City of London Corporation election, 2017

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City of London Corporation election, 2017
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  2013 23 March 20172021 

100 seats to the Court of Common Council
51 seats needed for a majority

  First party Second party Third party
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Party Independent Temple & Farringdon Together Labour
Last election 100 seats, 96% [1] Did not stand 0 seats, 4%
Seats before 99 0 1
Seats won85 10 5
Seat changeDecrease2.svg15Increase2.svg10Increase2.svg4
Popular vote14,587 4,131 1,328
Percentage72.8% 20.6% 6.6%
SwingDecrease2.svg23.8%New partyIncrease2.svg 2.5%

City of London Corporation election, 2017.svg

Results by ward. Red represents Labour. Blue represents Temple & Farringdon Together. Grey represents Independents. Wards coloured dark grey did not hold contests.

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

No overall control

The 2017 City of London Corporation election took place on 23 March 2017 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. [2] These elections take place every four years. [3] As in the previous election, the vast majority of Council members were elected as independents.

The Court of Common Council is the primary decision-making body of the City of London Corporation. It meets nine times per year. Most of its work is carried out by committees. Elections are held at least every four years. It is largely composed of independent members although the number of Labour Party Common Councilmen in 2017 grew to five out of a total of 100. In October 2018, the Labour Party gained its sixth seat on the Common Council with a by-election victory in Castle Baynard ward.

City of London Corporation municipal corporation of City of London

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom's financial sector.

The City of London Corporation elections occur regularly to provide the elected representatives who run the City of London Corporation.

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In the 2013 election, all hundred seats were won by independent candidates. [1] In 2017, fifteen of the hundred seats on the Council were won by political parties: the newly created Temple & Farringdon Together party [4] [5] [2] and the Labour Party.

The elections attracted media attention [6] as they represented a high point in the City for Labour, who until the 2017 election had only ever won a single seat in a 2014 by-election for Portsoken ward. [7]

26 councillors were elected unopposed: twenty-five independents and one Labour.

Overall result

City of London Corporation Election, 2017 [2]
Party Seats Votes
Count Gains Losses Net Of total (%) Of total (%) Count Change
  Independent 85 0 15−15 85.0 72.8 14,587−23.8
 Temple & Farringdon Together 10 10 0+10 10.0 20.6 4,131+20.6
  Labour 5 5 0+5 5.0 6.6 1,328+2.5
Total 100

Ward results

Cordwainer Ward [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Alex Barr 9232
Independent Michael Snyder 7928
Independent Mark Boleat 7727
Independent Gillian Kaile 21 7
Independent Timothy Becker 15 5
Turnout 284
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Portsoken Ward [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Jason Paul Pritchard23020.03
Labour Mansur Ali21018.29
Independent John William Fletcher19717.16
Independent Henry Llewellyn Michael Jones 18716.29
Independent Ayesha Azad 153 13.33
Independent Asif Sadiq 111 9.67
Independent David James Barker 60 5.23
Turnout 1148 50.7
Labour hold
Labour gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold

Changes since the election

By-elections

A by-election was held in Bishopsgate ward on 20 March 2018, following the election of independent Common Councilman Prem Goyal as Alderman for Portsoken ward in December 2017. [10] The seat was won by independent Shravan Joshi. [11]

A by-election was held in Billingsgate ward on 22 March 2018, following the resignation of independent Common Councilman Michael Welbank. [12] The seat was won by independent John Allen-Petrie. [13]

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