2022 London local elections

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2022 London local elections
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All 1,817 councillors on all 32 London boroughs,
and 5 directly-elected mayors
 First partySecond party
 
Party Labour Conservative
Popular vote984,585598,734
Percentage42.525.8
SwingDecrease2.svg2.2%Decrease2.svg3.0%
Councils215
Councils +/–Steady2.svgDecrease2.svg2
Councillors1,156404
Councillors +/–Increase2.svg28Decrease2.svg104
 Third partyFourth party
 
Party Liberal Democrats Green
Popular vote333,635270,750
Percentage14.411.7
SwingIncrease2.svg1.4%Increase2.svg3.1%
Councils30
Councils +/–Steady2.svgSteady2.svg
Councillors18018
Councillors +/–Increase2.svg28Increase2.svg7
London local elections 2022.svg
Map showing London borough councils by political control following the elections, as shown in the main table of results. Black denotes no overall control.

The 2022 London local elections took place on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections. All London borough councillor seats were up for election. Mayoral elections took place in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets, with Croydon electing a mayor for the first time following a local referendum in October 2021.

Contents

The election saw Labour gain majority control of Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster councils whilst the Conservatives gained majority control of Harrow Council and the Aspire Party gained control of Tower Hamlets Council, both from Labour. Labour also lost Croydon Council to no overall control. Of the four existing mayoralties, Labour held three but lost the position of mayor of Tower Hamlets to Lutfur Rahman of the Aspire Party, who had previously been removed from the same office after being found guilty of "corrupt or illegal practices" by an election court. The Conservative candidate Jason Perry won the newly created Croydon mayoralty.

Background

The previous borough council elections in May 2018 saw the London Labour Party achieve their best result in over 45 years, winning 44% of the vote, 1,128 councillors and control of 21 councils. This represented the party's second-best result in a London local election, only surpassed slightly by its 1971 total. The London Conservatives, lost 92 seats to finish with 508 councillors, its lowest-ever tally of seats in a London local election. The London Liberal Democrats won two councils from the Conservatives, the London Green Party won a total of 11 council seats and support for the UK Independence Party collapsed, with the party losing all of its seats. [2] [3] [4] In the 2019 general election, there was no net change in the number of seats for each party, although several seats changed hands. The biggest changes in vote share were for Labour, who received 48% of the vote across the city but saw a fall of 6.5 percentage points, and the Liberal Democrats, who were up 6.1 percentage points compared to the previous 2017 general election.

Newham and Tower Hamlets held local referendums in May 2021 on whether to abolish their mayoral positions and return to a leader and cabinet system. [5] [6] [7] Both resulted in voters choosing to retain the mayoral model. [8] In the same month, the Labour candidate Sadiq Khan was re-elected as the mayor of London, and the 2021 London Assembly election resulted in small gains for the Conservatives, Green Party and Liberal Democrats at the expense of Labour and the UK Independence Party. Croydon Council held a referendum on 7 October 2021 on whether to adopt a mayor position. [9] [7] The result was to change to the mayoral system, with the first mayor being due to be elected alongside the council election in 2022. [10]

Twenty-five of the thirty-two boroughs will be electing councillors under new ward boundaries following reviews by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. [11]

Campaign

In January 2022, the Conservative peer Robert Hayward said that in the wake of the Westminster lockdown parties controversy, his party risked losing control of Wandsworth, Westminster, Barnet and Hillingdon London Borough Councils. [12] Polls of London in January and March 2022 showed Labour with a large lead over the Conservatives. Dave Hill in OnLondon wrote that the poll results would make Labour more confident of making gains in Barnet, Wandsworth, Hillingdon and Westminster, and of winning the new directly-elected mayoralty of Croydon despite financial issues in the borough. He also wrote that the Conservatives were aiming to make gains in Harrow. [13] Nick Bowes, the chief executive of the Centre for London, wrote that Labour gaining control of Barnet and Wandsworth councils would "be a good night for the party in London". [14] The academics Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher wrote that Labour's strong result in the 2018 election meant "it may be hard for Labour to make much headway or for the Conservatives to fall much further". [15]

A poll by Survation on what issues would affect how people voted showed Council Tax, the Westminster lockdown parties controversy, and social care quality as the main issues, with far fewer voters ranking Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes as one of the issues that would most affect how they vote. [16]

The Liberal Democrats launched their local election campaign on 6 April. The party were targeting seats on Merton Council. [17] Labour launched their London local election campaign on 9 April, with the national party leader Keir Starmer and the mayor of London saying that the Conservative government had "abandoned" London and were not concerned about the rising cost of living. [18]

The journalist Ben Walker, writing in the New Statesman , modelled what the election results would look like according to the voteshares in an April poll by Opinium. His model showed Labour gaining control of Wandsworth and Barnet, with 1,157 to 1,188 seats across the city, while the Conservatives would win between 428 and 452 seats, the Liberal Democrats would win between 149 and 179 seats, and the Green Party would win between 11 and 22 seats. [19]

Council results

Summary

Party [20] Votes won % votesChangeSeats % seatsChangeCouncilsChange
Labour 984,58542.5Decrease2.svg1.41,15663.6Increase2.svg2821Steady2.svg
Conservative 598,73425.8Decrease2.svg3.040422.2Decrease2.svg1045Decrease2.svg2
Liberal Democrats 333,63514.4Increase2.svg1.41809.9Increase2.svg283Steady2.svg
Green 270,75011.7Increase2.svg3.1181.0Increase2.svg70Steady2.svg
Others131,1945.6Decrease2.svg0.1593.2Increase2.svg251Increase2.svg1
No overall control —2Increase2.svg1

Control

CouncilSeatsParty controlDetails
PreviousResult
Barking and Dagenham 51 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Barnet 63 [lower-alpha 1] Conservative Labour Details
Bexley 45 Conservative Conservative Details
Brent 57 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Bromley 58 [lower-alpha 1] Conservative Conservative Details
Camden 55 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Croydon 70 Labour No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Ealing 70 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Enfield 63 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Greenwich 55 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Hackney 57 Labour Labour Details
Hammersmith and Fulham 50 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Haringey 57 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Harrow 55 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Conservative Details
Havering 55 [lower-alpha 1] No overall control (Conservative/ind. coalition) No overall control (HRA/Labour coalition) Details
Hillingdon 53 [lower-alpha 1] Conservative Conservative Details
Hounslow 62 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Islington 51 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Kensington and Chelsea 50 Conservative Conservative Details
Kingston upon Thames 48 [lower-alpha 1] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
Lambeth 63 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Lewisham 54 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Merton 57 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Newham 66 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Redbridge 63 Labour Labour Details
Richmond upon Thames 54 [lower-alpha 1] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
Southwark 63 Labour Labour Details
Sutton 55 [lower-alpha 1] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
Tower Hamlets 45 Labour Aspire Details
Waltham Forest 60 [lower-alpha 1] Labour Labour Details
Wandsworth 58 [lower-alpha 1] Conservative Labour Details
Westminster 54 [lower-alpha 1] Conservative Labour Details
All 32 councils1,817

Councillors

The table below shows the number of councillors won by each party for each council in London. The shaded cells show the party or parties in each council's governing administration.

Council Lab Con Lib Dem Green OthersDetails
Barking and Dagenham 510000 Details
Barnet 4122000 Details
Bexley 1233000 Details
Brent 495300 Details
Bromley 123650
5
Chislehurst Matters: 3
Independent: 2
 Details
Camden 473410 Details
Croydon 3433 [lower-alpha 2] 120 Details
Ealing 595600 Details
Enfield 3825000 Details
Greenwich 523000 Details
Hackney 505020 Details
Hammersmith and Fulham 4010000 Details
Haringey 500700 Details
Harrow 2431000 Details
Havering 92300
23
Havering Residents Association: 20 [lower-alpha 3]
Harold Hill Independent: 3
 Details
Hillingdon 2330000 Details
Hounslow 5210000 Details
Islington 480030 Details
Kensington and Chelsea 1335200 Details
Kingston upon Thames 03440
1
Independent: 1
 Details
Lambeth 580320 Details
Lewisham 540000 Details
Merton 317170
2
Merton Park Ward Independent Residents: 2
 Details
Newham 640020 Details
Redbridge 585000 Details
Richmond upon Thames 014850 Details
Southwark 5201100 Details
Sutton 320290
3
Independent: 3
 Details
Tower Hamlets 19101
24
Aspire: 24
 Details
Waltham Forest 4713000 Details
Wandsworth 352200
1
Independent: 1
 Details
Westminster 3123000 Details
Total1,1564041801859

Mayors

CouncilMayor beforeElected mayor
Croydon New office Jason Perry (Con)
Hackney Philip Glanville (Lab) Philip Glanville (Lab)
Lewisham Damien Egan (Lab) Damien Egan (Lab)
Newham Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab) Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab)
Tower Hamlets John Biggs (Lab) Lutfur Rahman (Aspire)

Opinion polling

Date(s)
conducted		Polling organisation/clientSample
size		 Lab Con Lib Dem Green OthersDon't knowWouldn't voteRefusedLead
5 May 20222022 elections [21] n/a42.5%25.8%14.4%11.7%5.6%---16.7%
19–22 April 2022 YouGov/QMUL 1,23250%23%12%9%----27%
14–20 April 2022 Opinium/Sky News 1,00045%25%12%10%----20%
3–7 March 2022 Deltapoll/London Communications Agency 1,02654%24%9%5%8%---30%
28 February – 3 March 2022 YouGov/QMUL 1,11434%17%8%6%3%9%17%5%17%
3 May 20182018 electionsn/a43.9%28.8%13.0%8.6%5.7%---15.0%

Ward result maps

London-wide

The map below shows the results for each ward across the whole of Greater London.

2022 London local elections results map Citywide ward results of the 2022 London local elections.svg
2022 London local elections results map

By borough

See also

Notes

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 New election boundaries
    2. ↑ Led by a Conservative Mayor
    3. ↑ Led by a Havering Residents Association and Labour coalition

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