2022 Lambeth Council election

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All 63 council seats 32 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	32% (2%)
First party Second party Third party   Lib Leader Claire Holland Donna Harris Scott Ainslie and Nicole Griffiths Party Labour Liberal Democrats Green Last election 57 seats, 51.7% 0 seats, 12.8% 5 seats, 19.3% Seats won 58 3 2 Seat change 1 3 3 Popular vote 97,727 20,584 40,052 Percentage 54.1% 2.4% 11.4% 0.9% 22.2% 4.2%   Fourth party   Leader Tim Briggs Party Conservative Last election 1 seat, 12.6% Seats won 0 Seat change 1 Popular vote 21,408 Percentage 11.9% 1.7%
Map of the results of the 2022 Lambeth council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in orange.
Council control before election Labour Subsequent council control Labour

The 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of Lambeth 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 Labour Party maintained its control of the council, winning 57 out of the 63 seats with the Green Party forming the principal opposition with five of the remaining six seats. The 2022 election took take place under new election boundaries, with the number of councillors remaining the same.

Labour held control of the council, winning 58 seats. The Liberal Democrats overtook the Greens as the second-largest group, winning three seats, becoming the official opposition. It also marked the first time that Liberal Democrat councillors had been elected to the council since 2010. The Conservatives lost its lone seat meaning that for the first time since the Council's founding in 1964, it will have no Conservative Councillors.

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]

Since its formation, Lambeth has generally been under Labour control apart from one period from 1968 to 1971 of Conservative control and several periods of no overall control. The council was controlled by a Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition from 2002 to 2006, and since 2006 has continuously had a Labour majority. The Green Party won their first seat in the 2006 election, which they lost in the 2010 election. The Green Party regained their seat in the 2014 election, while the Liberal Democrats lost all their representation. In the most recent election in 2018, Labour won 57 seats with 51.7% of the vote across the borough, the Greens won five seats with 19.3% of the vote, and the Conservatives won a single seat with 12.6% of the vote. The Liberal Democrats received 12.3% of the vote but didn't win any seats.^[2][3]

A Labour councillor for Coldharbour, Matt Parr, died in July 2018.^[4] A by-election to fill his seat was held on 13 September 2018, which was won by the Labour candidate Scarlett O'Hara.^[5] A Labour councillor for Thornton, Jane Edbrooke, resigned in early 2019 to take up a politically restricted job.^[6] The by-election was won by the Labour candidate Stephen Donnelly while the Liberal Democrats gained vote share to come in a strong second place.^[7] Another councillor for Thornton, Lib Peck, resigned shortly after to take up a role working for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Labour held the resulting by-election in April 2019 with candidate Nanda Manley-Browne, with the Liberal Democrats making further gains, reducing the Labour majority to nineteen votes.^[8] Labour councillor for Oval, Philip Normal, resigned in January 2022 after historic racist and sexist tweets were uncovered on his Twitter account.^[9] In February 2022, Labour councillor for Clapham Town, Christopher Wellbelove resigned due to his new job as Deputy-Lieutenant for Greater London.^[10]

As with most London boroughs, Lambeth was electing its councillors under new boundaries decided by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, which it produced after a period of consultation. The number of councillors remained at 63, under new boundaries with thirteen three-councillor wards and twelve two-councillor wards.^[11]

Lambeth, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took 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 (depending on the number of electors). Electors had as many votes as there are 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.^[12] 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.^[12]

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  Council composition after the 2018 election
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  Council composition ahead of the 2022 election
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  Council composition after the 2022 election

2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	58	4	3	1	92.1	54.1	97,727	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	3	3	0	3	4.8	11.4	20,584	-0.9
	Green	2	0	3	3	3.2	22.2	40,052	+3.2
	Conservative	0	0	1	1	0.0	11.9	21,408	-0.7
	Women's Equality	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	365	New
	TUSC	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	319	New
	Socialist (GB)	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	31	New
	Reform UK	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	23	New

Council composition following the election in May 2022:

Candidates shown below are confirmed candidates.^[13] An asterisk (*) indicates an incumbent Councillor seeking re-election.

Maria Kay was a sitting councillor for Brixton Hill ward.

Nanda Manley-Browne was a sitting councillor for Thornton ward.

Marcia Cameron and Ben Kind were sitting councillors for Tulse Hill ward.

Adrian Garden was a sitting councillor for Brixton Hill ward.

Donatus Anyanwu and Scarlett O'Hara were sitting councillors for Coldharbour ward.

Becca Thackray was a sitting councillor for Herne Hill ward.

Tim Briggs and Joanna Reynolds were sitting councillors for Clapham Common ward.

Jess Leigh was a sitting councillor for Ferndale ward.

Irfan Mohammed was a sitting councillor for Ferndale ward.

Martin Tiedemann was a sitting councillor for Brixton Hill ward.

Tim Windle was a sitting councillor for Larkhall ward.

Pete Elliott an incumbent councillor of the ward was defeated.

Jim Dickson and Pauline George were sitting councillors for Herne Hill ward.

David Amos was a sitting councillor for Prince's ward.

Jacqueline Dyer was a sitting councillor for Vassall ward.

Paul Gadsby and Anne-Marie Gallop were sitting councillors for Vassall ward.

Claire Holland is a sitting councillor for Oval ward since 2014 and Council Leader since May 2021.

Saleha Jaffer was previously a councillor for St Leonards ward between 2014 and 2018.

Mahamed Hashi was a sitting councillor for Stockwell ward.

Tina Valcarcel was a sitting councillor for Larkhall ward.

Joanne Simpson was a sitting councillor for Prince's ward.

Danny Adilypour was a sitting councillor for Streatham South ward.

Liz Atkins and Rezina Chowdhury were sitting councillors for Streatham Hill ward.

Ed Davie was a sitting councillor for Thornton ward.

Scott Ainslie and Nicole Griffiths were sitting councillors for St Leonards ward.

Ibrahim Dogus was a sitting councillor for Bishop's ward.

Fred Cowell was a sitting councillor for Thurlow Park ward.

Vauxhall by-election, 5 October 2023^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Swaine-Jameson	595	42.0	11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Fareed Alderechi	395	27.9	16.8
	Green	Jacqueline Bond	256	18.1	2.1
	Conservative	Lee Rotherham	160	11.3	4.3
	Socialist (GB)	Daniel Lambert	9	0.6	N/A
Majority			200	14.1
Turnout			1,415	22.5	4.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Knight's Hill by-election, 2 May 2024^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Emma Nye	2,677	55.5	6.8
	Green	Victoria Evans	983	20.4	0.7
	Conservative	Leila Yassen	530	11.0	1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Sanders	378	7.8	1.7
	Independent	Janet Gayle	210	4.4	N/A
Majority			1,694
Turnout			4,826	40.8	9.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Common and Vale by-election, 2 May 2024^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sarah Cole	2,269	49.3	9.1
	Conservative	Promise Phillips	884	19.2	3.3
	Green	Duncan Eastoe	784	17.1	3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Davidson	596	13.0	1.4
Majority			1,793	30.1
Turnout			4,594	39.0	10.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Common and Vale by-election, 4 July 2024^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dominic Armstrong	2,796	46.8	2.8
	Green	Duncan Eastoe	1,354	22.6	5.5
	Conservative	Pierce Lachlan	918	15.3	3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Davidson	906	15.1	2.1
Majority			1,442	24.2
Turnout			6,032	50.3	21.7
	Labour hold		Swing