2022 London local elections

Local government elections will take place in London on 5 May 2022, as part of the wider local elections in England.

2018 London local elections
5 May 2022
All 1,851 councillors on all 32 London boroughs
and 4 directly-elected mayors
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sadiq Khan Susan Hall Caroline Pidgeon
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats

All London borough councillor seats are up for election. Mayoral contest are planned to be held in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets. The previous London borough elections were in 2018.

Background

The previous borough council elections in May 2018 saw the London Labour Party achieve their best result in over 45 years, winning 44% of the vote, 1,128 councillors and control of 21 councils. This represented the party's second-best result in a London local election, only surpassed slightly by its 1971 total. The London Conservatives, lost 92 seats to finish with 508 councillors, its lowest-ever tally of seats in a London local election. The London Liberal Democrats won two councils from the Conservatives, the London Green Party won a total of 11 council seats and support for the UK Independence Party collapsed, with the party losing all of its seats.[1][2][3]

In the 2019 general election, there was no net change in the number of seats for each party, although several seats changed hand. The biggest changes in vote share were for Labour, who polled 48% but saw a fall of 6.5%, and the Liberal Democrats, who were up 6.1%, compared to the previous 2017 general election. In May 2021, the Mayor of London and the London Assembly will be elected.

There are discussions of referendums being held in some London boroughs about local governance. The mayors of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz and Tower Hamlets John Biggs announced they will have a local referendum's in May 2021 in their boroughs on whether to abolish the mayoral position and return to a leader and cabinet system or not.[4][5] Croydon council is discussing the possibility of a referendum on whether to adopt a mayor position.[6]

References
  1. Grafton-Green, Patrick; Chaplain, Chloe (5 May 2018). "The full list of results for London's local elections". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. Stewart, Heather; Walker, Peter (5 May 2018). "Local elections: neither Corbyn nor May able to break poll deadlock". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  3. James, William (4 May 2018). "May avoids London wipeout in local elections". Reuters. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. Hill, Dave (25 September 2020). "Newham: Mayor confirms wish for governance referendum in May as rivals' petition ruled invalid". OnLondon. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  5. Burford, Rachael (11 November 2020). "Referendum to scrap Tower Hamlets mayor post will be held next year". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  6. Hill, Dave (21 September 2020). "Croydon: Referendum on changing to mayoral system cannot take place next May, council leader says". OnLondon. Retrieved 20 December 2020.


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