The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough in London,England. Situated on the north bank of the River Thames and immediately east of the City of London,the borough spans much of the traditional East End of London and includes much of the regenerated London Docklands area. The 2019 mid-year population for the borough is estimated at 324,745.
Bethnal Green and Bow was a constituency in Greater London,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2010 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Rushanara Ali of the Labour Party.
Poplar and Limehouse is a constituency which was first created in 2010. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Apsana Begum,who was elected as a Labour Party MP. However,the whip was withdrawn on 23 July 2024,as a result of her voting to scrap the two child benefit cap,and she was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party. Begum now sits as an Independent MP until the whip is re-established.
City and East is a constituency represented in the London Assembly. Created in 2000 it is represented by Unmesh Desai,of the Labour Party.
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council,the local authority for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,is elected every four years.
Lambeth London Borough Council,which styles itself Lambeth Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of the 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2006. The council meets at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton and has its main offices at the nearby Civic Centre.
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council,also known as Tower Hamlets Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under the majority control of local party Aspire since 2022. It has been led by a directly elected mayor since 2010. The council is based at Tower Hamlets Town Hall on Whitechapel Road.
Yvonne Helen Fovargue is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield from 2010 to 2024.
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council in east London,England. The first election for this position occurred on 21 October 2010,taking on the executive function of the borough council. The position is different from the previous largely ceremonial,annually appointed mayors of Tower Hamlets,who became known as the 'Chair of Council' after the first election and are now known as the 'Speaker of Council'. The second election was held on 22 May 2014,the same day as the Tower Hamlets Council election,other United Kingdom local elections,and European Parliament elections,but the election result was declared void by the election court. A by-election was held on 11 June 2015.
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council took place on 22 May 2014,the same day as other United Kingdom local elections,the election of the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets,and the European Parliament elections. Voting in Blackwall and Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate. The Mayoral election is particularly notable for the voiding of the result due to widespread corruption.
There were local government elections in London on Thursday 22 May 2014. All councillor seats on the 32 London borough councils were up for election. The electorates of Hackney,Lewisham,Newham and Tower Hamlets also elected their executive mayors,who operate in place of council leaders in those boroughs. Ward changes took place in Hackney,Kensington and Chelsea,and Tower Hamlets,which reduced the total number of councillors by 10 to 1,851. Both the mayoral and councillor elections are four-yearly.
Ruth Margaret Cadbury is a British politician and planner who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth since 2015. A member of the Labour Party,she was a Member of Hounslow Council from 1986 to 2015 and Deputy Leader of the Council from 2010 to 2012.
Emma Dent Coad is a British architectural historian and politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington from 2017 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,she has been a member of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council since 2006. She resigned her Labour membership on 27 April 2023,but remains on the local council as an independent.
Aspire is a local political party in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,England,formed by Lutfur Rahman and councillors elected as members of his Tower Hamlets First party. After Tower Hamlets First was removed from the register of political parties following voting fraud and malpractice,its councillors formed the Tower Hamlets Independent Group (THIG). After some defections,the remaining Tower Hamlets Independent Group councillors registered formally as a political party in 2018. Most of its elected members were former Labour Party members,with a few exceptions.
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were held on 3 May 2018,the same day as other borough council elections in London. The directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets was also up for election.
Feryal Demirci Clark is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North since 2019. She has also served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government since July 2024.
The 2022 Barnet London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022,alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. All 63 members of Barnet London Borough Council were elected. The Labour Party took overall control,winning 41 of the seats to the Conservative Party's 22. This was the first time Labour had won the council outright;previously,the Conservatives had always won the most seats,usually with an overall majority.
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.
Stratford and Bow is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,it was first contested at the 2024 general election. It is currently represented in Parliament by Uma Kumaran of the Labour Party,who has served as MP since 2024..
Bow East is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The ward was first used in the 2002 elections. It returns three councillors to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.
