour	Rakhia Ismail	2,266
	Labour	Diarmaid Ward	2,222
	Green	Jenni Chan	996
	Green	Claire Poyner	905
	Green	Ciaran Whitehead	837
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Martin Smith	564
	Liberal Democrats	Margot Dunn	564
	Liberal Democrats	David John Kelly	519
Turnout			4,135	36.9	−22.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Junction ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Janet Burgess	2,228
	Labour	Kaya Makarau-Schwartz	1,938
	Labour	Tim Nicholls	1,779
	Green	Jill Renwick	720
	Green	Mick Holloway	717
	Green	Daniel Hudson	621
	Conservative	Michael Collins	361
	Liberal Democrats	Stefan Antoni Kasprzyk	333
	Conservative	Riddhi Bhalla	320
	Conservative	Oliver Peter Jonathan	314
	Liberal Democrats	Giorgia Gamba	297
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Savvides	245
	Socialist (GB)	Bill Martin	90
Turnout			3,498	38.4	−25.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Mildmay ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Caluori	2,041
	Labour	Jenny Kay	2,020
	Labour	Olly Parker	1,898
	Green	Jon Nott	613
	Green	Malcolm Powell	575
	Green	Dudley Ross	570
	Conservative	Benjamin Rhys Davies	366
	Liberal Democrats	Julie Whittaker	354
	Conservative	Alexandra Catherine Eldridge	343
	Liberal Democrats	Turhan Ozen	279
	UKIP	Angus Small	277
	Conservative	Martin Roland Cameron Moyes	265
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Symes	255
	TUSC	Omar Esen	159
Turnout			3,575	38.7	−21.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St George's ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kat Fletcher	2,402
	Labour	Satnam Gill	2,121
	Labour	Nick Ward	1,975
	Liberal Democrats	Tracy Allison Ismail	984
	Green	Deborah Maby	814
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Thomas Gregory	743
	Green	Bernadette Wren	721
	Liberal Democrats	Alice Bridget Thomas	719
	Green	Benali Hamdache	683
Turnout			3,929	42.1	−21.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

St Mary's ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Picknell	1,719
	Labour	Gary Poole	1,581
	Labour	Nurullah Turan	1,460
	Green	Caroline Allen	729
	Conservative	Thomas Robert Matthew Duke	559
	Conservative	Mags Joseph	554
	Conservative	Victoria Anne Lim	528
	Green	Sydney Leaman	498
	Green	Adrian Williams	490
	Liberal Democrats	Rosie Day	433
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Mark Horsley Heseltine	353
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Manners	289
Turnout			3,259	36.3	−27.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

St Peter's ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Klute	2,117
	Labour	Gary Doolan	2,088
	Labour	Alice Perry	2,085
	Conservative	Evan James Williams	724
	Conservative	Oriel Somerset Hutchinson	709
	Conservative	Patricia Jane Napier	708
	Green	Michael Coffey	674
	Green	Veronica Pasteur	453
	Green	Christian Spurrier	418
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Coventry	414
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Malone	389
	Liberal Democrats	David Sant	320
Turnout			3,525	38.2	−25.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Tollington ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Watts	2,355
	Labour	Flora Williamson	2,320
	Labour	Jean-Roger Kaseki	2,302
	Green	Ann Boater	1,006
	Green	Rosie Green	951
	Green	Stephen Horne	752
	Liberal Democrats	Ruth Polling	400
	Liberal Democrats	George Allan	393
	Liberal Democrats	David Thorpe	313
Turnout			3,525	38.2	−22.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "England council results" . Retrieved 23 May 2014.
2. "Islington Labour Leader to be inclusive after landslide victory at elections". Islington Gazette . 26 August 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
3. "Islington council results". Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
4. "English Elections :: Islington 2014 - election results". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.