Claire Timms
BBC London News

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Bromley Council will remain in Conservative control following the 2022 local elections despite the party suffering some unexpected losses.

Results in the Tory stronghold saw the Conservatives left with 14 fewer councillors than in 2018, slicing their majority from 21 to 6 when boundary changes are taken into account.

Fifty-eight councillors were elected across 22 wards to represent Bromley until May 2026.

The election was contested by six different parties and a number of independent candidates.

Labour remain the official opposition after winning 12 seats, up from eight in 2018.

Elsewhere, the Liberal Democrats are back on Bromley council after taking three seats off the Tories in Bromley Town, while independent party Chislehurst Matters pulled off a stunning victory to win all three seats in Chislehurst.

The Conservative seat losses comes after weeks of negative headlines about the national party regarding topics like the cost of living crisis.

Bromley Conservative Leader Colin Smith admitted it had not been an ideal set of results after winning in his ward of Bickley.

He said: “Today’s result in Bickley is tinged with an element of regret it must be said. We’ve lost some outstanding councillors around parts of the ward.

“Nothing can be done about that now, we move forward with our big programme over the next four years and it starts today.”

Labour have held Newham Council.

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Labour retained Greenwich Council at the 2022 local elections and almost wiped out the opposition in the process.

The Conservatives’ dismal results saw their leader, Nigel Fletcher, lose his seat as they fell from nine councillors at the last election to only three.

Labour increased its majority to 49, also helped by boundary changes.

Fifty-five council seats were being contested among 23 wards, with eight parties and one independent candidate all going for votes.

Victorious Labour claimed 52 seats and the Conservative Party won three.

Despite a lot of hope and expectation, the Liberal Democrats and Greens did not win a single seat.

The results represent an overwhelming win for Greenwich Labour, who have been in charge of this borough since 1971.

The win comes despite local criticism over the council’s handling over the Silvertown Tunnel and low-traffic neighbourhoods.

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Labour candidates won every seat in Lewisham for a second time.

Labour fought off a Green threat in Brockley to retain all 54 seats across the south-east London borough – as in 2018.

Labour’s Damien Egan was re-elected mayor with an increased share of the vote. Mr Egan swept to victory with 58% of the vote – 4% higher than in the last election in 2018.

Green candidate Nick Humberstone beat Conservative candidate Caroline Attfield into third place.

In a statement posted on Twitter, Mr Egan said: “Thank you for everyone’s support and re-electing me as your mayor. It’s been a big team effort, thank you to everyone who’s given up their time to help. Looking forward to working for everyone in Lewisham. “

In Brockley, where the Greens had hoped to repeat their success in 2014, Labour took all three seats again.

Green candidate Deborah Le Cand-Hardwood, finished in fourth place with 1,153 votes – almost 800 votes less than the nearest Labour candidate.

Following the election success, high on Mr Egan’s priority list will be tackling Lewisham’s growing housing crisis. The borough has over 10,000 people waiting for a council home.

The results mean the Greens have now been without a councillor in Lewisham since 2018 when John Coughlin lost his seat.

The Lib Dems and Conservatives have failed to elect a councillor in the borough for over a decade.

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It's not so much a Green wall but certainly a Green step in Islington as the party took control of three seats on the council – dethroning a senior Labour councillor in the process.

Caroline Russell is joined by Benali Hamdache and Ernestas Jegorvas-Armstrong in Highbury ward in an upset for the Labour party.

It means Sue Lukes, the Labour executive member for community safety, and her daughter Minda Burgos-Lukes were foiled in their candidature for the same ward, which came about because of boundary changes.

Overall, Labour has 48 councillors, including in the new Laycock ward, with three Green opponents.

Ms Russell pledged to “work hard to represent Highbury residents in the council chamber and be a constructive opposition”.

The controversial low traffic neighbourhoods became a love-them-or-hate-them issue.

Some voters say they cut traffic and air pollution and encourage cycling. Others say they divert traffic and make journeys longer.

The Conservatives promised to scrap LTNs but went unrewarded at the ballot box, failing to win any seats.

Voters were also concerned about the rising cost of living and the climate emergency.

Islington is one of the London boroughs thought to be most at risk from flooding and overheating because of the climate emergency. It means the Green party’s is now the official opposition at Upper Street.

The Conservatives have held Bromley

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The Liberal Democrats have easily retained control of Kingston-upon-Thames Council in south-west London.

It is a victory which has seen them keep or win all 27 seats declared so far – with 21 to go.

Kingston has been a Lib Dem stronghold since the party seized control from the Tories in 2018.

Despite the borough’s sky-high council tax emerging as a key issue threatening the party this year, the Lib Dems have secured a comfortable victory.

Former Tory mayor Cllr Roy Arora even failed to defend his seat in Coombe Vale – now represented by three Lib Dems.

Before today, Kingston had 37 Lib Dem councillors, eight Tories and two independents.

The controversial proposed redevelopment of the Kingfisher Leisure Centre also proved a hot topic for locals leading into the election, after the Lib Dem council voted to knock it down in September 2021.

Councillors later voted against a petition signed by 3,869 residents to stop the demolition of the centre.

The issue led to Lib Dem councillor Jon Tolley, who represented the ward, resigning from the party last year.

Boundary changes mean the number of wards in the borough has increased from 16 to 19, but the number of councillors has remained the same at 48.

Labour has won three major victories in London, taking Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet councils.

Helen Hoddinott
Journalist

What's happened here in Harrow today will probably be seen as a saving grace on a day that's been pretty tricky for the Conservative Party in London.

I got here to the count at around mid-afternoon and already there were murmurings that the Tories might be able to win here as candidates were making victories in wards considered to be Labour strongholds.

Then, just before 17:00 BST the Conservative victory was announced. Thirty-ine seats to Labour's 24. So a fairly confident majority of seven.

Labour has held Harrow since 2010 and then has managed, not a massive majority in each election since, but enough to keep in power but I'm told the Conservatives in this election campaigned hard on local issues like LTNs and council tax and didn't try to distance themselves form the Conservative Party nationally.

Labour has held Lambeth Council.

Labour has won in Hackney and retains control of the council.

Philip Glanville, the Labour mayoral candidate, was also re-elected earlier.

Lutfur Rahman has beaten Labour's John Biggs to become Tower Hamlets' mayor.

The Aspire candidate and former mayor was previously removed from the office and banned for five years having been found guilty of election fraud.

He was declared the victor after second preference votes were counted.

Labour increased its number of seats in Greenwich, winning 52 compared to 45 in the last election.

The Conservatives won three seats.

Labour has retained Haringey Council, with the Lib Dems coming second.

We'll have analysis from the Local Democracy Reporting Service in just a minute.

Kingston-upon-Thames has been held by the Lib Dems.

The party won 36 seats with the Tories coming second with nine.

Analysis from the Local Democracy Reporting Service will follow shortly.

Lewisham has held the south-east borough of Lewisham, winning all 54 seats.

We'll have analysis shortly from the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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The Conservatives clinched a shock victory in Harrow, offering the party a spark of hope on what was a difficult night in London.

The Tories assumed overall control of the council for the first time since 2006. Voters elected 31 Conservatives, edging out Labour, who took 24 seats.

It means the new Tory administration will have a majority of seven. New ward boundaries meant there were just 55 seats up for grabs, eight fewer than in 2018.

Closely fought wards included North Harrow, where long-standing Tory councillors Chris Baxter and Janet Mote won by just a handful of votes.

The Conservatives began celebrating when they managed to win two seats in the previously Labour-held Edgware ward.

They then stole a further seat in the Labour stronghold of Rayners Lane to give them real belief.

Paul Osborn, the new leader of Harrow Council, described the result as a “big day for Harrow” which showed the Conservatives “can win in London”.

He cited high council tax and fears over tall buildings as reasons for why people chose not to vote Labour.

Harrow was seen as a soft target seat for the Conservatives in London, with suggestions it could go either way right up until polling day.

The Tories had attacked Labour’s approach to street cleaning and tackling fly-tipping in the borough, as well as the fact council tax had been raised by the maximum amount for the eighth consecutive year.

They were critical of the administration’s handling of the ‘streetspace’ programme, which saw controversial low-traffic neighbourhoods and pop-up cycle lanes installed and later removed following public outcry – at a cost of £75,000.

Tolu Adeoye
Reporter, BBC London

The first preference votes are in in the Tower Hamlets mayoral election and Luftur Rahman is currently leading.

The Aspire candidate who previously held the post but was removed from office has 39,533 votes while current mayor John Biggs is in second place with 27,894.

The threshold for a win is 42,063 which means it’s now gone on to second preference votes.