The 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election is due to take place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of

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will be elected. The elections will take 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

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forming the principal opposition with five of the remaining six seats. The 2022 election will take place under new election boundaries, with the number of councillors remaining the same.

Background

History

The thirty-two London boroughs were established in 1965 by the

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. 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. Since its formation, Lambeth has generally been under

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control apart from one period from 1968 to 1971 of

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control and several periods of no overall control. The council was controlled by a

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coalition from 2002 to 2006, and since 2006 has continuously had a

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,

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

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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.

Council term

A Labour councillor for Coldharbour, Matt Parr, died in July 2018. A by-election to fill his seat was held on 13 September 2018, which was won by the Labour candidate Scarlett O'Hara. A Labour councillor for Thornton, Jane Edbrooke, resigned in early 2019 to take up a politically restricted job. 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. Another councillor for Thornton,

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, resigned shortly after to take up a roll working for the

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held the resulting by-election in April 2019 with candidate Nanda Manley-Browne, with the Liberal Democrats making further gains, reducing the

majority to nineteen votes.

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for

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, Philip Normal, resigned in January 2022 after historic racist and sexist tweets were uncovered on his Twitter account. In February 2022,

for Clapham Town, Christopher Wellbelove resigned due to his new job as Deputy-Lieutenant for Greater London. As with most London boroughs, Lambeth will be 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 will remain at 63, under new boundaries with thirteen three-councillor wards and twelve two-councillor wards.

Electoral process

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 will take place by multi-member

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, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors (depending on the number of electors). Electors will have as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three being elected. All registered electors (

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, Commonwealth and

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citizens) living in London aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Previous council composition

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Candidates

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

Brixton Acre Lane

Brixton North

Brixton Rush Common

Brixton Windrush

Clapham Common & Abbeville

Clapham East

Clapham Park

Clapham Town

Gipsy Hill

Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction

Kennington

Knight's Hill

Myatt's Fields

Oval

St Martin's

Stockwell East

Stockwell West & Larkhall

Streatham Common & Vale

Streatham Hill East

Streatham Hill West & Thornton

Streatham St Leonard's

Streatham Wells

Vauxhall

Waterloo & South Bank

West Dulwich

References

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