2017 City of London Corporation election

2017 City of London Corporation election
100 seats to the Court of Common Council; 51 seats needed for a majority
	Results by ward. Red represents Labour. Blue represents Temple & Farringdon Together. Grey represents Independents. Wards coloured dark grey did not hold contests.
Council control before election; No overall control;	Council control after election ; No overall control;

The 2017 City of London Corporation election took place on 23 March 2017 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation. The election was the first time apart from a 2014 by-election that partisan candidates were elected to the body. Fifteen of the hundred seats on the council were won by political parties: the newly created Temple & Farringdon Together party and the Labour Party.^[1]^[2]

The elections attracted media attention as they represented a high point in the City of London for Labour, who until the 2017 election had only ever won a single seat in a 2014 by-election for Portsoken ward.^[3]^[4]

26 councillors were elected unopposed: twenty-five independents and one Labour.

Background

Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years.^[5] In the previous election in 2013, all 100 seats were won by independent candidates.^[6]

In a 2014 by-election for the Portsoken ward, the Labour Party won its first seat on the council with the Anglican priest William Campbell-Taylor becoming the first partisan councillor to be elected to the body.^[7]

Electoral system

Most residents of the twenty-five wards of the City of London live in the Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Portsoken and Queenhithe. Residents have one vote each, and businesses have a number of votes that scales with the number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that.^[8]

Councillors are elected by multi-member first-past-the-post.

Overall result

2017 City of London Corporation election^[9]
Party		Seats					Votes
Party		Count	Gains	Losses	Net	Of total (%)	Of total (%)	Count	Change
	Independent	85	0	15	−15	85.0	72.5	3,047	−7.9
	Labour	5	5	0	+5	5.0	17.1	717	-2.5
	Temple & Farringdon Together	10	10	0	+10	10.0	10.5	440	+10.5
Total		100

Ward results

Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).

Aldersgate

Aldersgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Randall Anderson*	–	–	–
	Independent	Adrian Bastow	–	–	–
	Labour	Richard Crossan	–	–	–
	Independent	Jeremy Mayhew*	–	–	–
	Independent	Joyce Nash*	–	–	–
	Independent	Barbara Newman*	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Labour hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Aldgate

Aldgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Douglas Barrow*	–	–	–
	No description	Andrien Meyers	–	–	–
	Independent	Hugh Morris*	–	–	–
	No description	Sylvia Moys*	–	–	–
	Independent	Dhruv Patel*	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bassishaw

Bassishaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Graeme Harrower*	–	–	–
	Independent	Robert Merrett*	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Billingsgate

Billingsgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Welbank*	42	43.3	*N/A*
	Independent	Jamie Ingham Clark*	40	41.2	*N/A*
	No description	Richard Briggs	15	15.5	N/A
Turnout			97	24.1	N/A
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Simon Duckworth*	–	–	–
	Independent	Prem Goyal	–	–	–
	Independent	Wendy Hyde*	–	–	–
	Independent	Andrew Mayer	–	–	–
	Independent	Tom Sleigh*	–	–	–
	Independent	Pooja Tank	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bread Street

Bread Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Giles Shilson*	136	40.1	9.4
	Independent	Oliver Lodge*	126	37.2	10.7
	Independent	Alison McDonald	46	13.5	N/A
	Independent	Neil Green	31	9.1	N/A
Turnout			339	56.1
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Bridge and Bridge Without

Bridge and Bridge Without
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Keith Bottomley*	131	52.8
	Independent	Timothy Levene	96	38.7
	Independent	Simon Maddocks	21	8.5
Turnout			248	46.7
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent gain from Independent

Broad Street

Broad Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Bennett*	–	–	–
	Independent	Christopher Hayward*	–	–	–
	Independent	John Scott*	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Candlewick

Candlewick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	James De Sausmerez*	113	48.7	*N/A*
	Independent	Kevin Everett*	104	44.8	–
	Independent	Jonathon Pettigrew	15	6.5	N/A
Turnout			232	56.1
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Castle Baynard

Castle Baynard
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Emma Edhem	225	11.3	*N/A*
	Independent	Henrika Priest*	225	11.3	1.7
	Independent	Catherine McGuiness*	213	10.7	1.6
	Independent	Graham Packham*	213	10.7	1.2
	Independent	Jeremy Simons*	208	10.4	*N/A*
	Independent	Angus Knowles-Cutler	200	10.0	*N/A*
	Independent	Michael Hudson*	195	9.8	1.6
	Independent	Christopher Boden*	187	9.4	2.6
	Independent	Alpa Raja	119	6.0	N/A
Turnout			1,785	20.5
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Cheap

Cheap
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alastair Moss*	178	28.6	8.3
	Independent	Tijs Broeke	169	27.2	*N/A*
	Independent	Nicholas Bensted-Smith*	168	27.0	*N/A*
	Independent	Ann Pembroke*	107	17.2	4.8
Turnout			622	50.3
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Coleman Street

Coleman Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Sophie Fernandes*	162	26.0	–
	Independent	Stuart Fraser*	140	22.4	–
	No description	Andrew McMurtrie*	137	22.0	–
	Independent	Michael Cassidy*	133	21.3	–
	Labour	Paul O'Brien	52	8.3	N/A
Turnout			624	30.9
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	No description hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}
	Independent hold

Cordwainer

Cordwainer
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alex Barr	92	32.4	*N/A*
	Independent	Michael Snyder*	79	27.8	–
	Independent	Mark Boleat*	77	27.1	–
	Independent	Gillian Kaile	21	7.4	N/A
	No description	Timothy Becker	15	5.3	N/A
Turnout			284	58.3
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Cornhill

Cornhill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Peter Dunphy*	92	33.6	1.7
	Independent	Stephen Haines*	85	31.0	0.1
	Independent	Ian Seaton*	77	28.1	2.2
	Labour	Joseph Batty	20	7.3	0.6
Turnout			274	29.2
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Cripplegate

Cripplegate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	No description	Susan Pearson	558	13.6	*N/A*
	Independent	John Tomlinson*	449	10.9	0.5
	Labour	William Pimlott	409	10.0	2.3
	Independent	Vivienne Littlechild*	407	9.9	0.5
	Labour	Joan Durcan	401	9.8	*N/A*
	Independent	David Bradshaw*	386	9.4	2.1
	Independent	Steve Quilter*	375	9.1	2.6
	Independent	Richard Bostock	323	7.9	*N/A*
	Independent	Gareth Moore*	311	7.6	2.0
	Independent	John Barker	307	7.5	1.7
	Independent	Christopher Punter*	181	4.4	5.4
Turnout			4,107	37.8
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Labour hold
	Independent hold
	Labour hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Dowgate

Dowgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mark Wheatley*	123	40.6	10.7
	Independent	Henry Pollard*	112	37.0	2.0
	Independent	Matthew Hampson	68	22.4	N/A
Turnout			303	30.3
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Farringdon Within

Farringdon Within
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Thomas Anderson	247	10.2	*N/A*
	Independent	Christopher Hill	241	10.1	*N/A*
	Independent	Ann Holmes*	226	9.4	0.3
	Independent	Clare James*	213	8.8	3.1
	Independent	Matthew Bell	190	7.9	*N/A*
	Independent	Karina Dostalova*	184	7.6	2.7
	Independent	Richard Regan*	160	6.6	4.0
	Independent	Graeme Smith*	159	6.6	3.2
	Independent	Virginia Rounding*	148	6.1	6.0
	Independent	John Edwards	143	5.9	N/A
	Independent	Colin Gregory	131	5.4	N/A
	Independent	Alex Bain-Stewart*	107	4.4	6.5
	Independent	Stephen Collins	100	4.1	N/A
	Independent	Stanley Ginsburg	94	3.9	N/A
	Independent	Robert McLean	71	2.9	N/A
Turnout			2,414	35.4
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Farringdon Without

Farringdon Without
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	T&F Together	Caroline Addy	440	7.4	*N/A*
	T&F Together	Ruby Sayed	427	7.2	*N/A*
	T&F Together	Wendy Mead*	425	7.2	0.6
	T&F Together	Oliver Sells	424	7.1	*N/A*
	T&F Together	Paul Martinelli*	410	6.9	0.8
	T&F Together	Gregory Lawrence	408	6.9	1.2
	T&F Together	Charles Lord*	404	6.8	1.0
	T&F Together	George Abrahams*	403	6.8	0.1
	T&F Together	John Absalom*	400	6.7	0.4
	T&F Together	Oliver Sells	390	6.6	*N/A*
	Independent	Julian Malins*	209	3.5	4.9
	Independent	Colin Davidson	208	3.5	N/A
	Independent	Sophia Morrell	190	3.2	N/A
	Independent	David Nicholls	168	2.8	N/A
	Independent	Alexander Deane*	167	2.8	5.5
	Independent	Francis Hoar	164	2.8	N/A
	Independent	Andrew Lomas	163	2.7	N/A
	No description	Nicholas Bennett	149	2.5	N/A
	Independent	Adam Richardson*	147	2.5	4.1
	No description	Mark Watson-Gandy	144	2.4	N/A
	Independent	Lewis Rodger	50	0.8	N/A
	Independent	Stuart Gardner	42	0.7	N/A
Turnout			5,932	20.9
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–
	T&F Together gain from Independent		Swing	–

Langbourn

Langbourn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Philip Woodhouse*	95	27.0	5.5
	Independent	Judith Pleasance*	82	23.3	8.6
	Independent	John Chapman*	64	18.2	0.6
	Independent	Timothy Butcher	57	16.2	N/A
	Independent	Alexander Craggs	54	15.3	N/A
Turnout			352	42.4
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Lime Street

Lime Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Dominic Christian*	154	28.3	*N/A*
	Independent	Henry Colthurst*	115	21.1	1.4
	Independent	Elizabeth Rogula*	115	21.1	2.4
	Independent	Thomas Clementi	86	15.8	*N/A*
	Independent	Peter Cave	75	13.8	N/A
	Independent	George Johnstone	35	6.4	N/A
Turnout			545	49.0
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Portsoken

Portsoken
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jason Pritchard	230	20.0	10.2
	Labour	Munsur Ali	210	18.3	*N/A*
	Independent	John Fletcher*	197	17.2	1.3
	Independent	Henry Jones*	187	16.3	3.6
	Independent	Ayesha Azad	153	13.3	N/A
	Independent	Asif Sadiq	111	9.7	N/A
	Independent	David Barker	60	5.2	N/A
Turnout			1,148	50.7
	Labour gain from Independent
	Labour gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Queenhithe

Queenhithe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Brian Mooney*	85	51.8	4.6
	Independent	Caroline Haines	73	44.5	0.3
	Labour	John Courtneidge	6	3.7	3.7
Turnout			164	33.6
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Tower

Tower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Roger Chadwick*	–	–	–
	Independent	Anne Fairweather*	–	–	–
	Independent	Marianne Fredericks*	–	–	–
	Independent	James Tumbridge*	–	–	–
Turnout			–	–
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold
	Independent hold

Vintry

Vintry
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Thomas Hoffman*	85	37.9
	Independent	Rehana Ameer	74	33.0
	Independent	William Fraser*	65	29.0
Turnout			224	45.4
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Independent

Walbrook

Walbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Peter Bennett*	123	38.8	*N/A*
	Independent	James Thomson*	113	35.6	12.5
	Independent	Xuelin Bates	81	25.6
Turnout			317	44.0
	Independent gain from Independent
	Independent hold

Changes since the election

By-elections

March 2018

A by-election was held in Bishopsgate ward on 20 March 2018, following the election of independent Common Councilman Prem Goyal as Alderman for Portsoken ward in December 2017.^[10] The seat was won by independent Shravan Joshi.^[11]

A by-election was held in Billingsgate ward on 22 March 2018, following the resignation of independent Common Councilman Michael Welbank.^[12] The seat was won by independent John Allen-Petrie.^[13]

October 2018

A by-election was held in Castle Baynard ward on 9 October 2018, following the election of independent Common Councilman Emma Edham as Alderman for Candlewick ward in July 2017. The seat was won by Labour candidate Natasha Lloyd-Owen.^[14]

Castle Baynard Ward^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Natasha Lloyd-Owen	77	27.80
	Independent	Julian Henry Malins	59	21.30
	Independent	Alpa Raja	37	13.36
	Independent	Merlene Soo Chin Emerson	36	13.00
	Independent	Virginia Rounding	28	10.11
	Independent	Richard William Humphreys	23	8.30
	Independent	Deborah Mackintosh Oliver	12	4.33
	Independent	Timothy George Christie Becker	5	1.81
Turnout			277
	Labour gain from Independent

References

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