Camden London Borough Council election, 2018

Camden London Borough Council election, 2018
All 54 seats to Camden London Borough Council ; 27 seats needed for a majority
	Map of the results of the 2018 Camden council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow.
Council control before election; ; Labour	Council control after election; ; Labour

Last updated March 17, 2019

The 2018 Camden election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Camden Council in London. The Labour Party increased their majority on the council by gaining three seats from the Conservatives, who also lost two seats to the Liberal Democrats.

Camden London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. Camden is divided into 18 wards, each electing three councillors.

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom which has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights.

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Presently led by Theresa May, it has been the governing party since 2010. It presently has 314 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 249 members of the House of Lords, and 18 members of the European Parliament. It also has 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 9,008 local councillors. One of the major parties of UK politics, it has formed the government on 45 occasions, more than any other party.

Summary of results

Camden Council election result 2018^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	43	3	0	+3	79.6	47.6	28,599	+4.6
Conservative	7	0	5	−5	13.0	20.5	12,332	−0.8
Liberal Democrat	3	2	0	+2	5.6	17.4	10,481	+1.8
Green	1	0	0	0	1.9	12.6	7,595	−3.4
Independent	0	0	0	0		1.2	968	+0.6
UKIP	0	0	0	0		0.2	103	−2.6
Democrats and Veterans	0	0	0	0		0.1	62	n/a

Ward Results

Belsize (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Tom Simon	1,250
	Conservative	Steve Adams	1,201
	Liberal Democrat	Luisa Porritt	1,179
	Conservative	Leila Roy	1,170
	Conservative	Kirsty Roberts	1,162
	Liberal Democrat	Ben Newman	1,127
	Labour	James Calmus	1,067
	Labour	Sucharita Sethi	996
	Labour	Momota Khatoon	971
	Green	Sara Katchi	238
	Green	Phyl Eyres	223
	Independent	Nigel Rumble	123
Turnout				42.48
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Bloomsbury (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Adam Harrison	1,045
	Labour	Sabrina Francis	983
	Labour	Rishi Madlani	931
	Conservative	Paul Tavares	365
	Conservative	Shahin Ahmed	334
	Conservative	Abdul Malique	330
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Margaret Headland	254
	Liberal Democrat	Aimery de Malet Roquefort	242
	Green	Jane-Eve Flora Straughton	226
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Percival George Wright	191
	Green	Robert McCracken	188
	Green	Juan Jimenez	183
Turnout				31.72
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Camden Town with Primrose Hill (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Pat Callaghan	1,936
	Labour	Richard Cotton	1,664
	Labour	Lazzaro Pietragnoli	1,570
	Conservative	Catherine McQueen	632
	Conservative	Peter Horne	602
	Conservative	Joel Roberts	573
	Liberal Democrat	John Lefley	457
	Green	Rik Howard	434
	Liberal Democrat	Anne Maria Wright	407
	Green	Mark Milaszkiewicz	384
	Liberal Democrat	Lawrence Joseph Nicholson	335
Turnout				34.86
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Cantelowes (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Angela Mason	1,829
	Labour	Danny Beales	1,780
	Labour	Ranjit Singh	1,503
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Wakefield Hays	804
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher William Hattam	488
	Green	Fran Bury	449
	Liberal Democrat	Max Karasinski	442
	Green	Catherine Anee Keshishian	435
	Green	Trevor O'Farrell	301
	Conservative	Ben Tansey	276
	Conservative	Robert Fox	270
	Conservative	Alexi Susiluoto	240
Turnout				36.19
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Fortune Green (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Flick Rea	1,496
	Labour Co-op	Lorna Russell	1,468
	Labour Co-op	Richard Olszewski	1,353
	Labour Co-op	Sorin Floti	1,326
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Bridge	1,209
	Liberal Democrat	Tracey Shackle	1,138
	Conservative	Phil Taylor	758
	Conservative	Shamim Ahmed	663
	Conservative	Axel Kaae	659
	Green	Helen Margaret Jack	378
Turnout				41.55
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Frognal & Fitzjohns (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Henry Newman	1,631
	Conservative	Andrew Parkinson	1,621
	Conservative	Gio Spinella	1,595
	Labour	Rebecca Shirazi	846
	Labour	Richard Chadwick	838
	Labour	Gail McAnena Wood	776
	Liberal Democrat	Anne Ward	438
	Liberal Democrat	Valdir Francisco	366
	Liberal Democrat	Shashank Krishna	358
	Green	Charles Hilary Harris	234
	Green	Anton Humphrey	163
	Independent	Marx de Morais^{[lower-alpha 1]}	135
	Independent	Tara Patten^{[lower-alpha 1]}	128
	Independent	Stephen Cameron^{[lower-alpha 1]}	122
Turnout				41.74
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gospel Oak (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jenny Mulholland	1,502
	Labour	Marcus Boyland	1,442
	Labour	Larraine Revah	1,361
	Liberal Democrat	Judy Dixey	759
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Crosher	739
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Jonathan Kirk	603
	Green	Jane Walby	412
	Conservative	Will Blair	411
	Conservative	Cathleen Mainds	399
	Conservative	John Webber	350
	Green	Dominic Kendrick	292
Turnout				36.63
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hampstead Town (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stephen Stark	1,522
	Conservative	Oliver Cooper	1,455
	Conservative	Maria Higson	1,400
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Chung	1,247
	Labour	Sue Cullinan	898
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Haslem-Jones	879
	Liberal Democrat	Will Coles	826
	Labour	Sunny Mandich	811
	Labour	James Slater	799
	Green	Richard Bourn	243
	Green	Michael Pawlyn	175
	Green	Ramsay Short	135
Turnout				46.46
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Haverstock (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alison Kelly	1,814
	Labour	Abdul Quadir	1,653
	Labour	Abi Wood	1,606
	Liberal Democrat	Jill Eileen Fraser	661
	Liberal Democrat	Jack Francis Edmund Fleming	412
	Green	Pam Walker	401
	Liberal Democrat	Yannick Bultingaire	383
	Conservative	Daniel Ellis	354
	Conservative	Tom Ewins	321
	Green	Mike Sumner	317
	Conservative	Rahoul Bhansali	305
	Green	Mike Turner	241
Turnout				33.56
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Highgate (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Sian Berry	2,073
	Labour	Anna Wright	1,741
	Labour	Oliver Lewis	1,727
	Labour	Maddy Raman	1,530
	Green	Kirsten De Keyser	1,287
	Green	John Holmes	1,197
	Conservative	Simone Finn	663
	Conservative	Ben Seifert	501
	Conservative	Jim Ormiston	493
	Liberal Democrat	Helena Djurkovic	284
	Liberal Democrat	Henry William Windle Potts	248
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Raymond Pickthall	245
	Independent	Emily O'Mara	83
	Independent	Constantine Buhayer	48
Turnout				50.42
	Green hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn and Covent Garden (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook	1,716
	Labour	Sue Vincent	1,705
	Labour	Awale Olad	1,604
	Conservative	Alison Frost	544
	Conservative	Andrew Keep	497
	Conservative	Richard Merrin	446
	Green	Luke Dowding	419
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Naughtie	312
	Green	John Mason	291
	Liberal Democrat	Charlotte Berenice Clementine Wattebot O'Brien	257
	Liberal Democrat	Erich Wagner	216
Turnout				32.47
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Kentish Town (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Georgia Gould	2,376
	Labour	Jenny Headlam-Wells	2,310
	Labour	Meric Apak	2,238
	Green	Kelly Pawlyn	572
	Green	Dee Searle	568
	Green	Charley Greenwood	556
	Liberal Democrat	Margo Dale Miller	348
	Conservative	Mac Chapwell	345
	Conservative	Darryl Davies	339
	Liberal Democrat	Victor Hjort	324
	Liberal Democrat	Jill Newbrook	300
	Conservative	Shreena Patel	261
Turnout				37.49
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Kilburn (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Douglas Beattie	1,733
	Labour	Maryam Eslamdoust	1,722
	Labour	Thomas Gardiner	1,613
	Conservative	Harry Richardson	457
	Conservative	Georgina Stockley	433
	Conservative	Sanjoy Sen	416
	Liberal Democrat	James King	390
	Liberal Democrat	Janet Grauberg	385
	Liberal Democrat	Davi Kothari	268
	Green	Matthew Spencer	239
	Green	Carmen Mlagros Pilar Alcantara	230
	Green	Sarah Nicoll	225
Turnout				32.43
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

King's Cross (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jonathan Simpson	1,191
	Labour	Georgie Robertson	1,180
	Labour	Abdul Hai	1,130
	Green	Emma Barker	377
	Conservative	Robyn Gardner	281
	Conservative	Adam Lester	242
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Margaret Stanton Jones	239
	Conservative	Samuel Dyas	205
	Green	Nicola Ann Hart	198
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Johnson	174
	Liberal Democrat	Ekaterina Kirk	171
	Green	Les Levidow	157
	Democrats and Veterans	Robert Jason Connor	62
Turnout				29.72
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Regents Park (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Nadia Shah	1,803
	Labour	Heather Johnson	1,797
	Labour	Nasim Ali	1,783
	Conservative	Alexander Ellis	467
	Conservative	Chantelle De Villers	451
	Conservative	Carole Ricketts	428
	Independent	Steven Christofi	364
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Ann Jackson-Roberts	244
	Liberal Democrat	John Alexander Gordon	234
	Liberal Democrat	Surya Kumaravel	229
Turnout				31.68
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Pancras and Somers Town (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Samata Khatoon	2,611
	Labour	Roger Robinson	2,520
	Labour	Paul Tomlinson	2,460
	Green	Tina Swasey	341
	Conservative	David Allen	295
	Conservative	Doreen Bartlett	295
	Green	Mark Scantlebury	264
	Liberal Democrat	Kimberley Lauren Stansfield	251
	Conservative	Robert Lingard	243
	Liberal Democrat	Sarah Hoyle	230
	Liberal Democrat	James Maurice Barker	192
	UKIP	Oliver Dominic Ronald Butt	103
	UKIP	Christopher Cooke	84
	UKIP	Giles Game	82
Turnout				35.11
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Swiss Cottage (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Nayra Bello O'Shanahan	1,605
	Labour	Leo Cassarani	1,541
	Labour	Simon Pearson	1,417
	Conservative	Kate Fairhurst	1,324
	Conservative	Calvin Robinson	1,277
	Conservative	Don Williams	1,277
	Liberal Democrat	Scott Jeremy Benson	456
	Liberal Democrat	Kushal Bhimjiani	448
	Liberal Democrat	Nick Russell	388
	Green	Sheila Hayman	262
	Green	Brian Gascoigne	250
	Independent	Lina Hammouda^{[lower-alpha 1]}	36
	Independent	Peter Straker^{[lower-alpha 1]}	33
	Independent	Calvin Po^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24
Turnout				38.47
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

West Hampstead (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Nazma Rahman	1,390
	Labour	Shiva Tiwari	1,267
	Labour	Peter Taheri	1,260
	Conservative	David Brescia	940
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Fox	878
	Conservative	Sedef Akademir	819
	Liberal Democrat	Nancy Jirira	777
	Conservative	Mohammed Salim	739
	Liberal Democrat	Mukul Hira	723
	Green	Jane Elizabeth Milton	335
	Green	Helena Paul	290
	Green	David Robert Stansell	229
Turnout				37.97
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Footnotes

1 2 3 4 5 6 On a local ticket of 'Independents for the Movement', but appearing on the ballot paper without a party description.

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