2025 City of London Corporation election

2025 City of London Corporation election

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100 seats on Common Council 51 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Independent Temple & Farringdon Together Last election 78 seats, 62.7% 10 seats, 5.3% Seats before 77 10 Seats won 83 10 Seat change 5   Third party Fourth party   Party Labour Castle Baynard Independents Last election 5 seats, 26.3% 7 seats, 4.4% Seats before 6 7 Seats won 7 0 Seat change 2 7
Council control before election No overall control Council control after election No overall control

The 2025 City of London Corporation election was held on 20 March 2025, prior to most other 2025 United Kingdom local elections, to elect Commoners to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.

The City of London is the oldest continuously-running municipal democracy in the world.

Background

Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years. ^[1] At the last election in 2022 (delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic) ^[2] 78 seats were won by Independents, 5 by Labour, and the remaining 17 by localist groups. ^[3]

Electoral system

Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Farringdon Without, Portsoken and Queenhithe are the more resident-populated of the twenty-five City Wards. Residents each have one vote, and businesses are allotted votes scaled in accordance with the number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that. ^[4]

Common Councillors (aka Commoners) are elected by block voting.

On the day before polling day, in this case the 19 March, wardmote meetings are held in which residents and workers are able to ask candidates questions. ^[5]

Common Council composition

Since the 2022 election, six by-elections have been held to replace Commoners who resigned from or died in office.

Two such by-elections were held in 2022, with Independents being elected for both Bridge and Bridge Without and Cordwainer. ^[6]

Three were held in 2023, when an Independent was elected for Castle Baynard; ^{[6] [7]} Labour gained a seat on Common Council following the death of an Independent in Cripplegate; ^[8] and Temple & Farringdon Together returned a Commoner unopposed for Farringdon Without.

The only by-election in 2024 was held on the same day as the general election, when an Independent was elected for Farringdon Within. ^[9]

Contesting groups and parties

Groups with prior representation

Below displays the current affiliation of Commoners on the City Common Council. Political party affiliations are shown. Some independents may align with slates of candidates for their ward. All parties are running candidates in the upcoming election.

Parties				Leader(s)	Ideology	Website	Seats		Candidates standing
							2022 election	Prior to the election
	Independent			N/A	N/A	N/A	78 / 100	77 / 100	104
	Temple & Farringdon Together			Wendy Mead		www.templeandfarringdon.com	10 / 100	10 / 100	10
	Castle Baynard Independents			John Griffiths		www.castle-baynard.org.uk	7 / 100	7 / 100	8
	Labour Party				Social democracy	www.citylabour.org	5 / 100	6 / 100	13

Slates

Temple & Farringdon Together and Castle Baynard Independents are registered political parties, and hence are not included in this section.

The following groups are running a slate of candidates in a particular ward:

Slate		Leader(s)	Ward	Website	2022 Councillors	Candidates standing
	[10]		Bassishaw		1 / 2	2
	#Better Billingsgate [11]		Billingsgate		1 / 6	2
	David & Julie	David O'Reilly	Billingsgate	www.davidjulie4billingsgate.com	0 / 6	2
	Bishopsgate Ward Team	Simon Duckworth	Bishopsgate	www.bishopsgate.london/team	4 / 6	6
	Ward of Bread Street	Emily Benn	Bread Street	www.breadstreet.org	2 / 2	2
	[12]		Bridge		1 / 2	2
	Iceni [13]	Martha Grekos	Castle Baynard	www.castlebaynardiceni.org	0 / 8	8
	Ward of Cheap Team	Robert Hughes-Penney	Cheap	www.wardofcheap.city	3 / 3	3
	Coleman Street Ward	Dawn Wright	Coleman Street	www.colemanstreetward.org	1 / 4	4
	Cordwainer Ward Team		Cordwainer		2 / 3	3
	Team Dowgate	Henry Pollard	Dowgate	www.teamdowgate.org	2 / 2	2
	Farringdon Within Ward candidates		Farringdon Within	www.farringdonwithin.com	1 / 8	2
	Langbourn Team		Langbourn	www.langbourn.london	2 / 3	2
	Team [14]		Portsoken		3 / 4	4
	Tower Ward Team		Tower	www.jamestumbridge.com	4 / 4	4
	Vote Hodgson	Jaspreet Hodgson	Vintry	www.hodgson.city	1 / 2	2
	Team Walbrook	James Thomson	Walbrook	www.jamesthomson.london	2 / 2	2

Results summary

Prior to the election being held, 45 of the 100 councillors were elected uncontested across 14 wards, ^{[15] [5]} with some wards seeing candidates pull out.

2022 City of London Corporation election [16]
Party		Seats					Votes
		Count	Gains	Losses	Net	Of total (%)	Of total (%)	Count	Change
	Independent	83	7	2	5	83.0
	Labour	7	2	0	2	7.0
	Temple & Farringdon Together	10	0	0		10.0
	Castle Baynard Independents	0	0	7	7	0.0
Total		100

Results by ward

Asterisks denote incumbents. The results are compared to the 2022 elections.

Aldersgate

Aldersgate (6 seats) ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Fentiman*	399
	Labour	Stephen Goodman*	375
	Labour	Sandra Jenner	369
	Independent	Deborah Oliver*	346
	Independent	Annet Rideg*	292
	Independent	Naresh Sonpar*	291
	Independent	Iain Meek	163
Turnout				38%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Aldgate

Aldgate (5 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Lesley Cole	–
	Independent	Timothy McNally*	–
	Independent	Andrien Meyers*	–
	Independent	David Sales*	–
	Independent	Mandeep Thandi*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bassishaw

Bassishaw (2 seats) ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Madush Gupta*	167
	Independent	Cecile Boulton	126
	Independent	Randall Anderson	116
	Independent	Ian Bishop-Laggett*	40
	Independent	Ayub Azad	17
Turnout				33%
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Billingsgate

Billingsgate (2 seats) ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nighat Qureishi*	137
	Independent	Melissa Collett	115
	Independent	David O'Reilly	52
	Independent	Julie Tucker	51
	Independent	Luis Tilleria*	25
	No description	Jade Hagen	4
Turnout				42%
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate (6 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Simon Burrows	–
	Independent	Karina Dostalova	–
	Independent	Simon Duckworth*	–
	Independent	Shavran Joshi*	–
	Independent	Benjamin Murphy*	–
	Independent	Tom Sleigh*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bread Street

Bread Street (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Emily Benn*	–
	Independent	Giles Shilson*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bridge

Bridge and Bridge Without (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Keith Bottomley*	–
	Independent	Hugh Selka	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Broad Street

Broad Street (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Elizabeth Corrin	–
	Independent	Christopher Hayward*	–
	Independent	Antony Manchester*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Candlewick

Candlewick (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	James St John Davis*	–
	Independent	Christopher Boden*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Castle Baynard

Castle Baynard (8 seats) ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Bethany Coombs	292
	Independent	Tana Adkin	290
	Independent	Helen Ladele	289
	Independent	Susan Farrington	271
	Independent	Vasiliki Manta	271
	Independent	Leyla Ostovar	266
	Independent	Stephanie Steeden	257
	Independent	Josephine Hayes	255
	CB Independents	Graham Packham*	222
	CB Independents	George Godfrey	207
	CB Independents	Mary Durcan*	205
	CB Independents	John Griffiths*	203
	CB Independents	Debra Witt	199
	CB Independents	Henrika Priest*	198
	CB Independents	Paul Singh	196
	CB Independents	Michael Hudson	185
	Independent	Alpa Raja*	91
	Independent	Ronnie Barker	80
	Independent	Chris MacNeil	32
Turnout				31%
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents
	Independent politician gain from CB Independents

Cheap

Cheap (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nick Bensted-Smith*	–
	Independent	Tijs Broeke*	–
	Independent	Alastair Moss*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Coleman Street

Coleman Street (4 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shahnan Bakth	–
	Independent	Philip Kelvin	–
	Independent	Sushil Saluja	–
	Independent	Dawn Wright*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold

Cordwainer

Cordwainer (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jamel Banda*	–
	Independent	Amy Horscroft	–
	Independent	Michael Snyder*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold

Cornhill

Cornhill (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Joanna Abeyie*	–
	Independent	Peter Dunphy*	–
	Independent	Tessa Marchington	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Cripplegate

Cripplegate (8 seats) ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anne Corbett*	503
	Labour	Jacqui Webster	502
	Labour	Mercy Haggerty	447
	Independent	Dawn Frampton	443
	Labour	Sarah Gillinson	443
	Independent	Ceri Wilkins*	390
	Independent	Gaby Robertshaw	384
	Independent	Adam Hogg	368
	Independent	Christos Christou	277
	Independent	Ivo de Wit	168
Turnout				35%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Labour gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent gain from Independent

Dowgate

Dowgate (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Henry Pollard*	–
	Independent	Mark Wheatley*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Farringdon Within

Farringdon Within (8 seats) ^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Edwards*	259
	Independent	Ann Holmes*	242
	Independent	Brendan Barns*	232
	Independent	John Foley*	206
	Independent	Matthew Bell*	201
	Independent	David Williams	201
	Independent	Florence Keelson-Anfu*	146
	Independent	Fraser Peck	133
	Independent	Jani Levanen	123
	Independent	Nzube Ufodike	88
	Labour	Gordon Nardell	80
	Labour	Bilal Mahmood	79
	Independent	Gerard O'Sullivan	76
Turnout				32%
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Farringdon Without

Farringdon Without (10 seats) ^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	T&F Together	Paul Martinelli*	260
	T&F Together	Greg Lawrence*	253
	T&F Together	Wendy Mead*	253
	T&F Together	George Abrahams*	249
	T&F Together	Oliver Sells*	232
	T&F Together	William Upton*	229
	T&F Together	Edward Lord*	227
	T&F Together	Suzanne Ornsby	222
	T&F Together	Ruby Sayed*	222
	T&F Together	Stuart Thompson	212
	Independent	Desiree Artesi	145
Turnout				11%
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold
	T&F Together hold

Langbourn

Langbourn (3 seats) ^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Timothy Butcher*	135
	Independent	Matthew Waters	102
	Independent	Philip Woodhouse*	90
	Independent	Judith Pleasance*	84
	Independent	Amy Green	68
Turnout				41%
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold

Lime Street

Lime Street (4 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Dominic Christian*	–
	Independent	Henry Colthurst*	–
	Independent	Anthony Fitzpatrick*	–
	Independent	Irem Yerdelen*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Portsoken

Portsoken (4 seats) ^[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Fletcher*	219
	Independent	Samapti Bagchi	207
	Independent	Jason Paul Pritchard*	183
	Independent	Munsur Ali*	171
	Independent	Aline Koztepe	115
	Independent	Hanif Ali	113
	Labour	Joe Verlander	52
	Labour	Dil-Veer Kang	36
Turnout				49%
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Queenhithe

Queenhithe (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Caroline Haines*	–
	Independent	Brian Mooney*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Tower

Tower (4 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Aaron D'Souza	–
	Independent	Marianne Fredericks*	–
	Independent	Jason Groves*	–
	Independent	James Tumbridge*	–
Turnout				N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Vintry

Vintry (2 seats) ^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jaspreet Hodgson*	131
	Independent	Stephen Hodgson	111
	Labour	Jonathan McLeod	30
	Labour	Mark Glover	26
Turnout				49%
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Walbrook

Walbrook (2 seats) ^[27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alethea Silk*	150
	Independent	James Thomson*	145
	Independent	Gillian Kaile	41
Turnout				39%
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

See also

• Chief Commoner
• City of London

References

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2. "Forthcoming elections". City of London Corporation. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
3. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2022 - City of London Corporation". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
4. "The place where businesses and their office workers vote". BBC News. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
5. Wright, Charles (19 March 2025). "Charles Wright: Limited competition in City of London elections". OnLondon. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
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7. "Castle Baynard". castle-baynard.org.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
8. "Local Elections Archive Project — Cripplegate Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
9. "Election results". City of London. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
10. "Bassishaw". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
11. "Billingsgate". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
12. Bottomley, Keith (February 2025). "Hugh Selka and I are standing for re-election". LinkedIn .
13. KC, Tana Adkin (4 November 2024). "If you want more women in the City, vote for us". City AM. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
14. "Portsoken - Community". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
15. Zorzut, Adrian (11 March 2025). "Full list of City of London election candidates and polling stations". My London. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
16. "Local Election Results 2022 City of London Corporation". Local Elections Archive Project. 19 October 2024.
17. "Aldersgate".
18. "Bassishaw".
19. "Billingsgate".
20. {{Cite web |title=Castle Baynard |url=https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections/elections-results/2025-city-elections-results/ward-of-castle-baynard
21. "Cripplegate".
22. "Farringdon Within".
23. "Farringdon Without".
24. "Langbourn".
25. "Portsoken".
26. "Vintry".
27. "Walbrook".

External links

• Wards and candidate statements from the Corporation's Election Services website