Hammersmith and Fulham London UK labelled ward map 2002

Elections to

Hammersmith and Fulham Council Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. Hammersmith and F ...

were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election.

Election result

At the Hammersmith and Fulham council election, 2006, the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

won a majority for the first time since 1968, taking 33 seats and forming the Administration for the

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham. The borou ...

. The Council leader was Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh.

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formed the opposition on the Council, with 13 seats, and was led by Stephen Cowan. The Conservative Party came close to losing the usually safe ward of Palace Riverside, after the sitting councillors were deselected, and ran as independents. One of the two rebels returned 12 years later as the Conservative candidate in the same ward, and was elected. One notable loss for the Labour Party was one of the three seats in the Shepherds Bush Green ward - which only ever elected Labour councillors before or since. After alternating between Abu Khalad (1986, 1994 & 2002) and Jafar Khaled (1990 & 1998), Abu Khaled stood for re-election but lost by 4 votes in a ward where the Conservatives had previously been nowhere near winning a seat.

Ward results

The borough is divided into 16 electoral wards, all bar two electing three councillors apiece.

Addison

Askew

Avonmore & Brook Green

College Park & Old Oak

Fulham Broadway

Fulham Reach

Hammersmith Broadway

Munster

North End

Palace Riverside

Parson's Green & Walham

Ravenscourt Park

Sands End

Shepherd's Bush Green

Town

Wormholt & White City

References

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