Lambeth London Borough Council election, 2018

Lambeth Council election, 2018

3 May 2018
All 63 seats to Lambeth London Borough Council 32 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lib Peck Jonathan Bartley Tim Briggs Party Labour Green Conservative Leader since 29 November 2012 15 May 2018 May 2014 Leader's seat Thornton St Leonard's Clapham Common Last election 59 seats, 49.7% 1 seat, 15.5% 3 seats, 14.5% Seats won 57 5 1 Seat change 2 4 2 Popular vote 43,526 16,232 10,572 Percentage 51.7% 19.3% 12.6% Swing 2.0% 3.8% 1.9%
Map of the results of the 2018 Lambeth council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green and Labour in red.
Council control before election Labour Council control after election Labour

The 2018 Lambeth Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Lambeth Council in England. The election saw Labour remain in control of Lambeth Council with a slightly reduced majority, winning over 90% of the seats. The Green Party of England and Wales achieved its best-ever result in the borough, winning 5 seats and becoming the official opposition.

Overall Results

Lambeth London Borough Council election, 2018[1]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	№	Net %
	Labour	63	57	2	4	2	90.5	51.7	43,526	2.0
	Green	61	5	4	0	4	7.3	19.0	16,232	3.8
	Conservative	63	1	0	2	2	1.6	12.6	10,572	1.9
	Liberal Democrat	63	0	0	0		0.0	12.3	10,355	0.5
	Independent	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	660	0.4
	UKIP	12	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	305	5.0
	Others		0	0	0		0.0	2.9	2,475	1.2

Council composition

The election saw Labour remain in control of Lambeth Council with a reduced majority of two seats. The party were wiped out in the St Leonard's ward, and they also lost a councillor in both Gipsy Hill and Herne Hill wards.

For the first time since the creation of the council, the Greens became the official opposition with five councillors, including Jonathan Bartley, who is the co-leader of the Green Party.

The Conservatives were reduced down to a single seat in Clapham Common, after Labour gained two of the seats they had previously held, despite the Conservative vote share in the ward increasing. The Conservatives failed to gain their target wards of Thurlow Park, Clapham Town and Larkhall.

The Liberal Democrats failed to make any gains at the election. However, they did increase their vote share in some of the wards they stood in.

Rachel Heywood, a former Labour councilor in Coldharbour sought re-election as an independent candidate. Heywood failed to win the seat and finished in 6th place, behind both Green Party candidates but ahead of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

The Women's Equality Party recived 8% of the vote in the Brixton Hill ward, finishing in 5th place, ahead of two of the Green Party candidates, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The party also stood candidates in the wards of Prince's and Ferndale.

UKIP saw their vote share largely decrease in the wards they stood in.

The Federalist Party polled 0.2% of the vote in the Prince's ward with the Pirate Party polling 0.2% in the ward of Vassall.

Council composition following the election in May 2018:

Results by ward

Candidates shown below are confirmed candidates. An asterisk * indicates an incumbent Councillor seeking re-election.

Bishop's

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Bishop's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jen Moseley*	1,126	46.5	9.2
	Labour	Kevin Craig*	1,094
	Labour	İbrahim Doğuş	1,090
	Liberal Democrat	Audrey Eager	713	28.2	3.8
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Trett	691
	Liberal Democrat	Charley Hasted	606
	Conservative	James Bellis	311	11.8	1.9
	Green	Michael Armstrong	292	10.4	0.1
	Conservative	Glyn Chambers	286
	Green	James Wallace	253
	Conservative	Peter Wilde	243
	Green	Gay Lee	189
	UKIP	Elizabeth Jones	86	3.2	5.2
	UKIP	Gavin Gibbs	72
	UKIP	David Poulden	69
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Brixton Hill

Brixton Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Maria Kay	2,142	56.4	6.6
	Labour Co-op	Adrian Garden*	2,015
	Labour Co-op	Martin Tiedemann*	1,796
	Green	Gwen Buck	856	17.5	4.5
	Women's Equality	Janet Baker	842	8.0	8.0
	Green	Richard Bultitude	517
	Green	Will Eaves	478
	Liberal Democrat	Sarah Lewis	420	7.9	1.3
	Conservative	Tamara Bailey	389	10.0	1.1
	Conservative	Lavinia Cartwright	349
	Conservative	Savill Young	319
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Portelli	222
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Price	192
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Clapham Common

Clapham Common (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Joe Corry-Roake	1,455	43.3	11.4
	Labour	Joanna Reynolds	1,432
	Conservative	Tim Briggs*	1,325	39.3	2.8
	Labour	Tim Goodwin	1,293
	Conservative	David Frost	1,289
	Conservative	Leslie Maruziva	1,164
	Green	Joanna Eaves	441	10.4	3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Jenkins	439	12.4	2.2
	Liberal Democrat	Carita Ogden	320	3.9
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Newby	317	3.9
	Green	Nick Humberstone	292
	Green	Kerstin Selander	269
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clapham Town

Clapham Town (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Linda Bray*	1,901	52.9	1.3
	Labour	Nigel Haselden *	1,840
	Labour	Christopher Wellbelove*	1,813
	Conservative	Tim Bennett	978	26.2	1.7
	Conservative	John Sunderland	908
	Conservative	Charley Jarrett	871
	Green	Kat Beach	474	10.7	2.7
	Liberal Democrat	Julie Fox	398	10.1	0.1
	Liberal Democrat	Marietta Stuart	389
	Green	Marion Prideaux	395
	Liberal Democrat	Rodney Ovenden	276
	Green	Shahzada Saeed	266
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Coldharbour

Coldharbour (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Emma Nye	2,325	66.0	3.4
	Labour Co-op	Donatus Anyanwu *	2,257
	Labour Co-op	Matthew Parr *	1,975
	Green	Michael Groce	761	15.5	3.7
	Green	Rashid Nix	683
	Independent	Rachel Heywood *	660	6.6	6.6
	Conservative	Michael Johnson	228	6.4	0.4
	Conservative	Amy Hennessy	217
	Conservative	Yvonne Stewart-Williams	189
	Liberal Democrat	Olivier Bertin	182	5.4	0.4
	Liberal Democrat	Henry McMorrow	180
	Liberal Democrat	Clive Lewis	173
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

On July 29th 2018, Cllr Parr died, this subsequently triggered a by-election for 13th September 2018.

Ferndale

Ferndale (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Jess Leigh	1,853	58.5	8.4
	Labour Co-op	Joshua Lindsey	1,685
	Labour Co-op	Irfan Mohammed	1,649
	Green	Rachel Alexander	715	13.2	4.5
	Green	Indar Picton-Howell	459
	Liberal Democrat	Benjammin Austin	455	11.8	4.5
	Conservative	Katy Slack	384
	Conservative	Craig Barrett	373	12.6	1.4
	Women's Equality	Leila Fazal	366	4.1	4.1
	Conservative	David Macbeth-Richardson	359
	Liberal Democrat	Aedan Pope	328
	Liberal Democrat	John Siraut	263
Majority
Turnout
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

On 10th August 2018, Cllr Mohammed was suspended from the party after it had been found out he had shared an anti semitic Facebook post. He now sits as an Independent. ^[2]

Gipsy Hill

Gipsy Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jennifer Braithwaite*	2,063	47.1	20.1
	Labour	Matthew Bennett *	2,054
	Green	Pete Elliott	1,922	43.6	32.7
	Green	Becki Newell	1,903
	Labour	Luke Murphy *	1,778
	Green	Paul Rocks	1,647
	Conservative	James Davis	271	5.7	7.3
	Conservative	Irene Kimm	229
	Conservative	Simon Hooberman	208
	Liberal Democrat	Alexander Davies	132	2.9	2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Samar Riaz	124
	Liberal Democrat	Alexander Haylett	101
	UKIP	John Dodds	42	0.8	6.4
	UKIP	David Kennett	36
	UKIP	Dafydd Morris	31
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing

Herne Hill

Herne Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Becca Thackray	2,365	42.1	14.3
	Labour	Jim Dickson*	2,335	43.5	6.0
	Labour	Pauline George	2,246
	Labour	Jack Holborn*	2,114
	Green	Nick Christian	2,060
	Green	Matt Reynolds	2,049
	Herne Hill Community & Libraries Campaign	Nick Edwards	705	4.6	4.6
	Conservative	Claire Baker	308	5.2	4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Poppy Hasted	274	4.6	3.6
	Liberal Democrat	Rachel Lester	266
	Conservative	Dick Tooze	263
	Conservative	Anton Richards	228
	Liberal Democrat	Luke Sandford	171
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Knight's Hill

Knight's Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jane Pickard*	2,378	65.1	3.5
	Labour	Jackie Meldrum*	2,326
	Labour	Sonia Winifred*	2,033
	Green	Torla Evans	637
	Green	Robert Threadgold	504
	Green	Duncan Eastoe	441	15.3	2.5
	Conservative	Shirley Cosgrave	425	11.6	1.4
	Conservative	Raymond Walker	414
	Conservative	Edward Watkins	362
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Baker	345	7.9	0.8
	Liberal Democrat	Shiraz Engineer	247
	Liberal Democrat	Liz Maffei	230
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Larkhall

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Larkhall (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Tina Valcarcel*	2,063	59.5	9.5
	Labour	Andy Wilson *	1,893
	Labour	Tim Windle	1,751
	Green	Colleen Campbell	513	13.6	1.4
	Conservative	Thomas Mytton	501	14.2	2.2
	Liberal Democrat	Vivienne Baines	458	12.6	4.6
	Conservative	Abiola Kingsley-Osaiga	455
	Green	Jo Parkes	415
	Conservative	Leila Abdi-Yaasen	411
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Baines	392
	Green	Nick Hattersley	386
	Liberal Democrat	John Medway	354
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Oval

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Oval (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Claire Holland*	1,983	47.1	4.9
	Labour	Jack Hopkins*	1,836
	Labour	Phillip Normal	1,719
	Liberal Democrat	Kathryn Grant	1,236	30.0	10.0
	Liberal Democrat	Stéphane Croce	1,210
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Hillier	1,076
	Green Party - First Choice Candidate	Michael Keane	596	11.6	1.0
	Conservative	Joshua Gething	461	11.3	0.6
	Green	Cath Potter	458
	Conservative	Peter Goves	455
	Conservative	James Hallett	408
	Green	Pat Price-Tomes	311
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Prince's

Prince's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Amos*	2,395	57.8	7.8
	Labour	Jon Davies	2,325
	Labour	Joanne Simpson*	2,256
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Hardman	644	13.6	4.2
	Green	Helen Gardiner	591	11.0	0.7
	Conservative	Claire Barker	570	12.6	3.6
	Liberal Democrat	Colette Thomas	542
	Conservative	Michael Jefferson	482
	Conservative	Jon Harrison	471
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Keating	461
	Green	Fern Lindsay	422
	Women's Equality	Eleanor Hemmens	326	2.7	2.7
	Green	Nick Hemus	318
	UKIP	Alan Bowles	101	2.1	5.1
	UKIP	Robert Stephenson	75
	UKIP	Mattias Tornstrand	67
	Federalist Party	Stuart Clark	26	0.2	0.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Leonard's

St Leonard's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Scott Ainslie *	2,141	47.5	17.2
	Green	Jonathan Bartley	2,080
	Green	Nicole Griffiths	2,006
	Labour	Saleha Jaffer *	1,677	38.4	5.1
	Labour	Rob Hill *	1,676
	Labour	Stephen Donnelly	1,673
	Conservative	Wendy Newall	439	9.0	0.4
	Conservative	Scott Simmonds	383
	Conservative	Neil Salt	337
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer Keen	188	5.2	17.1
	Liberal Democrat	Fiona MacKenzie	159
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Malins	108
Majority			329	9.1	N/A
	Green hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing

Stockwell

Stockwell (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Lucy Caldicott	2,107	56.3	3.3
	Labour	Dr Mahamed Hashi	1,828
	Labour	Mohammed Jaser	1,778
	Liberal Democrat	Susanna Flood	598	13.5	1.0
	Green	Catherine Dawkins	592	13.4	1.3
	Conservative	Keith Best	521	14.7	1.2
	Conservative	Sarah Barr	505
	Conservative	Paul Mawdsley	469
	Green	Tom Wood	433
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Horsler	405
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Thurburn	373
	Green	Martin Dore	352
	TUSC	Lisa Bainbridge	72	1.1	2.4
	TUSC	Steven Nally	40
	Duma Polska	Tadeusz Slaski	37	0.3	0.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Hill

Streatham Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Liz Atkins*	2,253	58.4	17.2
	Labour	Rezina Chowdhury*	2,121
	Labour	Iain Simpson*	1,912
	Green	Will Aspinall	656	16.5	4.5
	Green	Chris Holt	608
	Conservative	Alexa Bailey	558	14.1	5.1
	Green	Leon Maurice-Jones	517
	Conservative	Simon Hemsley	505
	Conservative	Kushal Patel	469
	Liberal Democrat	Ashley Lumsden	404	10.5	19.7
	Liberal Democrat	Ishbel Brown	379
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Giess	360
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham South

Streatham South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Danial Adilypour*	2,217	65.9	4.8
	Labour	Clair Wilcox*	2,207
	Labour	John Kazantzis*	2,187
	Conservative	Russell Newall	570	15.2	2.6
	Conservative	Helen Smith	539
	Conservative	Chris Paling	440
	Green	David Robinson	365	9.3	3.2
	Green	Pete Johnson	312
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Drage	277	7.2	1.8
	Green	Charmian Kenner	269
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Bryant	241
	Liberal Democrat	David Hare	215
	UKIP	John Plume	76	1.7	1.7
	UKIP	Simon Harman	66
	UKIP	Johan Ward	44
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Wells

Streatham Wells (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Malcolm Clark*	2,151	49.8	6.1
	Labour	Marianna Masters	2,065
	Labour	Mohammed Seedat*	1,975
	Liberal Democrat	Dominic Leigh	1,281	30.2	3.0
	Liberal Democrat	Helen Thompson	1,261
	Liberal Democrat	Eloka Ikegbunam	1,216
	Green	Sheila Freeman	544	11.3	0.6
	Green	Becca Deegan	532
	Green	Clifford Fleming	351
	Conservative	Lisabeth Liell	350	8.1	1.1
	Conservative	Russell Henman	340
	Conservative	Teresa Tunstall	325
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Thornton

Thornton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Lib Peck *	2,140	63.9	11.6
	Labour	Jane Edbrooke*	1,999
	Labour	Ed Davie *	1,990
	Conservative	Martin Reid	545	16.1	1.8
	Conservative	Michael Spencer	511
	Conservative	Vernon de Maynard	489
	Green	Katherine Curran	388	10.8	2.5
	Green	Adrian Audsley	364
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Brack	329	9.2	2.9
	Liberal Democrat	Rebecca MacNair	328
	Green	Anja Thies	292
	Liberal Democrat	Conor Doherty	235
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Jane Edbrooke was previously an Oval ward councillor (2010-2018).

Thurlow Park

Thurlow Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Anna Birley*	2,377	55.5	6.5
	Labour Co-op	Fred Cowell*	2,308
	Labour Co-op	Peter Ely	2,076
	Conservative	Kelly Ben-Maimon	820	19.7	5.3
	Conservative	Elia Carvalho	820
	Conservative	Jack Kelly	761
	Liberal Democrat	Kathy Erasmus	691	15.7	10.4
	Liberal Democrat	Doug Buist	649
	Liberal Democrat	Bryan Mahon-Ball	576
	Green	Alice Playle	512	11.8	2.5
	Green	Danielle Montrose-Francis	461
	Green	Dale Mathers	458
	Independent	Robin Lambert	89	0.7	5.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Tulse Hill

Tulse Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Mary Atkins *	2,289	61.5	0.9
	Labour	Marcia Cameron *	2,271
	Labour	Ben Kind *	2,102
	Green Party - First Choice Candidate	Gerlinde Gniewosz	947	23.7	3.6
	Green	Kate Whitehead	838
	Green	Andy Plant	795
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Coldrick	318	7.7	0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Terry Curtis	289
	Conservative	Claire Gardener	280	7.2	1.1
	Conservative	Ed Gormley	255
	Conservative	Roger Green	235
	Liberal Democrat	Scott Liddle	213
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Ben Kind was previously a Bishop's ward councillor (2014-2018).

Vassall

Vassall (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jacqui Dyer*	2,296	62.1	12.1
	Labour	Annie Gallop*	2,165
	Labour	Paul Gadsby*	2,120
	Green	Sarah Mynott	594	15.0	2.1
	Green	Florence Pollock	505
	Liberal Democrat	Kate Noble	476	13.1	0.4
	Liberal Democrat	Juliet Hodges	474
	Green	Bruno Combelles	471
	Liberal Democrat	John Lubbock	433
	Conservative	Glen Promnitz	338	8.6	4.6
	Conservative	Gareth Wallace	318
	Conservative	Stuart Barr	257
	Pirate	Mark Chapman	127	1.2	0.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections 2018-2022

Coldharbour by-election, 13 September 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Scarlett O'Hara	1,739	58.2	7.8
	Green	Michael Groce	912	30.5	15.0
	Liberal Democrat	Doug Buist	148	5.0	0.4
	Conservative	Yvonne Stewart-Williams	119	4.0	2.4
	Women's Equality	Sian Fogden	47	1.6	1.6
	UKIP	Robert Stephenson	21	0.7	0.7
Majority			827	27.7	22.8
Turnout			2,994	24.8
	Labour hold		Swing

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