2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election

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 & Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.

Map of the results of the 2014 Tower Hamlets council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Tower Hamlets First in light red.

As of 6 March 2017 the composition of the Borough Council was: 22 Labour, 9 Independent Group Councillors, 5 Peoples Alliance of Tower Hamlets, 5 Conservatives, 3 Independents and 1 Liberal Democrat.[1]

Reduction in council size

The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 reduced the size of the Council and created new electoral wards.[2]

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England began the process of changing the size of Tower Hamlets Council in 2012.[3] The new wards for the elections in 2014 are as follows.

Electoral wards in Tower Hamlets, 2014
Ward	Number of councillors
Bethnal Green	3
Blackwall and Cubitt Town	3
Bow East	3
Bow West	2
Bromley North	2
Bromley South	2
Canary Wharf	2
Island Gardens	2
Lansbury	3
Limehouse	1
Mile End	3
Poplar	1
Shadwell	2
Spitalfields and Banglatown	2
St Dunstan's	2
St Katharine's and Wapping	2
St Peter's	3
Stepney Green	2
Weavers	2
Whitechapel	3

Results by ward

Bethnal Green (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Amy Gibbs	2,911	17.1
Labour	Sirajul Islam	2,292	13.5
Tower Hamlets First	Shafiqul Haque	2,048	12.0
Labour	Abdirashid Gulaid	2,038	12.0
Tower Hamlets First	Babu Chowdhury	1,792	10.5
Tower Hamlets First	Salim Ullah	1,652	9.7
Green	Chris Thorne	1,362	8.0
Liberal Democrats	Kamrun Shajahan	629	3.7
UKIP	Lubov Zsikhotska	622	3.6
Conservative	Alan Mak	460	2.7
Conservative	Meera Amrish Patel	330	1.9
TUSC	Ellen Kenyon Peers	327	1.9
TUSC	Clive Heemskerk	254	1.5
Conservative	Taz Kha'lique	238	1.4

2014–2018 by-elections

A by-election for the ward of Stepney Green was held on 11 June 2015, after the sitting councillor, Alibor Choudhury, was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by an election court.[4]

Stepney Green by-election 11 June 2015[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sabina Akhtar	1,643	42.1	9.9
	Independent	Abu Chowdhury	1,472	37.7	13.0
	Green	Kirsty Chestnutt	272	6.9	1.6
	UKIP	Paul Shea	203	5.2	0.3
	Conservative	Safiul Azam	158	4.0	0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Will Dyer	114	2.9	1.0
	Something New	Jessie Macneil-Brown	40	1.0
Majority			171	4.4
Turnout			3,902	47.4
	Labour gain from Tower Hamlets First		Swing

A by-election for the ward of Whitechapel was held on 2 December 2016, after the sitting councillor, Shahed Ali, was found guilty of housing fraud. Another independent candidate, Ahmed Shafi, won the seat.[6][7]

Whitechapel by-election 2 December 2016[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shafi Ahmed	1,147	44.7
	Labour	Victoria Obaze	823	32.1	2.5
	Conservative	William Fletcher	217	8.5	0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Emanuel Andejelic	173	6.7	3.9
	Green	James Wilson	170	6.6	1.0
	UKIP	Paul Shea	34	1.3	0.3
Majority			324
Turnout			2,564	24.5
	Independent hold		Swing

Results

Mayor

Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election 22 May 2014 (result since declared void by an election court) [9]
Party		Candidate	1st round		2nd round			First round votes Transfer votes
Party		Candidate	Total	Of round	Transfers	Total	Of round	First round votes Transfer votes
	Tower Hamlets First	Lutfur Rahman	36,539	43.4%	856	37,395	44.4%
	Labour	John Biggs	27,643	32.8%	6,500	34,143	40.5%
	Conservative	Christopher Wilford	7,173	8.5%
	UKIP	Nicholas M^cQueen	4,819	5.7%
	Green	Chris Smith	4,699	5.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Reetendra Banerji	1,959	2.3%
	TUSC	Hugo Pierre	871	1.0%
	Independent	Reza Choudhury	205	0.2%
	Independent	Mohammed Khan	164	0.2%
	Independent	Hafiz Kadir	162	0.2%
Turnout			86,540	47.6%	Rejected ballots: 2,306
Registered electors			181,871
Void election result

Council

Party	Seats won	Percentage of votes
Labour Party	22	38.6
Tower Hamlets First	18	34.9
Conservative Party	5	12.1
Total	45
Source: Tower Hamlets Council

References

"Mayor and Councillors by Party". towerhamlets.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
Order Legislation.gov
Tower Hamlets FER Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine LGBCE
Tower Hamlets election fraud mayor Lutfur Rahman removed from office, BBC News, 23 April 2015
"Stepney Green - Thursday, 11th June, 2015". Tower Hamlets Council. 12 June 2015. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
Mike Brooke (27 October 2016). "Tower Hamlets councillor jailed for housing tenancy fraud while owning properties". East London Advertiser. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
Mike Brooke (2 December 2016). "Shock defeat for Labour as independent 'novice' wins Tower Hamlets by-election at Whitechapel". East London Advertiser. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
"Whitechapel - Thursday, 1st December, 2016". Tower Hamlets Council. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
"Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets Council. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.

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[1] "Mayor and Councillors by Party". towerhamlets.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.

[2] Order Legislation.gov

[3] Tower Hamlets FER Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine LGBCE

[4] Tower Hamlets election fraud mayor Lutfur Rahman removed from office, BBC News, 23 April 2015

[5] "Stepney Green - Thursday, 11th June, 2015". Tower Hamlets Council. 12 June 2015. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.

[ela-20161027-6] Mike Brooke (27 October 2016). "Tower Hamlets councillor jailed for housing tenancy fraud while owning properties". East London Advertiser. Retrieved 2 December 2016.

[ela-20161202-7] Mike Brooke (2 December 2016). "Shock defeat for Labour as independent 'novice' wins Tower Hamlets by-election at Whitechapel". East London Advertiser. Retrieved 2 December 2016.

[8] "Whitechapel - Thursday, 1st December, 2016". Tower Hamlets Council. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

[9] "Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets Council. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.

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