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2022 Islington London Borough Council election

The 2022 Islington London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 51 members of Islington London Borough Council were to be elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

2022 Islington Council election
← 2018 5 May 2022 2026 →
All 51 council seats
  First party Second party
 
Leader Kaya Comer-Schwartz Caroline Russell
Party Labour Green
Last election 47 seats, 60.6% 1 seat, 16.4%
Seats won 48 3
Seat change Increase1 Increase2
Popular vote 80,582 33,279
Percentage 54.2% 22.4%
Swing Decrease6.4% Increase6.0%
Map of the results of the 2022 Islington council election. Greens in green and Labour in red.
council control before election


Labour

Subsequent council control


Labour

In the previous election in 2018, the Labour Party maintained its control of the council, winning 47 out of the 48 seats with the Green Party providing the only opposition councillor, Caroline Russell. The 2022 election took place under new election boundaries, with an increase in the number of councillors to 51.

Background

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History

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Result of the 2018 borough election

The thirty-two London boroughs were established in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. 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.[1]

Since its formation, Islington has been under Labour control, Conservative control, Liberal Democrat control, Social Democratic Party control and no overall control. Labour most recently gained control of the council in the 2010 election, winning 35 seats to the Liberal Democrats' 13 seats. The Liberal Democrats lost all their remaining seats in the 2014 election, with Labour winning 47 and the Green Party's Caroline Russell winning a single seat in Highbury East. In the most recent election in 2018, Labour held their 47 seats with 60.6% of the vote across the borough while Russell held her seat for the Green Party, with the Greens winning 16.4% of the vote across the borough. The Liberal Democrats won 12.3% of the vote and the Conservatives won 9.7% of the vote, but neither won any seats.[2]

Council term

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A Labour councillor for St George's ward, Kat Fletcher, resigned in November 2019. A by-election to replace her was held on 12 December 2019, coinciding with the 2019 general election.[3] The Labour candidate Gulcin Ozdemir, who worked as a social housing advocate, successfully defended the seat, with the Green Party candidate coming in second place.[4]

Gary Poole, a Labour councillor, left his party to sit as an independent in July 2019 citing antisemitism, saying he hoped to rejoin in the future.[5] In October 2020, the Labour councillor Rakhia Ismail left her party, saying she had faced racism in the party.[6] She joined the Conservative Party in November 2020.[7] A Labour councillor for Hollway ward, Paul Smith, resigned in January 2021.[8]

A Labour councillor for Bunhill, Claudia Webbe, was elected as MP for Leicester East in the 2019 general election. She resigned as a councillor in March 2021 as a by-election to replace her was not possible until May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] In March 2021, three Labour councillors announced their resignations: Andy Hull of Highbury West ward because his family were moving to Morocco; Joe Calouri of Mildmay ward because of work and family commitments; and Vivien Cutler of St Peter's ward.[10] By-elections for all five seats were held on 6 May 2021 alongside the 2021 London mayoral election and London Assembly election.[11] Some of the elections were contested by independent candidates opposed to low traffic neighbourhoods.[11] Labour held all five seats: Valerie Bossman-Quarshie won Bunhill, Bashir Ibrahim won Highbury West, Jason Jackson won Holloway, Angelo Weekes won Mildmay and Toby North won St Peter's.[12] The Green Party came second in three wards and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came second in one ward each.[13]

Richard Watts stood down as council leader and leader of the Labour group in 2021, and Kaya Comer-Schwartz was chosen unopposed to take over. Comer-Schwartz had served as deputy leader of the council since 2020 and had previously worked for a mental health charity.[14]

As with most London boroughs, Islington will be electing its councillors under new boundaries decided by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, which it produced after a period of consulation. The number of councillors will rise to 51, an increase from the previous 48, across seventeen three-councillor wards.[15]

Campaign

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In March 2022, groups of residents supportive and opposed to Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes protested Islington Town Hall ahead of a debate triggered by an anti-low traffic neighbourhood petition. One attendee, the driving instructor David Corringall, cited the schemes as the reason he was standing as a Conservative candidate.[16]

Electoral process

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Islington, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. This election used multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by three councillors. Electors had as many votes as there were councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three being elected.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in London aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who lived at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities.[17] Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.[17]

Previous council composition

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    Council composition after the 2018 election
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    Council composition ahead of the 2022 election
After 2018 election Before 2022 election
Party Seats Party Seats
Labour 47 Labour 45
Green 1 Green 1
Conservative 1
Independent 1

Results summary

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2022 Islington London Borough Council
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 48 0 0   1 94.1 54.6 85,031 -6.0
  Green 3 0 0   2 5.9 22.1 34,466 +5.7
  Liberal Democrats 0 0 0   0.0 11.7 18,159 -0.6
  Conservative 0 0 0   0.0 11.2 17,425 +1.5
  Independent 0 0 0   0.0 0.2 270 N/A
  Communist 0 0 0   0.0 0.1 97 N/A
  TUSC 0 0 0   0.0 0.1 92 N/A
  Reform UK 0 0 0   0.0 0.0 51 N/A
  SDP 0 0 0   0.0 0.0 34 N/A

Ward results

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Arsenal

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Arsenal (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Fin Craig 1,808 55.2
Labour Bashir Ibrahim 1,801 55.0
Labour Roulin Khondoker 1,710 52.2
Green Nicola Baird 910 27.8
Green Mary Elizabeth De Cinque 710 21.7
Green Jeremy Drew 618 18.9
Liberal Democrats Gabby Mann 468 14.3
Liberal Democrats Barbara Grace Smith 393 12.0
Liberal Democrats Philip David Middleton 368 11.2
Conservative Mark Flynn 324 9.9
Conservative Rachel Anne Henry 319 9.7
Conservative Ebu Bekir Cetinkaya 293 9.0
Communist Robin Talbot 97 3.0
Turnout 36.9
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Barnsbury

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Barnsbury (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rowena Elizabeth Champion 1,754 57.3
Labour Jilani Chowdhury 1,565 51.1
Labour Praful Nargund 1,425 46.6
Green Carmela Bromhead Jones 772 25.2
Conservative Vanessa Margaret Carson 560 18.3
Conservative Peter McMahon 505 16.5
Conservative Tam Kocak-Bass 498 16.3
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Arthur Hargreaves 454 14.8
Green John Ashton Hartley 440 14.4
Liberal Democrats Michael Benedict Champness 438 14.3
Green Jake Gerard Williams 412 13.5
Liberal Democrats Erwann Patrick Michel Le Lannou 360 11.8
Turnout 37.1
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Bunhill

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Bunhill (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Valerie Bossman-Quarshie 1,277 61.5
Labour Troy Martin Gallagher 1,174 56.6
Labour Philip Graham 1,057 50.9
Green Catherine Louise Webb 382 18.4
Conservative Max Campbell 379 18.3
Conservative Zak Vora 337 16.2
Conservative Alyson Theresa Prince 336 16.2
Green Andrew Richard Myer 285 13.7
Liberal Democrats John Kenny 252 12.1
Liberal Democrats Adrian Charles Reeves Hall 245 11.8
Green Andrew Tobert 210 10.1
Liberal Democrats Robert Minikin 206 9.9
Reform UK David Angus Small 51 2.5
SDP Jake Painter 34 1.6
Turnout 30.3
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Caledonian

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Caledonian (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Edmond Convery 1,508 66.8
Labour Sara Kathryn Sabres Hyde 1,490 66.0
Labour Una Mary O'Halloran 1,450 64.2
Green Vivien Deloge 336 14.9
Green Alex Gordon 309 13.7
Conservative Stuart Cottis 289 12.8
Green Bernadette Ann Wren 280 12.4
Conservative Simon William Johnson 278 12.3
Conservative Amo Kalar 250 11.1
Liberal Democrats Madeleine Isobel Martin 204 9.0
Liberal Democrats Peter Gorden Bye 203 9.0
Liberal Democrats Walera Martynchyk 177 7.8
Turnout 32.0
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Canonbury

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Canonbury (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Jeapes 1,609 54.4
Labour Nick Wayne 1,445 48.8
Labour John Woolf 1,401 47.3
Conservative Michael Jefferson 557 18.8
Green Talia Joan Hussain 543 18.3
Conservative Haiwei Li 539 18.2
Green Chloe Rice 526 17.8
Conservative Joe Mehmet 524 17.7
Liberal Democrats Emma Elizabeth Victoria Richardson 470 15.9
Liberal Democrats James Robert Bacchus 435 14.7
Liberal Democrats Samuel James Addison Coldicutt 419 14.2
Green Chris Radway 410 13.9
Turnout 33.8
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Clerkenwell

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Clerkenwell (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ruth Hayes 1,352 54.1
Labour Ben Ian Mackmurdie 1,209 48.4
Labour Matt Nathan 1,199 48.0
Green Bronwen James 473 18.9
Liberal Democrats George Edwin Allan 458 18.3
Green Janet Dowling Gormley 453 18.1
Liberal Democrats Helen Judith Redesdale 416 16.7
Conservative Alexander Jesse Baker 406 16.3
Liberal Democrats Jason Phillip Vickers 405 16.2
Conservative Lewis Anthony Cox 404 16.2
Conservative Mags Joseph 379 15.2
Green Cecilie Hestbaek 340 13.6
Turnout 33.7
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Finsbury Park

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Finsbury Park (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Asima Shaikh 1,941 68.6
Labour Gary Frederick John Heather 1,905 67.3
Labour Mick O'Sullivan 1,759 62.1
Green Helena Farstad McKeown 579 20.5
Green Natalie Jane Koffman 527 18.6
Green Timothy John Fry 444 15.7
Independent Sadia Ahmed-Nur Ali 270 9.5
Liberal Democrats Heather Eggins 243 8.6
Liberal Democrats Keith Richard Sharp 195 6.9
Conservative William Fitzalan Howard 166 5.9
Conservative Katherine Mulhern 166 5.9
Conservative Henry James Mitson 158 5.6
Liberal Democrats Paul Martin Smith 139 4.9
Turnout 31.9
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Highbury

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Highbury (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Caroline Russell* 2,282 52.5
Green Benali Hamdache 1,934 44.5
Green Ernestas Jegorovas-Armstrong 1,803 41.5
Labour Sue Lukes* 1,574 36.2
Labour Minda Burgos-Lukes 1,507 34.7
Labour Talal Karim 1,367 31.5
Liberal Democrats Ketish Pothalingam 521 12.0
Liberal Democrats Philip Andrew Stevens 498 11.5
Liberal Democrats Paul William Symes 408 9.4
Conservative Mark Eldridge 384 8.8
Conservative Robert Deering 381 8.8
Conservative Laura Mary Knightley 379 8.7
Turnout 44.7
Green win (new seat)
Green win (new seat)
Green win (new seat)

Hillrise

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Hillrise (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Dave Poyser 2,453 66.3
Labour Michelline Safi Ngongo 2,450 66.2
Labour Marian Spall 2,429 65.7
Green Susan Katherine Lees 840 22.7
Green Leah Natasha Partridge 701 18.9
Green Niall Creech 656 17.7
Liberal Democrats Mark Pack 386 10.4
Liberal Democrats Paul Massey 305 8.2
Conservative Jon Harrison 252 6.8
Conservative Janet Mary Cronshaw 250 6.8
Conservative Rastgon Aziz 238 6.4
Liberal Democrats Paul Martin Smith 139 3.8
Turnout 36.4
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Holloway

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Holloway (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jason Jackson 1,863 64.9
Labour Claire Louise Zammit 1,847 64.3
Labour Diarmaid John Ward 1,792 62.4
Green Claire Louise Poyner 532 18.5
Green Nikita Hiren Desai 531 18.5
Green William Durrant English 352 12.3
Liberal Democrats Mark Atkinson 322 11.2
Conservative Andrew James Harrison 284 9.9
Liberal Democrats Andrew Charles Hyett 263 9.2
Conservative Justin Rigby 256 8.9
Conservative John Alan Wilkin 243 8.5
Liberal Democrats Christopher Timothy Forbes Johnson 241 8.4
TUSC Omer Esen 92 3.2
Turnout 35.7
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Junction

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Junction (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Janet Diane Burgess 2,111 68.0
Labour Kaya Comer-Schwartz 2,004 64.5
Labour Sheila Marion Chapman 2,001 64.4
Green Olivia Clare Parthenope Brunning 761 24.5
Green Paul Nicholas Elliott 545 17.6
Green David Joseph Zell 507 16.3
Conservative Kim Andrews 279 9.0
Conservative Jonathan Owen Elvin 252 8.1
Liberal Democrats Stefan Antoni Kasprzyk 240 7.7
Conservative Nigel Timothy Seay 240 7.7
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Daniel Taylor 194 6.2
Liberal Democrats Ufi Ibrahim 182 5.9
Turnout 35.3
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Laycock

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Laycock (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Heather Nicola Staff 1,622 59.1
Labour Ilkay Cinko-Oner 1,603 58.4
Labour Nurullah Turan 1,506 54.8
Green Jenni Chan 603 22.0
Green Jara Falkenburg 506 18.4
Green Nathan Stilwell 390 14.2
Conservative David John Corrigall 369 13.4
Conservative Alexandra Catherine Eldridge 367 13.4
Conservative Ewan MacLeod 358 13.0
Liberal Democrats Pierre Henri Daniel Delarue 341 12.4
Liberal Democrats David Paul Sant 302 11.0
Liberal Democrats Jack Joseph Charlie Taylor 273 9.9
Turnout 33.1
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Mildmay

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Mildmay (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jenny Kay 1,960 62.3
Labour Santiago Jaime Andrew Bell-Bradford 1,893 60.2
Labour Angelo Ricardo Weekes 1,737 55.2
Green Zoe Esme Alzamora 780 24.8
Green Conor Moloney 571 18.2
Green Dudley Ross 513 16.3
Conservative Caroline Gallagher 351 11.2
Liberal Democrats Nadine Claire Mellor 340 10.8
Liberal Democrats Julie Yvonne Whittaker 330 10.5
Conservative Thomas Hamilton 328 10.4
Liberal Democrats John Cotton 319 10.1
Conservative Pedro Danilo Capitani 316 10.0
Turnout 33.7
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

St Mary's & St James'

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St Mary's & St James' (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hannah Victoria McHugh 1,421 42.9
Labour Joseph Andrew Croft 1,320 39.8
Labour Saiqa Pandor 1,269 38.3
Liberal Democrats Kate Elizabeth Pothalingam 1,158 34.9
Liberal Democrats Terry Stacey 1,011 30.5
Liberal Democrats Maxx Turing 991 29.9
Green Joy Patricia Hinson 564 17.0
Conservative Bex Kelly 519 15.7
Conservative Harry Nugent 494 14.9
Conservative Will Woodroofe 446 13.5
Green Chris Procter 423 12.8
Green Adrian Robert Williams 324 9.8
Turnout 41.2
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

St Peter's & Canalside

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St Peter's & Canalside (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Martin Geoffrey Klute 1,228 50.8
Labour Rosaline Ifechukwude Ogunro 1,183 48.9
Labour Toby Alexander North 1,175 48.6
Conservative Muhammad Kalaam 551 22.8
Conservative Nick Brainsby 525 21.7
Conservative Jack Gilmore 522 21.6
Liberal Democrats Sarah Ann Ludford 449 18.6
Liberal Democrats Hilly Janes 358 14.8
Green Sophie Van Der Ham 353 14.6
Green Wendy Bronwen Proudfoot 336 13.9
Green Jonathan Michael Deamer 302 12.5
Liberal Democrats Caspar James Tudor Woolley 274 11.3
Turnout 33.1
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Tollington

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Tollington (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Anjna Khurana 2,148 63.1
Labour Flora Suzanne Williamson 2,093 61.5
Labour Mick Gilgunn 2,018 59.3
Green Ann Boater 1,064 31.3
Green Jonathan Barnaby Ward 767 22.5
Green Robin Walter Latimer 710 20.9
Liberal Democrats Lidia Ivona Erlichman 286 8.4
Liberal Democrats Julian Thomas Gregory 256 7.5
Liberal Democrats Jame Alun Nicolov 234 6.9
Conservative Steve McMinnies 220 6.5
Conservative Andrea O'Halloran 214 6.3
Conservative Retha Mhach 203 6.0
Turnout 36.2
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Tufnell Park

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Tufnell Park (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tricia Clarke 2,002 53.1
Labour Satnam Gill 1,887 50.1
Labour Gulcin Ozdemir* 1,728 45.8
Green Devon Osborne 1,604 42.6
Green Rod Gonggrijp 1,568 41.6
Green Jon Nott 1,393 37.0
Conservative Tracy Flynn 208 5.5
Liberal Democrats Rupert Redesdale 202 5.4
Liberal Democrats David Wilson 201 5.3
Liberal Democrats Axel Koelsch 187 5.0
Conservative Caitlin Smith 168 4.5
Conservative Jonathan Lang 161 4.3
Turnout 44.1
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Changes 2022–2026

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Hillrise by-election, 2 May 2024[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ollie Steadman 2,824 62.8  3.3
Green Alex Nettle 1,095 24.3  4.5
Liberal Democrats Rebecca Taylor 577 12.8  5.3
Turnout 4,597 47.3
Labour hold

The Hillrise by-election was triggered by the resignation of Labour councillor Dave Poyser.[19]

Hillrise by-election, 15 August 2024[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shreya Nanda 968 43.35  19.5
Independent Alison Stoker 539 24.1 N/A
Liberal Democrats Imogen Wall 350 15.67  3.5
Green Alex Nettle 322 14.42  9.9
Independent Maxim Parr-Reid 54 2.4 N/A
Turnout 2,243 20.5  26.8
Labour hold

The by-election took place on 15 August 2024, following the resignation of Labour Councillor Ollie Steadman after serving 69 days since the May 2024 by-election. [21]

References

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