2022 London local elections

2022 London local elections

← 2018 5 May 2022 2026 →
All 1,817 councillors on all 32 London boroughs, and 5 directly-elected mayors
First party Second party   Leader Sadiq Khan Susan Hall Party Labour Conservative Last election 1,128 seats, 43.9% 508 seats, 28.8%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Caroline Pidgeon Caroline Russell Party Liberal Democrats Green Last election 152 seats, 13.0% 11 seats, 8.6%

The 2022 London local elections are due to take place on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections. All London borough councillor seats will be up for election. Mayoral elections are also due to take placed in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets, with Croydon electing a mayor for the first time following a local referendum in October 2021.

The previous elections in 2018 resulted in the best outcome for the Labour Party since 1971, while the Conservatives won their lowest number of seats in any local elections in London.

Background[]

Results of the 2018 London local elections by ward

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 Paty 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 hands. The biggest changes in vote share were for Labour, who received 48% of the vote across the city but saw a fall of 6.5 percentage points, and the Liberal Democrats, who were up 6.1 percentage points compared to the previous 2017 general election.

Newham and Tower Hamlets, held local referendums in May 2021 on whether to abolish their mayoral positions and return to a leader and cabinet system.^[4][5][6] Both resulted in voters choosing to retain the mayoral model.^[7] In the same month, the Labour candidate Sadiq Khan was re-elected as the mayor of London, and the 2021 London Assembly election resulted in small gains for the Conservatives, Green Party and Liberal Democrats at the expense of Labour and the UK Independence Party. Croydon Council held a referendum on 7 October 2021 on whether to adopt a mayor position.^[8][6] The result was to change to the mayoral system, with the first mayor being due to be elected alongside the council election in 2022.^[9]

Twenty-five of the thirty-two boroughs will be electing councillors under new ward boundaries following reviews by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.^[10]

Campaign[]

In January 2022, the Conservative peer Robert Hayward said that in the wake of the Westminster lockdown parties controversy, his party risked losing control of Wandsworth, Westminster, Barnet and Hillingdon London Borough Councils.^[11]

Councils[]

Mayors[]

See also[]

• 2022 City of London Corporation election

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