Portsoken Ward is an electoral district in the
City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...
, England.
(See also
Portsoken
Portsoken, traditionally referred to with the definite article as the Portsoken, is one of the City of London's 25 ancient wards, which are still used for local elections. Historically an extra-mural Ward, lying east of Aldgate and the City wal ...
). It returns an
Alderman
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many Jurisdiction, jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council membe ...
and four Councilmen
to the
Court of Common Council
The Court of Common Council is the primary decision-making body of the City of London Corporation. It meets nine times per year. Most of its work is carried out by committees. Elections are held at least every four years. It is largely composed o ...
of the
City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United King ...
.
2017 Aldermanic by-election
Michael Bear became Alderman in 2005 and resigned in 2017. This led to the first Aldermanic election in the City of London Corporation contested by the
Labour Party.
The election was won by
Prem Goyal, founder of the
All People's Party,
although he stood as an independent.
2022 Common Council election
The Common Council election in Portsoken Ward recorded the highest turnout in the 2022 Citywide Common Council Elections with 57.6% of the electorate casting their vote. The average turnout across the rest of the City of London was much lower at 36.5%. Two incumbent councillors,
Munsur Ali and Jason Paul Pritchard, who were elected as Labour candidates in 2017, stood jointly and were both re-elected. John Fletcher and Henry Jones stood jointly and were both re-elected.
Changes in voteshare are by party for the Labour candidates and by candidate for independent candidates who previously stood as independents.
List of Aldermen representing Portsoken ward
*1891–1921 Sir
Marcus Samuel (Lord Mayor 1902–1903). He became the first Viscount Bearsted in 1925, two years before his death in 1927.
*1921–33 Isidore Jacobs, except 19 July–20 September 1927 when there was no alderman for Portsoken
*1933–44 Sir
Samuel Joseph (Lord Mayor 1942–1943)
*1944–46 Edmund Dutton
*1946–49
Keith Joseph
Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, (17 January 1918 – 10 December 1994), known as Sir Keith Joseph, 2nd Baronet, for most of his political life, was a British politician, intellectual and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he ...
, son of Sir Samuel Joseph
*1949–84 Sir
Bernard Waley-Cohen
Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914 – 3 July 1991) was a British businessman. He was the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, elected in 1960.
Biography
The son of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Alice (''née'' Beddington), Waley-C ...
(Lord Mayor 1960–61)
*1984–2006
Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken
Peter Keith Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken KStJ (born 8 December 1941) is a businessman who was chairman of Lloyd's of London from 2003 until 2011 and Lord Mayor of London from 1998 to 1999.
Education
He was educated at the City of London ...
(Lord Mayor 1998–99)
*2006–17 Sir Michael Bear (Lord Mayor 2010–2011)
*2017–present Prem Goyal
References
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Electoral wards in the City of London