2018 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election

The 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London.[2][3]

2018 Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council election[1]
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All 46 seats to Hammersmith and Fulham Council
24 seats needed for a majority
Turnout39.0% (Increase2.4%)
  First party Second party
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Party Labour Conservative
Last election 26 seats, 42.2% 20 seats, 37.9%
Seats won 35 11
Seat change Increase9 Decrease9
Popular vote 27,401 18,279
Percentage 52.0% 34.7%
Swing Increase9.8% Decrease3.2%

Map of the results of the 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham council election. Conservatives in blue and Labour in red.

Council control before election


Labour

Council control after election


Labour

A map showing the wards of Hammersmith and Fulham since 2002

Overall results

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Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council
Structure
Seats46 councillors
 
Political groups
Majority Party (35)
  •   Labour (35)

Opposition (11)

Hammersmith and Fulham Council election result 2018[3][4]
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 35 9 0 +9 76.1 54.3 77,407 +8.1
  Conservative 11 0 9 -9 23.9 33.8 48,192 -7.4
  Liberal Democrats 0 0 0 0 11.2 15,937 +3.5
  Green 0 0 0 0 0.5 660 -2.0
  UKIP 0 0 0 0 0.1 183 -1.4
  Independent 0 0 0 0 0.1 89 +0.1

Labour consolidated control of the council by gaining 9 seats (in addition to the 11 they gained in 2014), winning 35 in all. The Conservatives lost 9 seats, winning 11 in all. This was the lowest number of Conservative councillors since 1986.

There were no wards with split party representation – for only the fourth time in the fifteen elections since the council was created in 1968. The previous occasions when this occurred was 1990, 1978 and the 1971 Labour landslide.

Another sign of the increased homogeneity was the number of wards where the winning party got less than 50% of the vote – just three wards this time. Ravenscourt Park with 46%, Town with 48% and Sands End with a fraction under 50%. This compares with the 2014 election when there were 6 wards including Sands End with 38%. In the 2010 election there were 10 wards including Addison with 39%. And in the 2006 election there were also 10 wards including Askew with 39%.

26 Councillors successfully retained their seats – 20 Labour and 6 Conservative. 5 sitting Councillors were defeated – all Conservative, including the previous opposition leader.[5]

The ward with the highest percentage vote for one party was Wormholt and White City which saw a 76.5% vote share for the Labour Party. This is the highest percentage any party has achieved at the five elections since these wards were established in 2002. Vote share percentages by ward for previous elections are not currently available.

The largest percentage change was in the Shepherds Bush Green ward, where the Labour Party increased its vote share by 20.9 percentage points – as the Green Party did not stand a candidate this time round. The largest percentage decrease was in the Fulham Reach ward where the Conservative vote dropped by 14.6 percentage points.

The candidate with the largest individual tally was Lisa Homan with 2,577 votes in the Askew ward. This veteran councillor has been elected on all but one occasion since 1994 – losing out in 2002 by 44 votes.

One of the successful Conservative candidates in Palace Riverside had been deselected from the same ward in 2006, and had run as an independent candidate – coming within 146 votes of winning at that election.[6]

The Liberal Democrats fielded a full slate of 46 candidates – in 2014 they put forward 39 candidates for election.

UKIP fielded 3 candidates – in 2014 they had 7 candidates.

The Green Party fielded 2 candidates – in 2014 they had 7 candidates.

There was 1 Independent candidate – the same number as in 2014, although a different individual. The 2018 independent had previously run in the same ward in the 2006 local election and in the Hammersmith constituency at the 2017 general election.

TUSC did not stand any candidates in the 2018 local elections – they had two candidates in Hammersmith and Fulham in 2014.

National Health Action Party did not field candidates in the 2018 local elections – they had a single candidate in Hammersmith and Fulham in 2014.

Ward results

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(*) represents a candidate seeking re-election in the same ward.

(~) represents a candidate seeking re-election in a different ward.

Addison

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Addison (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sue Fennimore* 1,902 54.5 +7.5
Labour Adam Connell* 1,849 52.9 +5.1
Labour Rachel Leighton 1,762 50.5 +9.1
Conservative Clare Ambrosino 1,153 33.0 −11.4
Conservative James Colquhoun 1,114 31.9 −9.8
Conservative Al Lewis 983 28.2 −13.5
Green Liz Goad 330 9.5 N/A
Liberal Democrats Laura Goeman 322 9.2 −4.7
Liberal Democrats Luke Blackett 313 9.0 N/A
Liberal Democrats Andrew Leitch 251 7.2 N/A
UKIP Maggie Casey 62 1.8 N/A
UKIP Elizabeth Jones 50 1.4 N/A
Majority 609 17.5
Turnout 41.66% −1.3%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Askew

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Askew (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lisa Homan* 2,577 68.9 +15.1
Labour Rory Vaughan* 2,515 67.3 +16.0
Labour Rowan Ree 2,466 66.0 +5.8
Conservative Dominic Masters 690 18.5 −5.8
Conservative Paul Thomas 658 17.6 −3.6
Conservative Arunasalam Yogeswaran 579 15.5 −5.0
Liberal Democrats Catherine Remy 504 13.5 +6.3
Liberal Democrats Florian Chevoppe-Verdier 468 12.5 +2.8
Liberal Democrats Janet Burden 463 12.4 +5.8
Majority 1776 47.5
Turnout 37.06% +0.1%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Avonmore and Brook Green

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Avonmore and Brook Green (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rebecca Harvey 1,807 52.0 +8.4
Labour David Morton 1,794 51.7 +12.5
Labour Fiona Smith 1,696 48.8 +12.4
Conservative Caroline Ffiske* 1,329 38.3 −4.1
Conservative Joe Carlebach* 1,299 37.4 −7.1
Conservative Will Marshall 1,170 33.7 −7.2
Liberal Democrats Billy Dann 348 10.0 +0.5
Liberal Democrats Cecile Fossy 338 9.7 +0.3
Liberal Democrats Julie Perrin 337 9.7 +1.0
Majority 367 10.5
Turnout 42.48% +5.6%
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

College Park and Old Oak

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College Park and Old Oak (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Wesley Harcourt* 1,459 73.6 +14.6
Labour Alexandra Sanderson 1,360 68.6 +5.0
Conservative Marie Higton 372 18.9 −1.9
Conservative Paul Keegan 357 18.0 +1.0
Liberal Democrats Niamh McCarthy 119 6.0 −1.4
Liberal Democrats Steve Baxter 117 5.9 N/A
Majority 988 49.7
Turnout 33.02% +1.3%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Fulham Broadway

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Fulham Broadway (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ben Coleman* 1,720 56.2 +5.9
Labour Alan de'Ath* 1,611 52.6 +3.8
Labour Sharon Holder* 1,590 51.9 +2.6
Conservative Adam Carew 1,094 35.7 −4.4
Conservative Aliya Afzal Khan 1,045 34.1 −5.3
Conservative Matt Fincham 1,028 33.6 −5.1
Liberal Democrats Natasha Farrant 267 8.7 +1.7
Liberal Democrats Penelope Stradling 260 8.5 +1.6
Liberal Democrats Michael Cook 258 8.4 +2.4
Majority 496 16.2
Turnout 37.69% −1.7%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Fulham Reach

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Fulham Reach (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christabel Cooper 2,034 60.0 +13.8
Labour Iain Cassidy* 1,976 58.3 +11.8
Labour Guy Vincent* 1,903 56.2 +13.0
Conservative Gabriel Gavin 958 28.3 −14.3
Conservative Rory Boden 956 28.2 −13.1
Conservative Dorinne Tin Ming Kaw 892 26.3 −14.5
Green Jimi Davies 330 9.7 N/A
Liberal Democrats Jenny Beardmore 320 9.4 +1.9
Liberal Democrats Rutger Wip 227 6.7 +1.5
Liberal Democrats George Cotcher-Riley 211 6.2 +1.5
Majority 945 27.9
Turnout 41.38% −0.3%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Hammersmith Broadway

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Hammersmith Broadway (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Stephen Cowan* 2,255 68.6 +15.0
Labour PJ Murphy* 2,188 66.6 +13.0
Labour Patricia Quigley 2,126 64.7 +11.6
Conservative Naomi Greaves 658 20.0 −9.3
Conservative David Rogers 644 19.6 −5.8
Conservative Younis Mageit 579 17.6 −7.4
Liberal Democrats David Burridge 407 12.4 +2.8
Liberal Democrats Jessie Venegas-Garcia 373 11.4 +2.7
Liberal Democrats Christine Longworth 340 10.3 +2.8
Majority 1468 44.7
Turnout 38.81% +1.8%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Munster

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Munster (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Adronie Alford* 1,374 51.4 −4.3
Conservative Alex Karmel* 1,367 51.1 −3.6
Conservative Dominic Stanton 1,316 49.2 −8.9
Labour Emma Cooper 900 33.6 +7.7
Labour Nikolaos Souslous 800 29.9 +6.6
Labour Leo Watson 786 29.4 +8.6
Liberal Democrats Philip Barton 406 15.2 +5.7
Liberal Democrats Ted Townsend 385 14.4 +5.3
Liberal Democrats Krystian Belliere 378 14.1 +6.1
Majority 416 15.6
Turnout 34.77% +2.7%
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

North End

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North End (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Daryl Brown* 1,944 65.6 +16.9
Labour Larry Culhane* 1,815 61.3 +16.2
Labour Zarar Qayyum 1,741 58.8 +14.4
Conservative Sophie Richards 702 23.7 −16.1
Conservative Chris Glenny 683 23.1 −14.7
Conservative Saif Lone 678 22.9 −11.9
Liberal Democrats Gillian Barnes 346 11.7 +2.3
Liberal Democrats Sarah Taylor 330 11.1 +3.2
Liberal Democrats Meher Oliaji 243 8.2 +2.1
UKIP John Lodge 71 2.4 −4.9
Majority 1039 35.1
Turnout 37.94% −1.5%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Palace Riverside

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Palace Riverside (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Amanda Lloyd-Harris 1,576 61.3 +0.1
Conservative Donald Johnson* 1,565 60.9 −4.1
Labour Clare Clifford 631 24.5 +3.8
Labour Jacolyn Daly 569 22.1 +5.3
Liberal Democrats Tamara Dragadze 363 14.1 +6.7
Liberal Democrats Alexander Bradford 349 13.6 +7.0
Majority 934 36.4
Turnout 47.01% +2.7%
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Parsons Green and Walham

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Parsons Green and Walham (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Frances Stainton* 1,800 63.2 −1.7
Conservative Mark Loveday* 1,771 62.2 −0.9
Conservative Matt Thorley 1,755 61.6 −6.4
Labour Mary Smith 612 21.5 +2.7
Labour Stephen Naulls 591 20.7 +0.4
Labour Mahdi Pour Nezami 561 19.7 +1.9
Liberal Democrats Eithne Buchanan-Barrow 420 14.7 +4.2
Liberal Democrats Caroline Mason 409 14.4 +5.8
Liberal Democrats Tony Couldrey 377 13.2 +6.0
Majority 1143 40.1
Turnout 38.26% +2.7%
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Ravenscourt Park

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Ravenscourt Park (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jonathan Caleb-Landy 1,834 45.9 +6.1
Labour Bora Kwon 1,768 44.2 +8.7
Labour Asif Siddique 1,752 43.8 +8.8
Conservative Harry Phibbs* 1,405 35.1 −7.9
Conservative Lucy Ivimy* 1,351 33.8 −12.3
Conservative Mark Higton 1,281 32.0 −11.4
Liberal Democrats Henrietta Bewley 815 20.4 +11.8
Liberal Democrats Irina Von Wiese 744 18.6 +12.5
Liberal Democrats Alison Hancock 741 18.5 +12.5
Majority 347 8.7
Turnout 50.44% +1.1%
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Sands End

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Sands End (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lucy Richardson 1,829 49.0 +10.1
Labour Ann Rosenberg 1,818 48.8 +16.7
Labour Matt Uberoi 1,714 46.0 +14.5
Conservative Jackie Borland 1,585 42.5 +0.7
Conservative Steve Hamilton* 1,500 40.2 −2.4
Conservative Tom Martin 1,484 39.8 −0.8
Liberal Democrats Raymond Burnet 342 9.2 +2.1
Liberal Democrats Gerald Milch 288 7.7 +1.5
Liberal Democrats Justin Kandiah 279 7.5 +0.7
Majority 129 3.5
Turnout 39.41% +6.8%
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Shepherds Bush Green

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Shepherds Bush Green (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andrew Jones* 2,050 68.4 +9.2
Labour Natalie Perez* 2,023 67.5 +8.6
Labour Mercy Umeh* 1,981 66.1 +10.1
Conservative Charlotte Duthie 555 18.5 −3.0
Conservative Simon Hewitt 533 17.8 −2.4
Conservative Liane Pibworth 471 15.7 −2.8
Liberal Democrats Ralph Redfern 319 10.6 +2.0
Liberal Democrats Thomas Naylor 307 10.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Paul Buchanan-Barrow 273 9.1 N/A
Majority 1426 47.6
Turnout 35.35% +0.4%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Town

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Town (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Victoria Brocklebank-Fowler 1,567 48.0 −4.4
Conservative Belinda Donovan~ 1,508 46.2 +0.1
Conservative Andrew Brown* 1,480 45.3 −5.5
Labour Nick Buckley 1,354 41.5 +17.2
Labour Helen Rowbottom 1,339 41.0 +17.1
Labour James Doheny 1,255 38.4 +16.5
Liberal Democrats Azi Ahmed 328 10.0 −10.1
Liberal Democrats Henry Bagwell 328 10.0 −9.2
Liberal Democrats Graham Muir 323 9.9 −4.7
Majority 126 3.8
Turnout 41.70% +9.4%
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Wormholt and White City

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Wormholt and White City (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Colin Aherne* 2,493 77.7 +9.3
Labour Sue Macmillan* 2,396 74.7 +12.7
Labour Max Schmid* 2,261 70.5 +13.7
Conservative Nick Botterill~ 473 14.7 −2.8
Conservative James O'Donohoe 450 14.0 −2.4
Conservative Amir Sadjady 404 12.6 −3.0
Liberal Democrats Oscar Tapper 242 7.5 +2.2
Liberal Democrats Mark Anderson 187 5.8 N/A
Liberal Democrats Stephen Morris 172 5.4 N/A
Independent Jagdeo Hauzaree 89 2.8 N/A
Majority 1788 55.8
Turnout 35.11% −1.9%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

By-elections

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Fulham Broadway

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A by-election was held in Fulham Broadway after the resignation of Councillor Alan de'Ath on 19 September 2019.

Fulham Broadway: 19 September 2019[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Rowbottom 1,097 44.2 −8.4
Liberal Democrats Jessie Venegas 755 30.4 +21.7
Conservative Aliya Afzal Khan 628 25.3 −8.8
Majority 342 13.8
Turnout 2,480 31.7 −6.0
Labour hold Swing

Wormholt & White City

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A by-election was held in Wormholt & White City following the death of Councillor Colin Aherne on 11 July 2021.[8]

Wormholt & White City: 23 September 2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frances Umeh 1,462 70.0 −5.6
Conservative Constance Campbell 431 20.6 +6.3
Green Naranee Ruthra-Rajan 110 5.3 N/A
Liberal Democrats Michael Illingworth 86 4.1 −3.2
Majority 1,031 49.4
Turnout 2,089 22.6
Labour hold Swing  6.0

References

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  1. ^ "Local Election Summaries 2018". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council".
  3. ^ a b "2018 council election results". 10 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Borough Council Election Results 2014". datapress.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Hammersmith and Fulham local elections: Tory leader loses seat". 4 May 2018.
  6. ^ Knowles, Katherine (13 April 2006). "Tories deselect single mother and gay Arab". Pink News. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  7. ^ "2019 Fulham Broadway ward by-election". Hammersmith & Fulham Borough Council. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Tribute to Colin Aherne from H&F Leader Stephen Cowan". 12 July 2021.