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2022 local election in Wandsworth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2022 Wandsworth London Borough Council elections took place on 5 May 2022.
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Results of the 2022 Wandsworth London Borough council election. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 58 members of Wandsworth London Borough Council were 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 maintained their longstanding control of the council, winning 33 out of the 60 seats with the Labour Party forming the principal opposition with 26 of the remaining 27 seats. The 2022 election took place under new election boundaries, which reduced the number of councillors to 58. Labour won control for the first time since 1978.
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.[1]
Wandsworth was alternately under Labour and Conservative control in the elections after its creation, and subsequently has been under Conservative control since the 1978 election. In the most recent election in 2018, the council was considered a key target for Labour in London.[2][3] The Conservatives held the council, winning 33 seats with 38.3% of the vote, while Labour won 26 seats with 38.7% of the vote. The independent candidate Malcolm Grimston was also elected.[4][5]
Candida Jones, a Labour councillor for Furzedown, resigned in 2019 due to taking a politically restricted job. Graham Loveland held the seat for Labour in the subsequent by-election, with the Liberal Democrats increasing their share of the vote to come in second place.[6] A Labour councillor for Bedford ward, Fleur Anderson, resigned in April 2021 having been elected as MP for Putney in the 2019 general election.[7] A by-election to fill the seat was held on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 London mayoral election and London Assembly election, which was won by the Labour candidate Hannah Stanislaus.[8] In August 2021, Stanislaus resigned from the Labour Party to sit as independent, saying that they had "been bullied out" and that the party whip had made a personal attack against them in a report.[9] They later resigned as a councillor, with a by-election held on 25 November. The Labour candidate Sheila Boswell held it for the party with a majority of a single vote over the Conservative candidate.[10]
Along with most London boroughs, Wandsworth was electing councillors under new ward boundaries in 2022.[11] Following local consultation, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries reducing the number of councillors from 60 to 58 across fourteen three-councillor wards and eight two-seat wards.[12]
The Conservative peer Robert Hayward said that his party was "almost certain" to lose control of the borough in the wake of the partygate scandal.[13] At the 2019 general election, all the constituencies that cover the borough were represented by Labour MPs.[14] Nick Bowes, the chief executive of the Centre for London, highlighted that the mayor of London Sadiq Khan had won a majority of wards in the borough in the 2021 London mayoral election.[15]
Extinction Rebellion campaigners disrupted the launch of the Conservative campaign at a luxury car dealership.[16] The Labour Party promised to build a thousand "new council homes on council land" if they won.[17] The Labour councillor Peter Carpenter was suspended and blocked from standing for re-election by his party in March 2022 for posting on Twitter that the Conservative chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak should "go back to India".[18]
Wandsworth, 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. The election took place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors. Electors had as many votes as there were councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three 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 lived 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.[19] 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.[19]
After 2018 election | Before 2022 election | After 2022 election | ||||||
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Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
Conservative | 33 | Conservative | 33 | Labour | 35 | |||
Labour | 26 | Labour | 26 | Conservative | 22 | |||
Independent | 1 | Independent | 1 | Independent | 1 |
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 35 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 60.3 | 46.3 | 112,575 | +7.6 | |
Conservative | 22 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 37.9 | 38.0 | 92,566 | -0.3 | |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 3,795 | -2.1 | ||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 18,546 | -0.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 15,599 | -2.1 | ||
TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 218 | New |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Lynsey Hedges | 2,284 | 43.5 | |
Conservative | Daniel Hamilton | 2,250 | 42.8 | |
Labour | Jo Rigby | 2,214 | 42.1 | |
Conservative | Azhar Chaudhry | 2,188 | 41.6 | |
Labour | Douglas Oddy | 1,963 | 37.4 | |
Labour | Richard Taylor | 1,913 | 36.4 | |
Green | Alexa Crow | 659 | 12.5 | |
Green | Ben Burt | 528 | 10.0 | |
Green | John Low | 514 | 9.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Provence Maydew | 405 | 7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shanaz Casoojee | 353 | 6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Raaid Casoojee | 294 | 5.6 | |
Turnout | 5,254 | 60 | ||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Juliana Annan | 1,991 | 47.7 | |
Labour | Tony Belton | 1,975 | 47.3 | |
Labour | Maurice McLeod | 1,760 | 42.2 | |
Conservative | Rory Manley | 1,404 | 33.6 | |
Conservative | Sami Abouzahra | 1,355 | 32.5 | |
Conservative | Mariette Miemietz | 1,280 | 30.7 | |
Green | Isabel Losada | 689 | 16.5 | |
Green | Emma Buckley | 557 | 13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Teresa Norman | 396 | 9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Petri Vitiello | 240 | 5.8 | |
Independent | Shaun O'Mara | 106 | 2.5 | |
Turnout | 4,173 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ravi Govindia | 2,179 | 43.1 | |
Labour | Fianna Ayres | 2,147 | 42.4 | |
Conservative | George Crivelli | 2,144 | 42.4 | |
Conservative | Michael Stephens | 2,047 | 40.5 | |
Labour | Eileen Flanagan | 1,907 | 37.7 | |
Labour | Susan Olech | 1,727 | 34.1 | |
Green | Graham Cooper | 702 | 13.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Doody | 672 | 13.3 | |
Green | Clive Price | 440 | 8.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Williams | 396 | 7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Lejman | 391 | 7.7 | |
Turnout | 5,059 | |||
Conservative hold | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kate Stock | 1,607 | 68.9 | |
Labour | Simon Hogg | 1,603 | 68.8 | |
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 607 | 26.0 | |
Conservative | Jasmine Rahman | 557 | 23.9 | |
TUSC | Kim Hendry | 120 | 5.1 | |
Turnout | 2,331 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Leonie Cooper | 3,232 | 68.8 | |
Labour | Katrina Ffrench | 2,939 | 62.5 | |
Labour | Judi Gasser | 2,893 | 61.6 | |
Conservative | Robert Broadhurst | 973 | 20.7 | |
Green | Shaun Collins | 936 | 19.9 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Iliff | 936 | 19.9 | |
Conservative | Thomas Mathers | 935 | 19.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Bracken | 322 | 6.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Clare Murray | 288 | 6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sudi Piggot | 177 | 3.8 | |
Turnout | 4,699 | |||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Cook | 1,495 | 45.8 | |
Conservative | Tom Pridham | 1,391 | 42.6 | |
Labour | Martin Linton | 1,298 | 39.8 | |
Labour | Rebecca Tate | 1,206 | 36.9 | |
Green | Cyril Richert | 445 | 13.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jenny Voyce | 294 | 9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Radcliffe | 268 | 8.2 | |
Turnout | 3,265 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Matthew Corner | 352 | 39.9 | |
Conservative | Mark Justin | 328 | 37.2 | |
Labour | Alexander Christian | 261 | 29.6 | |
Labour | Maha Younes | 250 | 28.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Gitsham | 239 | 27.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sue Wixley | 212 | 24.0 | |
Green | Joanna Zeenny | 41 | 4.6 | |
Green | Andrew Macmillan | 34 | 3.9 | |
Turnout | 882 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Emmeline Owens | 2,244 | 53.5 | |
Conservative | Aled Richards-Jones | 2,168 | 51.7 | |
Labour | Emily Wintle | 1,377 | 32.8 | |
Labour | James Toone | 1,094 | 26.1 | |
Green | Joe Taylor | 754 | 18.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ben Morris | 544 | 13.0 | |
Turnout | 4,197 | |||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jenny Yates | 1,909 | 51.2 | |
Labour | Matthew Tiller | 1,865 | 50.0 | |
Labour | Graeme Henderson | 1,855 | 49.8 | |
Conservative | Jane Cooper | 1,247 | 33.4 | |
Conservative | Ray Chapman | 1,183 | 31.7 | |
Conservative | Deen Ossman | 1,154 | 31.0 | |
Green | Terence Brown | 357 | 9.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Henry Compson | 351 | 9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ben Speedy | 312 | 8.4 | |
Green | Matthew Palmer | 307 | 8.2 | |
TUSC | Deji Olayinka | 98 | 2.6 | |
Turnout | 3,728 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sara Linton | 1,966 | 57.7 | |
Labour | Aydin Dikerdem | 1,879 | 55.1 | |
Labour | Stephen Worrall | 1,563 | 45.9 | |
Conservative | Marie Hanson | 1,090 | 32.0 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Clamp | 1,077 | 31.6 | |
Conservative | Keith Kelsall | 982 | 28.8 | |
Green | Max Ellis | 668 | 19.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Munro | 421 | 12.4 | |
Turnout | 3,408 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Fraser | 1,850 | 52.3 | |
Labour | Norman Marshall | 1,518 | 42.9 | |
Conservative | Tom Mytton | 1,425 | 40.3 | |
Conservative | Nabi Toktas | 1,271 | 36.0 | |
Green | Roy Vickery | 451 | 12.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Arminel Fennelly | 230 | 6.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Lane | 175 | 5.0 | |
Turnout | 3,535 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kim Caddy | 1,853 | 44.2 | |
Conservative | Guy Humphries | 1,763 | 42.0 | |
Labour | Lee Fennell | 1,702 | 40.6 | |
Labour | Pablo John | 1,607 | 38.3 | |
Green | Ingrid Redcliffe | 385 | 9.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Pat Durai-Bates | 375 | 8.9 | |
Green | Fergal McEntee | 323 | 7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Fabio Quaradeghini | 261 | 6.2 | |
Turnout | 4,197 | |||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jessica Lee | 1,914 | 47.0 | |
Labour | Jamie Colclough | 1,880 | 46.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline de la Soujeole | 1,700 | 41.7 | |
Conservative | Zachary Evans | 1,693 | 41.6 | |
Labour | Michael Stone | 1,690 | 41.5 | |
Conservative | Rhodri Morgan | 1,659 | 40.7 | |
Green | Byron Brown | 465 | 11.4 | |
Green | Lu Curtis | 438 | 10.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tudor Nicholls | 348 | 8.5 | |
Turnout | 4,072 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ethan Brooks | 2,292 | 43.0 | |
Conservative | James Jeffreys | 2,221 | 41.7 | |
Conservative | John Locker | 2,212 | 41.5 | |
Labour | Chris Locke | 1,768 | 33.2 | |
Labour | Diana Robinson | 1,763 | 33.1 | |
Labour | Stephen Gibbons | 1,762 | 33.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Benton | 744 | 14.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Becky Grubb | 733 | 13.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gabriel Barton-Singer | 701 | 13.2 | |
Green | Emma Killick | 556 | 10.4 | |
Green | Diana McCann | 526 | 9.9 | |
Green | Penny Staniaszek | 377 | 7.1 | |
Turnout | 5,325 | |||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sheila Boswell | 2,787 | 62.1 | |
Labour | Annamarie Critchard | 2,759 | 61.4 | |
Labour | Paul White | 2,258 | 50.3 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Styles | 1,073 | 23.9 | |
Conservative | Mike Pautsch | 1,061 | 23.6 | |
Conservative | Mozes Megyesi | 1,041 | 23.2 | |
Green | Lisa Osborne | 695 | 15.5 | |
Green | Steve Jones | 536 | 11.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lara Fiorani | 400 | 8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Elliott | 268 | 6.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Maltby Pindar | 189 | 4.2 | |
Turnout | 4,491 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kate Forbes | 2,773 | 67.9 | |
Labour | Kemi Akinola | 2,762 | 67.6 | |
Labour | Andy Gibbons | 2,339 | 57.3 | |
Conservative | Gerald Brent | 849 | 20.8 | |
Conservative | Neil Caddy | 768 | 18.8 | |
Conservative | James McLoughlin | 754 | 18.5 | |
Green | Tom Fitzhardinge | 680 | 16.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Catie Tuttle | 277 | 6.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Bieniek | 272 | 6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Sharich | 195 | 4.8 | |
Turnout | 4,083 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lizzy Dobres | 2,074 | 48.5 | |
Labour | Jack Mayorcas | 1,827 | 42.7 | |
Conservative | Kirsten Botting | 1,680 | 39.3 | |
Conservative | Crawford Anderson | 1,672 | 39.1 | |
Green | Ann Pasola | 407 | 9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Irwin | 387 | 9.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Tibbles | 369 | 8.6 | |
Turnout | 4,276 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Denise Paul | 1,750 | 49.0 | |
Labour | Sarmila Varatharaj | 1,668 | 46.7 | |
Conservative | Siôn Davies | 1,456 | 40.7 | |
Conservative | Adrian Flook | 1,435 | 40.2 | |
Green | Márcia Almeida Goodwin | 311 | 8.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Duncan Lyons | 215 | 6.0 | |
Green | Stephen Midlane | 172 | 4.8 | |
Turnout | 3,574 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Angela Graham | 2,699 | 51.5 | |
Conservative | Peter Graham | 2,560 | 48.8 | |
Conservative | Rosemary Birchall | 2,448 | 46.7 | |
Labour | Rebecca Wilson | 1,766 | 33.7 | |
Labour | Daniel Hogan | 1,664 | 31.7 | |
Labour | Thomas Pollard | 1,580 | 30.1 | |
Green | Glyn Goodwin | 740 | 14.1 | |
Green | Daniel Strathearn | 543 | 10.4 | |
Green | Pat Sharpe | 503 | 9.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eileen Arms | 323 | 6.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Ogden | 277 | 5.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Haren Thillainathan | 174 | 3.3 | |
Turnout | 5,242 | |||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sarah Davies | 2,835 | 48.8 | |
Labour | Sana Jafri | 2,618 | 45.1 | |
Conservative | William Sweet | 2,472 | 42.5 | |
Conservative | Rishi Goenka | 2,445 | 42.1 | |
Labour | Sam Nicholas | 2,439 | 42.0 | |
Conservative | Piers McCausland | 2,415 | 41.6 | |
Green | James Couper | 623 | 10.7 | |
Green | Joyce Moreau | 543 | 9.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Warren | 476 | 8.2 | |
Turnout | 5,811 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Malcolm Grimston | 3,689 | 66.4 | |
Labour | Angela Ireland | 2,221 | 40.0 | |
Conservative | Daniel Ghossain | 1,621 | 29.2 | |
Conservative | Salvatore Murtas | 1,620 | 29.1 | |
Labour | Daniel Shearer | 1,557 | 28.0 | |
Labour | Flavio Ravara | 1,529 | 27.5 | |
Conservative | Terry Walsh | 1,096 | 19.7 | |
Green | Jason Whiffin | 644 | 11.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hugh Brown | 305 | 5.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Douglas Downie | 296 | 5.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Hinton | 177 | 3.2 | |
Turnout | 5,558 | |||
Independent hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jeremy Ambache | 2,676 | 46.5 | |
Labour | Claire Gilbert | 2,605 | 45.2 | |
Conservative | Steffi Sutters | 2,534 | 44.0 | |
Conservative | Paddy Reid | 2,519 | 43.7 | |
Conservative | Ian Lewer | 2,409 | 41.8 | |
Labour | Graham Loveland | 2,239 | 38.9 | |
Green | Tahira Amini | 524 | 9.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joanna Chidgey | 515 | 8.9 | |
Green | Julie Estelle | 473 | 8.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cait Hart Dyke | 342 | 5.9 | |
Turnout | 5,758 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Conservative hold |
A by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr Kate Forbes for work reasons.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sean Lawless | 1,888 | 67.3 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Otto Jacobsson | 542 | 19.3 | +0.8 | |
Green | Nick Humberstone | 261 | 9.3 | –5.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Thillainathan Haren | 113 | 4.0 | –2.0 | |
Majority | 1,346 | 48.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,804 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.0 |
A by-election was called following the resignation of Labour councillor Claire Gilbert.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nick Austin | 2,839 | 45.3 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Jane Briginshaw | 2,350 | 37.5 | −7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Lejman | 635 | 10.1 | +1.2 | |
Green | Joseph McEntee | 438 | 7.0 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 489 | ||||
Turnout | 6262 | 52 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour |
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