Local elections 2026: All the London results so far

Millions of Londoners have voted to elect their councillors across the capital’s 32 boroughs.

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Some 1,817 local authority seats are up for grabs in the city, while residents of Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets also selected their mayors.

Labour is defending the most town halls, with the party winning 21 at the last local election in 2022 when in most boroughs it was a straight fight between two of the mainstream parties.

But polls suggest Sir Keir Starmer ’s party is facing a significant threat from the Greens in inner boroughs and independent candidates in east London .

The Conservatives won six councils at the last local elections , while the Liberal Democrats controlled three.

Tower Hamlets has been run by the independent left-wing Aspire party for the last four years and Havering was under no overall control.

Reform UK , which officially rebranded from the Brexit Party in January 2021, did not win any seats last time round.

Nigel Farage’s party has won its first London borough in Havering, but failed to claim its targets of Bexley and Bromley from the Tories.

Live map of local election results in London
Who won London elections: Results so far
Labour’s Forhad Hussain has won the mayoral race in Newham, while the Green Party’s Zoe Garbett took the job in Hackney along with Green candidate Liam Shrivastava in Lewisham.

In Croydon, the Conservatives held on to the mayoralty as Jason Perry was re-elected.

Bromley (Total number of seats: 58)
Kingston-upon-Thames (Total number of seats: 48)
Winner: Liberal Democrats (hold)
Hillingdon (Total number of seats: 53)
Waltham Forest (Total number of seats: 60)
Winner: Counting still underway
Richmond upon Thames (Total number of seats: 54)
Sutton (Total number of seats: 55)
Wandsworth (Total number of seats: 58)
Winner: No Overall Control (Labour loss)
Merton (Total number of seats: 57)
Hammersmith & Fulham (Total number of seats: 50)
Ealing (Total number of seats: 70)
Westminster (Total number of seats: 54)
Winner: Conservatives (gain from Labour)
Bexley (Total number of seats: 40)
Havering (Total number of seats: 55)
Winner: Reform (from no overall control)
Residents’ Association: 14 (-15)
Kensington and Chelsea (Total number of seats: 50)