Lambeth Council election, 2006

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4 May 2006

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All council seats

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Steve Reed	Peter Truesdale	John Whelan
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrat	Conservative
Leader since	September 2002	1998	1998
Leader's seat	Brixton Hill	Bishop's	Thurlow Park
Last election	28 seats, 39.8%	28 seats, 35.9%	7 seats, 17.9%
Seats won	39	17	6
Seat change	11	11	1
Popular vote	53,925	52,209	34,667
Percentage	39.7%	29.1%	19.2%
Swing	0.1%	6.8%	1.3%

	Fourth party

Leader	Rebecca Thackray
Party	Green
Leader since	4 May 2006
Leader's seat	Herne Hill
Last election	0 seats, 5.5%
Seats won	1
Seat change	1
Popular vote	17,560
Percentage	9.7%
Swing	4.2%

Leader of Largest Party before election

Peter Truesdale
Liberal Democrat

Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Steve Reed
Labour

Peter Truesdale
Liberal Democrat

Steve Reed
Labour

Elections to Lambeth London Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election with no boundary changes since the last election in 2002. The Labour party gained control of the council, replacing the Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition that had run the council since the previous election.

The election was notable for the Labour Party managing to win control of the borough despite a marginal fall in its overall percentage share of the vote. Labour taking Lambeth was also against the trend of the 2006 local election body elections which saw Labour lose control of 18 councils with a loss of 319 councillors.

Also significant was the election of Lambeth's first Green Party councillor, one of many gains for the Party across London. The Green Party took nearly 10% of the vote across the borough.

Local Election Result 2006

* - Existing Councillor seeking re-election.

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