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![]() Results of the 2018 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2018 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in England. [1] The election was held on the same day as other local elections in England. While Kensington and Chelsea is usually regarded as a Conservative stronghold, there was media speculation that Labour could win control of the council in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. [2] [3] However the Conservatives maintained control, losing just one Councillor, in St. Helen's Ward, winning 36 seats to Labour's 13. [3]
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Conservative | 36 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 72.0 | 51.4 | 51,106 | -6.4 | |
Labour | 13 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 26.0 | 33.0 | 32,816 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 0 | 0 | ±0 | 2.0 | 12.4 | 12,321 | +3.8 | |
Advance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 2,357 | New | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 446 | -1.0 | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 318 | -0.2 | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 58 | -2.8 | |
Democrats and Veterans | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27 | New |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sarah Addenbrooke | 1,389 | 66.2 | −6.8 | |
Conservative | Anne Cyron | 1,309 | 62.4 | −6.1 | |
Conservative | James Husband* | 1,296 | 61.7 | −6.6 | |
Labour | Manju Gregory | 368 | 17.5 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Sharda Rozena | 356 | 17.0 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ciara Brown | 338 | 16.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Stuart Shapro | 318 | 15.2 | +3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Good | 307 | 14.6 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Owen | 299 | 14.2 | +4.9 | |
Advance | Britta Scupin Rogers | 101 | 4.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Walaa Idris | 1,342 | 70.5 | −7.5 | |
Conservative | Mary Weale* | 1,324 | 69.6 | +0.7 | |
Conservative | Sophia McVeigh | 1,322 | 69.5 | −1.3 | |
Labour | David Kear | 290 | 15.2 | +0.9 | |
Labour | John Morley | 286 | 15.0 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Marian Skeen | 279 | 14.7 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Moya Denman | 233 | 12.2 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | George Herford | 163 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Woodthorpe-Browne | 157 | 8.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Elizabeth De Stanford Wallitt | 72 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Catherine Faulks* | 1,483 | 63.5 | −8.4 | |
Conservative | Robert Freeman* | 1,481 | 63.4 | −6.0 | |
Conservative | Ian Wason | 1,398 | 59.8 | −15.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Priscilla Congreve | 352 | 15.1 | −0.4 | |
Labour | Tabatha Batra Vaughan | 345 | 14.8 | −1.9 | |
Labour | Frank Kovacs | 309 | 13.2 | +1.6 | |
Labour | Ian Trewin | 304 | 13.0 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Walker | 304 | 13.0 | N/A | |
Advance | Sonia Mihelic | 289 | 12.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Burnett-Hall | 260 | 11.1 | N/A | |
Advance | Peter Marshall | 213 | 9.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Adrian Berrill-Cox | 1,196 | 48.4 | ||
Conservative | Alison Jackson | 1,170 | 47.3 | ||
Conservative | Gerard Hargreaves | 1,164 | 47.1 | ||
Labour | Lorna Sherlock | 911 | 36.9 | ||
Labour | Kasim Ali | 909 | 36.8 | ||
Labour | Sofiane Saidoune | 903 | 36.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Panayiotis Vardakis | 240 | 9.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Josie Mayers | 204 | 8.3 | ||
Advance | Eryl Humphrey Jones | 188 | 7.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Richard Braine | 62 | 2.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Sophie Braine | 62 | 2.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Alasdair Seton-Marsden | 51 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Monica Press* | 1,269 | 54.7 | +15.0 | |
Labour | Nadia Nail | 1,200 | 51.7 | +12.2 | |
Labour | Ian Henderson | 1,170 | 50.4 | +15.9 | |
Conservative | Christopher Knight | 645 | 27.8 | +3.7 | |
Conservative | Carole Noble | 588 | 25.3 | +1.3 | |
Conservative | Chris Spring | 557 | 24.0 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nicola Kerr | 287 | 12.4 | −12.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susanna Chenery | 268 | 11.6 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Warrack | 220 | 9.5 | −0.5 | |
Advance | Nadia Boujjettef | 206 | 8.9 | N/A | |
Advance | Claire Van Helfteren | 165 | 7.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Janet Evans | 1,373 | 69.0 | −2.0 | |
Conservative | Greg Hammond | 1,354 | 68.1 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | Quentin Marshall* | 1,325 | 66.6 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlie Goodman | 283 | 14.2 | +1.9 | |
Labour | Rene Gimpel | 252 | 12.7 | −3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Norma Peacock | 252 | 12.7 | −1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Verboven | 242 | 12.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Luke Francis | 233 | 11.7 | −2.6 | |
Labour | Angharad Monk | 212 | 10.7 | −3.0 | |
Advance | Amir Tayebi | 127 | 6.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Kyle Farren | 58 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Pat Healy* | 1,258 | 73.7 | +11.2 | |
Labour | Robert Thompson* | 1,119 | 65.5 | +13.4 | |
Conservative | Marina Palmer | 393 | 23.0 | +2.5 | |
Conservative | Dougal Steward | 315 | 18.4 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jacqueline Taylor | 137 | 8.0 | +1.3 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Linda Wade* | 1,073 | 45.3 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | Malcolm Spalding* | 913 | 38.6 | −5.7 | |
Conservative | Hamish Adourian | 764 | 32.3 | −12.1 | |
Conservative | Lloyd North | 756 | 31.9 | −7.2 | |
Labour | Samantha Batra | 610 | 25.8 | +7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Harry Baden-Powell | 609 | 25.7 | +5.6 | |
Labour | Bruno Diantantou | 598 | 25.3 | +10.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Carmel McLoughlin | 568 | 24.0 | +4.3 | |
Labour | Danny Sweeney | 483 | 20.4 | +6.1 | |
Green | Erwin Schaefer | 223 | 9.4 | −6.0 | |
UKIP | Callum Dorrington Hutton | 51 | 2.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Mike Jones | 20 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Emma Dent Coad* | 1,585 | 77.5 | +8.0 | |
Labour | Pat Mason* | 1,503 | 73.5 | +4.4 | |
Labour | Sina Lari | 1,409 | 68.9 | +6.8 | |
Conservative | Will Mumby | 288 | 14.1 | −0.4 | |
Conservative | Georgina Stewart | 267 | 13.0 | −0.7 | |
Conservative | David Mytton | 243 | 11.9 | −1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Frances Owen | 161 | 7.9 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andre Petrolo | 125 | 6.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Rosemary Somers | 109 | 5.3 | +1.5 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Aarien Areti | 1,203 | 52.8 | −15.1 | |
Conservative | Charles O'Connor | 1,191 | 52.3 | −10.3 | |
Conservative | Johnny Thalassites | 1,142 | 50.1 | −12.0 | |
Labour | Lorna Kelly | 760 | 33.4 | +11.1 | |
Labour | Roberto Stasi | 727 | 31.9 | +11.6 | |
Labour | Nathaniel McBride | 685 | 30.1 | +10.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Dominque Lambert | 304 | 13.3 | −1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hugh Lalor | 253 | 11.1 | −3.5 | |
Advance | Deepali Nangia | 208 | 9.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Lindsay* | 1,151 | 58.8 | −7.6 | |
Conservative | Julie Mills* | 1,126 | 57.5 | −9.9 | |
Labour | Mona Adam | 467 | 23.8 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Jan Sweeney | 433 | 22.1 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Vivienne Shirley | 234 | 11.9 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Blanche Girouard | 204 | 10.4 | +1.2 | |
Advance | Valerie John-Baptiste | 176 | 9.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Judith Blakeman* | 1,658 | 72.3 | +2.2 | |
Labour | Robert Atkinson* | 1,562 | 68.1 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Marwan Elnaghi | 1,544 | 67.3 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Clarissa Agnew | 397 | 17.3 | −7.3 | |
Conservative | Daniel Lewis | 387 | 16.9 | −5.0 | |
Conservative | Cordelia Evans | 373 | 16.3 | −4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lucy Chenery | 211 | 9.2 | N/A | |
Advance | Melvyn Akins | 171 | 7.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | William Somers | 116 | 5.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laura Round | 822 | 53.7 | −10.9 | |
Conservative | Dori Schmetterling | 777 | 50.8 | −9.3 | |
Labour | Annabelle Giles Louvros | 438 | 28.6 | +5.9 | |
Labour | Henry Peterson | 381 | 24.9 | +5.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Fox | 257 | 16.8 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Lomas | 196 | 12.8 | +2.4 | |
Advance | Ritika Handa | 123 | 8.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
In May 2019, Palmer was expelled from the Conservatives, he now sits as an Independent. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Max Chauhan | 1,126 | 67.7 | −7.6 | |
Conservative | Matthew Palmer* | 1,110 | 66.7 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | Max Woodger | 1,105 | 66.4 | −6.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jill Manasseh | 297 | 17.9 | +4.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sheila McGuirk | 278 | 16.7 | +5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Noel McNamara | 243 | 14.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Carmen Callil | 235 | 14.1 | +1.1 | |
Labour | Emma Southby | 224 | 13.5 | +2.2 | |
Labour | Soonu Engineer | 210 | 12.6 | +2.5 | |
Democrats and Veterans | Ralph Hancock | 27 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Bennett | 1,317 | 62.4 | −3.2 | |
Conservative | Marie-Therese Rossi* | 1,282 | 60.8 | −3.6 | |
Conservative | Charles Williams* | 1,195 | 56.6 | −4.6 | |
Labour | Isabel Atkinson | 411 | 19.5 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Meg McDonald | 348 | 16.5 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Mike Vessey | 346 | 16.4 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Katerina Porter | 324 | 15.4 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Virginia Morck | 319 | 15.1 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Barbara Woodthorpe-Browne | 272 | 12.9 | N/A | |
Advance | Theo Goodliffe | 173 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Elizabeth Campbell* | 1,907 | 74.8 | −0.5 | |
Conservative | Emma Will* | 1,817 | 71.3 | −1.3 | |
Conservative | Cem Kemahli | 1,779 | 69.8 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Michael O'Brien | 349 | 13.7 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Mary Gardiner | 346 | 13.6 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Marian Kearney | 338 | 13.3 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Penny Pocock | 291 | 11.4 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Margo Schwartz | 246 | 9.7 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alexander Nowak | 241 | 9.5 | N/A | |
Advance | Mark Sautter | 80 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mohammed Bakhtiar* | 924 | 52.5 | +7.4 | |
Labour | Portia Thaxter | 867 | 49.3 | +7.1 | |
Conservative | Eve Allison* | 592 | 33.7 | −11.4 | |
Conservative | Miloud Bouhaddou | 527 | 30.0 | −11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alexandra Tatton-Brown | 244 | 13.9 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Toby McMillan | 187 | 10.6 | +4.0 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Josh Rendall | 1,423 | 60.9 | −1.0 | |
Conservative | Kim Taylor-Smith | 1,407 | 60.2 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | Will Pascall* | 1,400 | 59.9 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Lorrain Motileb | 532 | 22.8 | +8.9 | |
Labour | Richard Chute | 507 | 21.7 | +8.6 | |
Labour | Mark Motileb | 500 | 21.4 | +9.5 | |
Green | Heinz Schumi | 223 | 9.5 | −9.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Carl Michel | 213 | 9.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Vincent Lowe | 200 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Guy Mayers | 179 | 7.7 | N/A | |
Advance | Jennifer Eastwood | 137 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
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Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Heinz Schumi stood as an Independent candidate in 2014.
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