2013 City of London Corporation election

The 2013 City of London Corporation election took place on 21 March 2013 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England.[1] These elections take place every four years.[2] As in the previous election, the vast majority of Council members were elected as independents.

21 March 2013

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

	First party

Party	Independent
Last election	100 seats, 94.5%
Seats before	100
Seats won	100
Seat change
Popular vote	19,443
Percentage	95.9%
Swing	1.4%

Results by ward. Red represents Labour. 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

All 100 seats were won by independent candidates[3]

Overall result

City of London Corporation Election, 2017[4]
Party		Seats					Votes
Party		Count	Gains	Losses	Net	Of total (%)	Of total (%)	Count	Change
	Independent	100	0	0		100.0	95.9	19,443	+1.4
	Labour	0	0	0		0.0	4.1	832	-1.4
Total		100

By-elections

In a subsequent by-election in the Portsoken ward in 2014 the Labour party won its first ever councillor in the Corporation: William Campbell-Taylor, an Anglican priest who had campaigned for higher ethical standards in the City.[5]

Portsoken by-election, March 2014[6][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Campbell-Taylor	137	36.8
	Independent	Marie Brockington	98	26.3
	Independent	Evan Millner	47	12.6
	Independent	Syed Mahmood	44	11.8
	Independent	Roger Jones	26	7.0
	Independent	André Walker	11	3.0
	Independent	Muhammad Al-Hussaini	9	2.4
Majority			39	10.5
Turnout			372	43.26
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

References

"Notice of Results: City of London Corporation" (PDF). www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
"Ward elections - City of London". www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. City of London Corporations. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
"City of London Corporation, 2013". EnglishElections. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017.
"Results - About the City - City of London". www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
"Labour win raises questions on City of London's independence". Financial Times. 21 March 2014.
EnglishElections: Portsoken, 2014
City of London Labour Party - NEWS RELEASE - Labour wins first ever seat on City of London Common Council - 20 March 2014

Council elections in Greater London
Barking and Dagenham	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Barnet	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Bexley	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Brent	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Bromley	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Camden	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
City	2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Croydon	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Ealing	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Enfield	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Greenwich	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Hackney	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Hammersmith and Fulham	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Haringey	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Harrow	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Havering	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Hillingdon	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Hounslow	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Islington	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Kensington and Chelsea	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Kingston upon Thames	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Lambeth	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Lewisham	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Merton	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Newham	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Redbridge	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Richmond upon Thames	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Southwark	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Sutton	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Tower Hamlets	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Waltham Forest	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Wandsworth	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Westminster	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Greater London	1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981
See also: London-wide elections Wards Boundary changes

(2012 ←)

2013 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2014)

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Other English councils

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Isle of Anglesey

Elections in Anglesey were due on 3 May 2012, but were postponed one year by the Welsh Government.

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