2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election

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2022 Tower Hamlets Council election
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All 45 council seats
 First partySecond party
  Lutfurrahman1 (cropped).jpg John Biggs Labour politician London (cropped).jpg
Leader Lutfur Rahman John Biggs
Party Aspire Labour
Last election0 seats, 15.4%42 seats, 46.1%
Seats won2419
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 24Decrease2.svg 23
Percentage36.95%36.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg 21.6%Decrease2.svg 9.6%
 Third partyFourth party
 
LeaderNathalie Sylvia BienfaitElliott Weaver
Party Green Conservative
Last election0 seats, 8.6%2 seats, 9.9%
Seats won11
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1
Percentage9%7.6%
SwingIncrease2.svg 0.4%Decrease2.svg 2.3%
Tower Hamlets UK local election 2022 map.svg
Map showing the results of the 2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election. Aspire in orange, Labour in red, Conservatives in blue and Greens in green.
council control before election


Labour

Subsequent council control


Aspire

The 2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 45 members of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

Contents

In the previous election in 2018, the Labour Party regained control of the Council from no overall control, winning 42 out of the 45 seats with the Conservative Party as the principal opposition with two of the remaining three seats. The election coincided with an election for the mayor of Tower Hamlets. In the 2022 elections, the Aspire Party gained control of the Council from Labour, winning 24 seats, and also won the mayoralty. Reduced to 19 seats, this is the lowest ever number of seats Labour have ever held in the history of Tower Hamlets; the Conservatives retained one seat, while the Green Party gained one seat.

Background

History

Result of the 2018 borough election Tower Hamlets London UK local election 2018 map.svg
Result of the 2018 borough election

The thirty-two London boroughs were established in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. They are the principal authorities in Greater London and have responsibilities including education, housing, planning, highways, social services, libraries, recreation, waste, environmental health and revenue collection. Some powers are shared with the Greater London Authority, which also manages passenger transport, police, and fire. [1]

Since its formation, Tower Hamlets has generally been under Labour control. The SDP–Liberal Alliance won a majority of seats in the 1986 election, and the newly formed Liberal Democrats won a majority in the 1990 election. There was also a period of no overall control from 2014 to 2018. From 1990 to 2006, all councillors elected to the council were Labour or Liberal Democrats. In the 2006 election, Labour maintained its majority by winning 26 seats, but the new Respect Party won twelve seats, with the Conservatives on seven and the Liberal Democrats on six. [2] In the 2010 election Respect lost all but one of its seats, with Labour winning 41, the Conservatives winning eight and the Liberal Democrats winning one. Respect was the only party to advocate a change in executive arrangements at the council by the introduction of a directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets. A mayoral petition was successfully arranged by the Respect activist Abjol Miah, which was successful. [3]

The Labour councillor Lutfur Rahman, who had been leader of the council from 2008 until he was replaced in 2010 after a Channel 4 documentary linked him to the Islamic Forum of Europe, was selected as his party's candidate for the mayoralty. [4] He was removed as the candidate by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party after "very serious allegations" about the selection. [5] He subsequently ran as an independent candidate with support from Respect. [6] [7] Rahman was elected in the October 2010 election with more than half of the vote in the first round. [8] Rahman established a new political party called Tower Hamlets First in 2013. He ran for re-election as the Tower Hamlets First candidate in 2014, being re-elected in the second round against the Labour candidate John Biggs. [9] In the concurrent council election, Tower Hamlets First won 18 seats, with Labour on 22 and the Conservatives on 5, resulting in no overall control of the council. [10]

In 2015, Rahman was removed from office and his election was declared void after he was found guilty of electoral fraud. He was barred from seeking re-election for five years. [11] [12] Tower Hamlets First was de-registered as a political party by the Electoral Commission shortly after. [13] In the 2015 re-run of the mayoral election, Rahman endorsed the independent candidate Rabina Khan. [14] Khan had been elected as a Labour councillor in 2010 but had been suspended for supporting Rahman's initial 2010 election, and had been re-elected in the 2014 council election as a Tower Hamlets First councillor. [15] [16] Biggs won the election. [17] The former Tower Hamlets First councillors formed the Tower Hamlets Independent Group. Khan formed the breakaway group the People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) with some other Tower Hamlets Independent Group councillors, which was formally registered in 2018. [18] The remaining Tower Hamlets Independent Group councillors formed the new party Aspire. [19]

In the most recent mayoral election in 2018, Khan stood as the PATH candidate, coming second, and Ohid Ahmed stood for Aspire. Ahmed had been endorsed by Rahman. [20] Biggs was successfully re-elected for the Labour Party with 48.4% of the vote in the first round and 72.7% of the vote after second preferences were taken into account. [21] In the concurrent council election, Labour won 42 seats with 46.1% of the vote, while the Conservatives won two seats with 9.9% of the vote across the borough. Khan was elected as a councillor for PATH, with her party winning 11.3% of the vote across the borough. Aspire lost all their representation, winning no seats with 15.4% of the vote. The Liberal Democrats received 8.6% of the vote and the Green Party received 7.9% of the vote, but neither won any seats. [22]

Council term

Rabina Khan disbanded PATH in August 2018 and switched to the Liberal Democrats. [23] Mohammed Pappu, a councillor for Blackwall and Cubitt town, was suspended from the Labour Party in October 2018 after sharing antisemitic posts on social media. [24] [25] In the following month, he apologised, saying that he had not read the posts properly and offered to undergo training. [26] A Labour councillor for Lansbury ward, Mohammad Harun, resigned in December 2018 after Biggs ordered an investigation into allegations of housing fraud. [27] A Labour councillor for Shadwell ward, Ruhul Amin, resigned in January 2019 because he was moving to Bangladesh. [28] Both by-elections took place in February 2019, with Rajib Ahmed holding Lansbury for Labour and Ohid Ahmed coming in second place for Aspire. The Aspire candidate Mohammad Harun Miah won the by-election in Shadwell, with the Labour candidate Asik Rahman coming in second place. [29] Asik Rahman had apologised during the campaign for liking the Facebook page of Zakir Naik, a preacher who was banned from entering the UK. [30]

The leader of the Conservatives on the council, Andrew Wood, resigned from his party to sit as an independent in February 2020 while remaining in the Conservative group on the council. He cited the Conservative government's approach to Brexit and decision to override guidance to approve a controversial housing development in the borough. [31] John Pierce, a Labour councillor for Weavers ward, died in June 2021. He had been first elected in 2012. [32] A by-election to fill the seat was held in August 2021, which was won by the Aspire candidate Kabir Ahmed. [33] A Conservative councillor credited Aspire's victory to the Labour council's implementation of low traffic neighbourhood schemes, which Ahmed promised to end if Aspire won the 2022 council election. [33] [34]

Mayoral referendum

Tower Hamlets held a referendum in May 2021 on whether to maintain the system of directly electing a mayor, or to return to the leader-and-cabinet model where councillors elect a leader. [35] Biggs and the Labour Party, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats including Rabina Khan, and the Green Party campaigned in favour of ending the mayoral system, while Rahman campaigned to keep it. [36] The outcome of the referendum was to continue with the mayoral system, with 77.8% of votes in favour. [37]

Tower Hamlets Governance Referendum
6 May 2021
ChoiceVotes %
Check-71-128-204-brightblue.svg Elected mayor63,04677.8
Leader-and-cabinet system17,95722.2
Valid votes81,00395.9
Invalid or blank votes3,4444.1
Total votes84,447100.00
Source: [38]

Campaign

Council election

The communities minister Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Metropolitan Police and Electoral Commission about concerns over the possibility of election fraud and family voting in Tower Hamlets. [39]

Council candidates

The Labour Party, Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats all fielded a full slate of 45 candidates each. Aspire put forward 44 candidates - missing one candidate in the Whitechapel ward where Shahed Ali stood for the "Resurrection Young People. In Sha Allah" party. The Green Party fielded 39 candidates, with both the SDP and TUSC standing one candidate each. [40]

The election also saw the first openly transgender candidate stand in Tower Hamlets with Rebecca Jones of the Liberal Democrats in Bethnal Green West. [41]

Mayoral election

The Labour mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, sought re-election. [42] In January 2022, the Liberal Democrat councillor Rabina Khan was announced as her party's candidate for the mayoralty. [43] In the same month, the independent councillor Andrew Wood, who had resigned from the Conservative group in 2020, announced he would stand for election as both a councillor and mayor. [44] Wood said the council should spend more of its reserves building homes, schools and bridges. [45] The former mayor of the borough, Lutfur Rahman, announced his candidacy for the Aspire party in February 2022. [46] Rahman's five-year ban from standing for election, having been found guilty by an election court of "corrupt and illegal practices", had lapsed. [11] [12] He was endorsed at his formal campaign launch in March by the former mayor of London Ken Livingstone and the peer Pola Uddin. [47] Elliott Weaver stood as the Conservative mayoral candidate. [42]

Electoral process

Tower Hamlets, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. The election will take place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors. Electors will have as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three being elected.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in London aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. [48] Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election. [48]

Council composition

After 2018 electionBefore 2022 electionAfter 2022 election
PartySeatsPartySeatsPartySeats
Labour 42 Labour 40 Labour 19
Conservative 2 Aspire 2 Aspire 24
PATH 1 Conservative 1 Conservative 1
Liberal Democrats 1 Green 1
Independent 1


Results summary

2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Aspire 24240Increase2.svg 2453.336.969,141+21.5
  Labour 19023Decrease2.svg 2342.236.568,347-9.6
  Green 110Increase2.svg 12.28.916,620+1.0
  Conservative 101Decrease2.svg 12.27.714,380-2.2
  Liberal Democrats 000Steady2.svg0.08.916,691+0.3
  Independent 000Steady2.svg0.00.91,604+0.6
  TUSC 000Steady2.svg0.00.2301N/A
  SDP 000Steady2.svg0.00.039N/A

Results by ward

Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2018.

Bethnal Green East

The Bethnal Green ward was renamed Bethnal Green East in 2022 with no changes to the boundaries.

Bethnal Green East (3) [49]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sirajul Islam* 2,395 40.55 -9.50
Labour Rebeka Sultana 2,166 36.67 -14.90
Aspire Ahmodul Kabir 2,153 36.45 +27.59
Aspire Syed Abdullah2,11235.76+28.79
Labour Eve McQuillan*2,07635.15-14.66
Aspire Nurul Gaffar2,00133.88+27.57
Green Rupert George72012.19+0.20
Green Jack Mathews60910.31+0.23
Green Daniel Smith5859.91+0.50
Liberal Democrats Ryan James3135.30-1.33
Conservative Benjamin Hack2894.89-0.26
Conservative Samuel Hall2734.62-0.53
Conservative Dinah George2714.59-0.56
Liberal Democrats Eugene Lynch2333.95-2.19
Liberal Democrats Callum Robertson2323.93-1.78
Rejected ballots47
Turnout 5,90642.87+0.96
Registered electors 13,778
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Bethnal Green West

The St Peters ward was renamed Bethnal Green West in 2022 with no changes to the boundaries.

Bethnal Green West (3) [50]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Musthak Ahmed 2,744 44.97 +26.91
Aspire Abu Chowdhury 2,673 43.81 +27.15
Aspire Rahman Amin 2,562 41.99 +27.63
Labour Sufia Alam2,12334.79-8.58
Labour Kevin Brady*1,88130.83-15.63
Labour Mizan Chaudhury1,72428.25-13.23
Green Paul Burgess75212.32-1.32
Green David Cox74512.21+1.03
Liberal Democrats Rebecca Jones3746.13-0.23
Liberal Democrats Judith Cohen3415.59+0.38
Conservative Lucy Hamilton2584.23-0.94
Conservative Angela Magny2203.61+0.15
Conservative Bernard Magny1933.16+0.09
TUSC Sarah O'Neill1913.13N/A
Liberal Democrats Ashley Lumsden1893.10-1.35
Rejected ballots48
Turnout 6,10244.06+0.67
Registered electors 13,850
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Blackwall and Cubitt Town

Blackwall and Cubitt Town (3) [51]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Abdul Malik 1,374 29.86 +11.62
Aspire Ahmodur Khan 1,318 28.64 +13.06
Aspire Muhammad Uddin 1,292 28.07 +11.33
Labour Afsana Lachaux1,12924.53-8.31
Labour Christopher Worrall1,11224.16-7.71
Labour Mohammed Pappu*1,00121.75-6.30
Conservative Sofia De Sousa86918.88-3.87
Conservative Matthew Miles77716.88-3.91
Conservative Nick Vandyke74516.19-4.52
Liberal Democrats Guy Benson67314.62-0.84
Green Caroline Fenton55412.04+3.77
Liberal Democrats Richard Flowers55111.97-2.51
Liberal Democrats Azizur Khan52811.47+2.12
Green Seamus Hayes3647.91+0.03
Green Tamsin Kavanagh3597.80+1.72
Rejected ballots57
Turnout 4,60232.66-1.63
Registered electors 14,091
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Bow East

Bow East (3) [52]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Rachel Blake* 2,800 50.48 -8.17
Labour Co-op Amina Ali* 2,728 49.18 -3.02
Labour Co-op Marc Francis* 2,341 42.20 -13.40
Aspire Rahima Khatun1,32423.87+13.29
Aspire Masood Rahman1,22822.14+15.03
Aspire Monzo Khaton1,20721.76+14.84
Green Nicola Power96417.38+4.95
Green Ellis Bright91016.41+6.65
Liberal Democrats Liza Franchi5069.12+1.42
Conservative Robin Edwards3366.06-1.20
Conservative Lesley Lincoln2915.25-2.28
Liberal Democrats Simon Herbert2855.14-2.24
Liberal Democrats Richard MacMilan2825.08-2.11
Conservative Imogen Sinclair2474.45-0.98
Rejected ballots35
Turnout 5,54738.81+0.68
Registered electors 14,292
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Bow West

Bow West (2) [53]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Asma Begum* 1,601 38.44 -22.28
Green Nathalie Bienfait 1,253 30.08 +19.94
Labour Val Whitehead*1,21829.24-22.67
Aspire Ripon Ali1,03524.85+17.90
Green Alistair Polson1,00424.11+11.40
Aspire Junu Ali94422.67+16.99
Liberal Democrats Janet Ludlow2054.92-5.60
Conservative Desmond Ellerbeck1914.59-4.48
Liberal Democrats Tom Kaneko1593.82-2.68
Conservative Mariem Sarghini1573.77-3.41
Rejected ballots32
Turnout 4,16546.09+2.87
Registered electors 9,036
Labour hold Swing
Green gain from Labour Swing

Bromley North

Bromley North (2) [54]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Abdul Nazrul 1,495 43.54 +15.94
Aspire Saif Khaled 1,431 41.67 +25.66
Labour Najnine Chowdhury124236.18-5.51
Labour Muhammad Salam84124.49-10.15
Green Daniel Blythin-Hammond34610.08+2.21
Green Bethan Lant2818.18N/A
Liberal Democrats Nehad Chowdhury2126.17+0.38
Conservative Jonathan Gillespie1594.63+0.27
Liberal Democrats Siobhan Proudfoot1564.54+1.19
Conservative Mohammed Rahman942.74-0.83
SDP Jonathon Mabbut391.14N/A
Rejected ballots45
Turnout 3,43443.54+1.04
Registered electors 7,887
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Bromley South

Bromley South (2) [55]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Shubo Hussain 1,772 44.10 -3.36
Aspire Bodrul Choudhury 1,616 40.22 +13.17
Aspire Ikbal Hussain1,47836.78+12.78
Labour Jenny Symmons1,33033.10-13.64
Green Barney Green2395.95-0.11
Green Rob Curry2335.80+1.39
Liberal Democrats Joshua Casswell2075.15+0.07
Conservative Stephen Charge1433.56-1.49
Conservative Indigo Atherton1393.46+0.09
Liberal Democrats David Vinas761.89-2.49
Rejected ballots45
Turnout 4,01844.23-0.23
Registered electors 9,085
Labour hold Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf (2) [56]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Maium Talukdar 1,164 31.66 +9.00
Aspire Saled Ahmed 1,023 27.83 +13.07
Independent Andrew Wood* †99327.01-1.58
Labour Co-op Adam Allnutt88524.08-0.52
Labour Co-op Shajia Sultana84623.01-1.53
Conservative Francis Germaine-Powell49213.38-15.21
Conservative Samia Hersey40811.10-13.31
Liberal Democrats Morgan Jones3639.87-0.33
Liberal Democrats Mohammed Hannan2707.34+0.15
Rejected ballots26
Turnout 3,67632.28-1.61
Registered electors 11,389
Aspire gain from Conservative Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

† Andrew Wood was elected for the Conservative Party in 2018, but resigned to sit as an Independent in 2020. [31]

Island Gardens

Island Gardens (2) [57]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Golds* 1,092 27.66 -1.33
Labour Mufeedah Bustin* 1,013 25.66 -1.37
Aspire Sadiqur Rahman97124.59+14.90
Aspire Syed Ali93623.71+16.32
Conservative Callum Murphy89222.59+2.21
Labour Zaglul Khan86421.88-2.80
Green David Allison51613.07+6.42
Liberal Democrats Shelly English48912.39-3.69
Liberal Democrats Andrew Cregan3629.17-14.38
Rejected ballots39
Turnout 3,94840.12-0.96
Registered electors 9,840
Conservative hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Lansbury

Lansbury (3) [58]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Abul Ahmed 2,686 48.75 +21.19
Aspire Iqbal Hossain 2,413 43.79 +25.91
Aspire Jahed Choudhury 2,286 41.49 +23.60
Labour Kahar Chowdhury*1,80332.72-10.71
Labour Shaheda Rahman1,54227.99-9.92
Labour Ansarul Haque1,47926.84-10.48
Green Norm Cassidy5469.91+2.26
Liberal Democrats Elaine Bagshaw4948.97-1.34
Green John Scanlan4648.42+1.70
Conservative Chrissie Townsend3736.77-1.31
Conservative Paul Ingham3336.04-1.83
Conservative Akbar Ali2033.68-1.33
Liberal Democrats Abdul Manik1492.70-7.57
Liberal Democrats Muhammad Uddin1342.43-3.64
Rejected ballots74
Turnout 5,51041.34+0.03
Registered electors 13,330
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Limehouse

Limehouse (1) [59]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James King* 728 40.18 +3.13
Conservative David Garside40322.24-8.28
Aspire Atia Jorna34719.15+8.99
Liberal Democrats Warwick Danks19110.54-2.46
Green Geoffrey Juden1437.89+2.15
Majority325
Rejected ballots12
Turnout 181239.27-4.84
Registered electors 4,668
Labour hold Swing

Mile End

Mile End (3) [60]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sabina Khan 2,530 42.59 -7.71
Labour Leelu Ahmed 2,120 35.69 -12.12
Labour Mohammad Chowdhury 2,119 35.67 -3.34
Aspire Helal Miah2,04134.36+16.47
Aspire Azad Miah1,95632.93+16.39
Aspire Haji Habib1,90031.99+17.60
Green Jack Gibbons5629.46+0.30
Green Simon Levey4607.74+0.50
Green Gunther Jancke4567.68N/A
Liberal Democrats Tabitha Potts3786.36+0.22
Conservative Craig Aston3135.27-2.49
Liberal Democrats Horia Bogdan3105.22-1.61
Conservative Shah Alam2494.19-1.17
Liberal Democrats Wei Qu2404.04-1.95
Conservative Srikanth Rajgopal1732.91-1.61
Rejected ballots62
Turnout 5,94042.78+1.99
Registered electors 13,885
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Poplar

Poplar (1) [61]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Gulam Choudhury 1,134 53.07 +26.25
Labour Zenith Rahman60228.17-8.67
Green Rebecca Binns1527.11N/A
Conservative Dominic Nolan1316.13-1.07
Liberal Democrats Habibur Tafader1185.52+0.69
Majority532
Rejected ballots48
Turnout 2,13744.25
Registered electors 4,940
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Shadwell

Shadwell (2) [62]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Harun Miah 2,003 46.66 +22.32
Aspire Ana Miah 1,486 34.61 +15.86
Liberal Democrats Rabina Khan * †1,45133.80-4.57
Labour Abdus Shukur87220.31-10.83
Labour Victoria Obaze85219.85-8.51
Liberal Democrats Simon Tunnicliffe4039.39+5.34
Green Charlotte Nicholls2696.27+1.34
Conservative Daryl Stafford1693.94+0.36
Conservative Tara Hussain1242.89-1.50
Rejected ballots40
Turnout 4,29349.97+0.08
Registered electors 8,591
Aspire gain from PATH Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

† Rabina Khan was elected for PATH in 2018, but defected to the Liberal Democrats. [23]

Spitalfields and Banglatown

Spitalfields and Banglatown (2) [63]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Kabir Hussain 1,595 42.66 +19.82
Aspire Suluk Ahmed 1,591 42.55 +19.44
Labour Shad Chowdhury*1,54541.32-8.84
Labour Nazma Hussain1,12830.17-2.62
Green Abdul Hye2937.84+0.01
Liberal Democrats Freda Graf2426.47+0.61
Conservative Timothy Lowe1734.63-3.49
Liberal Democrats Gareth Shelton1724.60-0.99
Conservative Shamim Miah942.51-3.82
Rejected ballots49
Turnout 3,73941.40+1.16
Registered electors 9,032
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

St Dunstan's

St Dunstan's (2) [64]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ayas Miah* 1,936 40.74 -10.41
Labour Maisha Begum 1,840 38.72 -1.93
Aspire Juned Khan1,69235.61+17.42
Aspire Nazir Ahmed1,62334.15+23.42
Conservative Adrian Thompson4228.88+3.28
Liberal Democrats Farhana Akther3006.31+1.01
Conservative Edward Brown2294.82+0.34
Liberal Democrats Mohammed Alam2204.63+1.70
Green Neil Thompson2024.25-3.07
Rejected ballots51
Turnout 4,75251.30+2.02
Registered electors 9,263
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

St Katharine's and Wapping

St Katharine's and Wapping (2) [65]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Abdul Ullah* 1,133 31.34 +2.56
Labour Amy Lee 1,128 31.18 -4.46
Liberal Democrats Dominic Buxton96126.56+0.29
Liberal Democrats Mahbub Alam74920.70-2.04
Conservative Neil King61216.92-5.20
Conservative Jane Emmerson56415.59-11.05
Aspire Abulkashem Helal47113.02+9.12
Aspire Khayrul Hasan44612.33+11.38
Green Oliver Barrs37410.34+0.98
Green Peter Simister2787.68N/A
Rejected ballots
Turnout 3,61840.91-1.58
Registered electors 8,843
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Stepney Green

Stepney Green (2) [66]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Abdul Ali 1,623 39.55 +26.59
Labour Sabina Akhtar* 1,588 38.69 -16.30
Aspire Shuhel Malique1,34632.80+24.88
Labour Motin Uz-Zaman*1,12127.31-12.27
Liberal Democrats Akhlaqur Rahman67616.47-5.37
Liberal Democrats Kim Nottage3328.09+3.81
Green Kirsty Chestnutt3087.50-0.75
Green Thomas Mackay2024.92+0.27
Conservative Stephen Alton1984.82-1.01
Conservative Panagiotis Koutroumpis1082.63-2.10
Rejected ballots62
Turnout 4,10449.63+1.84
Registered electors 8,270
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Labour hold Swing

Weavers

Weavers (2) [67]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Kabir Ahmed 1,649 43.54 +29.37
Labour Co-op Asma Islam 1,417 37.42 -11.18
Aspire Fazleh Elaahi1,22432.32+17.71
Labour Co-op Kevin McKenna1,13529.97-11.59
Green Katy Guttmann39510.43+1.05
Conservative Elliot Weaver2376.26+0.94
Green Benjamin Hancocks2255.94-2.72
Liberal Democrats John Adam2035.36+1.55
Liberal Democrats Ed Long1503.96-3.33
TUSC Hugo Pierre1102.90N/A
Conservative Moulay Essaydi1062.80-3.23
Rejected ballots33
Turnout 3,78741.07+0.36
Registered electors 9,221
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Labour hold Swing

Whitechapel

Whitechapel (3) [68]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Aspire Shafi Ahmed 1,954 41.63 +11.72
Labour Faroque Ahmed* 1,663 35.43 -7.75
Aspire Kamrul Hussain 1,594 33.96 +7.08
Labour Amina Ali1,51032.17-0.05
Labour Shah Ameen*1,46831.27-9.13
Liberal Democrats Aminur Khan65714.00-12.88
Resurrection Young People. In Sha AllahShahed Ali61113.02N/A
Liberal Democrats Muhammad Abul Asad58612.48-13.12
Liberal Democrats Michael Robinson56912.12+3.23
Green Samuel Roberts50510.76+0.89
Green Shahrar Ali 3527.50-0.22
Conservative Michael Dormer2735.82-1.62
Conservative Nikola Suica2044.35-2.18
Conservative Mustafa Khan1533.26-2.51
Rejected ballots42
Turnout 4,69439.45+0.69
Registered electors 13,292
Aspire gain from Labour Swing
Labour hold Swing
Aspire gain from Labour Swing

Candidate winning margin

Eight candidates won election by fewer that 100 votes - although one of these was over a candidate from the same party. [69]

WardFinal winning candidateNext candidateWinning margin
PartyVotesPercentagePartyVotesPercentageVotesPercentage
Bethnal Green EastAspire215313.11Aspire212212.86410.25
Bethnal Green WestAspire256215.1Labour212312.514392.59
Blackwall and Cubitt TownAspire129210.22Labour11298.931631.29
Bow EastLabour234115.15Aspire13248.5710176.58
Bow WestGreen125316.13Labour121815.68350.45
Bromley NorthAspire143122.73Labour124219.731893.00
Bromley SouthAspire161622.34Aspire147820.431381.91
Canary WharfAspire102315.88Independent99315.41300.47
Island GardensLabour101314.20Aspire97113.61420.59
LansburyAspire228615.34Labour180312.104833.24
LimehouseLabour72840.18Conservative40322.2432517.94
Mile EndLabour211913.41Aspire204112.91780.50
PoplarAspire113453.07Labour60228.1753224.90
ShadwellAspire148619.48Lib Dem145119.02350.46
Spitalfields and BanglatownAspire159123.28Labour154522.61460.67
St Dunstan'sLabour184021.74Aspire169219.991481.75
St Katherine's and WappingLabour112816.80Lib Dem96114.311672.49
Stepney GreenLabour158821.17Aspire134617.942423.23
WeaversLabour141720.68Aspire122417.871932.81
WhitechapelAspire159413.17Labour151012.48840.69

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