2022 Westminster City Council election

2022 Westminster Council election

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All 54 council seats of the Westminster City Council 28 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Adam Hug Rachael Robathan Party Labour Conservative Last election 19 seats, 41.1% 41 seats, 42.8% Seats won 31 23 Seat change 12 18 Popular vote 58,395 49,067 Percentage 48.0% 40.3 Swing 6.9pp 2.5pp
2022 Westminster Borough Council election results map with 2022 wards
council control before election Conservative Subsequent council control Labour

The 2022 Westminster City Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 54 members of Westminster City Council have been elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

In the previous election in 2018, the Conservative Party had maintained their longstanding control of the council, winning 41 out of the 60 seats with the Labour Party forming the council opposition with the remaining 19 seats. However, Labour managed to win an 8-seat council majority for the first time since the formation of the modern city in 1964. ^[1] The 2022 election took place under new election boundaries, reducing the number of councillors to 54.

Background

History

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 of the powers are shared with the Greater London Authority, which also manages passenger transport, police, and fire. ^[2]

Westminster City Council had continuously been under Conservative Party control since its establishment. In the most recent election in 2018, Westminster was considered a key target for Labour in London. ^[3] The Conservatives won the election, with 41 seats on 42.8% of the vote across the borough while Labour won 19 seats with 41.1% of the vote. ^[4]

Council term

The Conservative councillor Robert Davis, who represented Lancaster Gate and had served on the council since 1982, resigned after an investigation into his conduct found that he broke the councillors' code of conduct for receiving a large number of gifts and hospitality from property developers. ^[5] The 22 November 2018 by-election was held for the Conservatives by Margot Bright with the Labour candidate coming in second place. ^[6] In March 2021, Andrea Mann, a Labour councillor for Churchill ward, resigned for family reasons. ^[7] The by-election to fill the seat was held on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 London mayoral election and London Assembly election. The Labour candidate Liza Begum won, with an increased majority compared to the 2018 election. ^[8]

Along with most London boroughs, this election occurred under new ward boundaries. Following local consultation, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries, reducing the number of councillors from 60 to 54 across eighteen three-councillor wards. ^[9]

Campaign

The Conservative peer Robert Hayward listed Westminster as one of four Conservative councils in London that his party risked losing control of in the wake of the partygate scandal. The concentration of Labour voters in a small number of wards means that relatively few seats in the borough are marginal. ^[10] Labour criticised the Conservative council for the Marble Arch Mound's cost, which had led to the resignation of the council's deputy leader Melvyn Caplan. ^{[10] [11]} Fitzrovia News wrote that the new West End ward would be competitive between Labour and the Conservatives, with Labour having won one of the three seats on previous boundaries. ^[12]

Electoral process

Westminster, as with all other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years, with the previous election having taken place in 2018. At the same time elections were held for the 12 seats of Queen's Park Community Council, the Parish council in the north west of the city, with these being administered by the Returning Officer at the City Council and both elections were counted together overnight.

The elections took place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by three councillors. Electors have as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top being elected.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in London aged 18 or over were 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, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. ^[13] Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election. ^[13]

Previous council composition

• 
  Councillors after the 2018 election
• 
  Councillors ahead of the 2022 election

After 2018 election			Before 2022 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Conservative	41		Conservative	41
	Labour	19		Labour	19

Results summary

2022 Westminster City Council election

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	31	12	0	12	58.5	48.0	58,395	+6.9
	Conservative	23	0	12	18	41.5	40.3	49,067	-2.5
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0		0.0	10.8	13,153	+1.4
	Green	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	930	-3.4
	Independent	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	124	-0.2

Ward results

Candidates seeking re-election are marked with an asterisk (*). Councillors seeking re-election for a different ward are marked with a cross (†). ^[14]

Abbey Road

Abbey Road (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amanda Lilian Langford	1,241	50.6
	Conservative	Caroline Emma Sargent	1,199	48.9
	Conservative	Alan Laurence Mendoza	1,193	48.6
	Labour	Sarah Katharine Hanson	803	32.7
	Labour	James Robert Evans	770	31.4
	Labour	Sheyda Monshizadeh-Azar	702	28.6
	Liberal Democrats	Trish Griffiths	367	15.0
	Green	Cristian Dinu	311	12.7
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Robert Paul Gunness	231	9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Seth Barney Weisz	204	8.3
Turnout			2,454	31.58
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bayswater

Bayswater (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maggie Carman*	1,618	60.1	+20.5
	Labour	Max Sullivan	1,481	55.0	+19.3
	Labour	James Small-Edwards	1,476	54.8	+21.7
	Conservative	Anna Askew	910	33.8	-5.6
	Conservative	Iain James Bott†	875	32.5	-6.9
	Conservative	Henry Graham Cornelius Shelford	792	29.4	-7.1
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Andrew Caizley	276	10.3	-10.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Caroline Grantham Smithard	266	9.9	-9.9
	Liberal Democrats	Nathalie Ubilava	219	8.1	-9.4
Turnout			2,692	33.80	-5.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Church Street

Church Street (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Aicha Less*	1,303	70.6
	Labour	Matt Noble*	1,249	67.7
	Labour	Abdul Aziz Toki*	1,219	66.1
	Conservative	Blessings Kaseke	347	18.8
	Conservative	Amarjeet Singh Johal	318	17.2
	Conservative	Jaime Law	308	16.7	+2.0
	Liberal Democrats	William Dunbar	143	7.8
	Liberal Democrats	Rachael Georgina Jagger	142	7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Ryan	139	7.5
Turnout			1,845	25.85
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Harrow Road

Harrow Road (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruth Bush*	1,524	72.7
	Labour	Concia Albert	1,492	71.2
	Labour	Tim Roca*	1,444	68.9
	Conservative	Helen Hope Lambert	381	18.2
	Conservative	Tom Haynes	362	17.3
	Conservative	Sam Parr	328	15.7
	Liberal Democrats	Will Baynes	219	10.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sharan Tabari	179	8.5
Turnout			2,095	27.65
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hyde Park

Hyde Park (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Md Shamsed Chowdhury	804	44.7	+13.0
	Labour	Paul Howard Dimoldenberg†	780	43.4	+12.2
	Labour	Judith Anne Southern	774	43.0	+15.2
	Conservative	Heather Acton*	758	42.1	-12.6
	Conservative	Antonia Mary Cox*	709	39.4	-15.2
	Conservative	Zaheed Nizar	659	36.6	-9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Gonzales Ryan	249	13.8	+1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Donaldson Byrne	240	13.3	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Raked Yaghi	165	9.2	-0.3
Turnout			1,799	29.51	-1.79
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Knightsbridge & Belgravia

Knightsbridge & Belgravia (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Suzanne Hitchcock*	1,263	62.7	-15.9
	Conservative	Rachael Robathan*	1,244	61.8	-15.4
	Conservative	Tony Devenish*	1,243	61.7	-17.7
	Labour	Simon Robert Horbury	486	24.1	+13.8
	Labour	Andrew David Silverman	438	21.8	+11.5
	Labour	Guthrie Kerr McKie†	430	21.4	+12.3
	Liberal Democrats	Rosamund Durnford-Slater	349	17.3	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Johnstone Pyatt	280	13.9	+5.4
Turnout			2,013	29.15	-5.35
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lancaster Gate

Lancaster Gate (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Laila Dupuy	1,110	44.1	-2.8
	Labour	Ellie Ormsby	1,057	42.0	+4.8
	Labour	Ryan Bernard Jude	1,053	41.8	+5.5
	Conservative	Margot Joan Bright	1,051	41.8	-4.4
	Labour	Dario Nelson Goodwin	1,031	41.0	+9.0
	Conservative	Philip John Stephenson-Oliver	980	38.9	-7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Mary Baring	319	12.7	-4.4
	Green	Kathy Hughes	303	12.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Benjamin John Hurdis	182	7.2	-6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Thierry Haim David Serero	159	6.3	-5.7
Turnout			2,517	35.76	-2.34
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Little Venice

Little Venice (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lorraine Dean*	1,140	46.2	-2.3
	Conservative	Melvyn Bernard Caplan*	1,136	46.0	-4.2
	Labour	Sara Hassan	1,104	44.8	+4.7
	Conservative	Matthew Charles Green*	1,088	44.1	-2.0
	Labour	Rosie Wrighting	1,071	43.4	+4.3
	Labour	Murad Qureshi	1,053	42.7	+4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Marianne Magnin	231	9.4	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Nigel Stokes	196	7.9	-1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Bahram Alimoradian	161	6.5	-2.5
Turnout			2,467	37.58	-6.72
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Maida Vale

Maida Vale (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Geoffrey Mark Barraclough*	1,590	62.5	+14.6
	Labour	Nafsika Butler-Thalassis*	1,531	60.2	+14.2
	Labour	Iman Less	1,411	55.5	+7.7
	Conservative	Jan Prendergast	833	32.8	-11.1
	Conservative	Mohammed Janal	719	28.3	-11.1
	Conservative	Iheoma Oteh	689	27.1	-12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Harriet Elizabeth Sergeant	247	9.7	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	James Joshua Nisbet	168	6.6	+0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Howard Toeman	139	5.5	-0.3
Turnout			2,543	34.02	-6.78
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Marylebone

Marylebone (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Rowley*	1,186	45.6
	Conservative	Barbara Arzymanow	1,154	44.4
	Conservative	Karen Scarborough*	1,146	44.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Barr	866	33.3
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Botsford	785	30.2
	Liberal Democrats	Freddie Poser	645	24.8
	Labour	Barbara Johnston	583	22.4
	Labour	Jo Broadey	581	22.3
	Labour	Michael Lord	546	21.0
Turnout			2,602	32.06
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Pimlico North

Pimlico North is a new ward that was formed from multiple old wards. There is no previous result to compare to.

Pimlico North (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacqui Wilkinson†	1,366	49.9
	Conservative	Jim Glen†	1,327	48.4
	Conservative	Ed Pitt Ford	1,263	46.1
	Labour	Paul Derek Heasman	1,024	37.4
	Labour	Sir Peter Heap	1,021	37.3
	Labour	Eric Edward Robinson	881	32.2
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Coleman	478	17.4
	Liberal Democrats	Sophie Alice Louisa Service	382	13.9
Turnout			2,740	34.91
	Conservative gain from		Swing
	Conservative gain from		Swing
	Conservative gain from		Swing

Pimlico South

Pimlico South is a new ward that was formed from multiple old wards. There is no previous result to compare to.

Pimlico South (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liza Begum	1,516	49.5
	Labour	Robert William Eagleton	1,426	46.6
	Labour	Jason Thomas Williams	1,350	44.1
	Conservative	James Michael Spencer†	1,271	41.5
	Conservative	Murad Gassanly	1,268	41.4
	Conservative	Greg Conary	1,252	40.9
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel John Poole	252	8.2
	Liberal Democrats	Omar Hegazi	216	7.1
	Liberal Democrats	Vikas Aggarwal	207	6.8
Turnout			3,062	41.16
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Queen's Park

Queen's Park (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia McAllister*	1,691	76.6
	Labour	Cara Sanquest	1,568	71.0
	Labour	Hamza Taouzzale*	1,523	69.0
	Conservative	Hannah Rebecca Galley	380	17.2
	Conservative	Bota Hopkinson	315	14.3
	Conservative	Emma Ralph Sargent	334	15.1
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Toeman	189	8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Cato Dykstra-McCarthy	143	6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Kati Tschawow	113	5.1
Turnout			2,207	26.61
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Regent's Park

Regent's Park (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Charles Rigby*	1,140	51.3
	Conservative	Paul Swaddle*	1,097	49.4
	Conservative	Ralu Oteh-Osoka	1,059	47.7
	Labour	Md Azizul Haque	696	31.3
	Labour	Kian David Richardson	685	30.8
	Labour	Connor Whittam	653	29.4
	Green	Vivien Aviva Lichtenstein	316	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	Kathryn Hertel Kerle	308	13.9
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Philip Rowe	204	9.2
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Mark Sims	179	8.1
Turnout			2,221	29.73
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St James's

St James's (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louise Hyams*	979	48.0
	Conservative	Tim Mitchell*	965	47.3
	Conservative	Mark Shearer*	954	46.7
	Labour	Karina Darbin	789	38.7
	Labour	Paul Raphael James Spence	701	34.3
	Labour	Nigel Stephen Medforth	700	34.3
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Anthony Ahearne	295	14.5
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Diggory	281	13.8
	Liberal Democrats	Alice Anne Wells	249	13.8
Turnout			2,041	29.63
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Vincent Square

Vincent Square (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Harvey*	1,377	46.3
	Labour	Gillian Sharon Arrindell	1,324	44.5
	Conservative	Selina Ann Short*	1,305	43.8
	Conservative	Martin Patrick Hayes	1,297	43.6
	Labour	David Anthony Parton	1,232	41.4
	Labour	Ananthi Paskaralingam	1,155	38.8
	Liberal Democrats	Francesca Rebecca Gonshaw	371	12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Lindsay Kerle	271	9.1
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Lindsay Wood	269	9.0
Turnout			2,977	39.22
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

West End

West End (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Edward Fisher	1,158	49.3	+6.4
	Labour	Jessica Jade Toale	1,111	47.3	+6.9
	Labour	Patrick Eamon Joseph Lilley	1,111	47.3	+6.0
	Conservative	Tim Barnes*	961	40.9	-2.3
	Conservative	Julie Ann Redmond	923	39.3	-3.2
	Conservative	Eoghain Leo Murphy†	913	38.9	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Sophie Amanda Taylor	264	11.2	+3.4
	Liberal Democrats	George Coelho	207	8.8	+2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jonah Louis Weisz	158	6.7	+1.2
Turnout			2,349	31.50	+0.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Westbourne

Westbourne (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Boothroyd*	1,277	70.7
	Labour	Angela Patricia Piddock	1,206	66.7
	Labour	Adam John Walsworth Hug*	1,193	66.0
	Conservative	Jack Berry	341	18.9
	Conservative	Louise Marie Parry	318	17.6
	Conservative	Thomas Jasper Gwyndaf Davies	300	16.6
	Liberal Democrats	Selina St Clair Mills	149	8.2
	No Description	Abby-Jan Mohamed Dharamsey	124	6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Ritchie Coomes	118	6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Wright	84	4.6
Turnout			1807	24.33
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• 2022 Queen's Park Community Council election, held the same day

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