London local elections, 2014

2010 ←

22 May 2014

→ 2018

All 1,851 councillors on all 32 London boroughs

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ed Miliband	David Cameron	Nick Clegg
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	25 September 2010	6 December 2005	18 December 2007
Percentage	37.4%	26.1%	10.2%
Swing	4.8%	5.9%	11.8%
Councils	20	9	1
Councils +/–	3	2	1
Councillors	1,060	612	116
Councillors +/–	185	105	130

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Nigel Farage	Natalie Bennett	Lutfur Rahman
Party	UKIP	Green	Tower Hamlets First
Leader since	5 November 2010	3 September 2012	18 September 2013
Popular vote	10.0%	9.9%	1.1%
Swing	8.9%	3.3%	New party
Councils	0	0	0
Councils +/–
Councillors	12	4	18
Councillors +/–	12	2	18

London borough councils by political control following election. Councils that are Labour are in red, Conservative in blue, Liberal Democrat in yellow and two in no overall control party-politically are in black.

There were local government elections in London on Thursday 22 May 2014. All councillor seats on the 32 London borough councils were up for election. The electorates of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets also elected their executive mayors, who operate in place of council leaders in those boroughs. Ward changes took place in Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, and Tower Hamlets, which reduced the total number of councillors by 10 to 1,851. Both the mayoral and councillor elections are four-yearly.

The results saw the Labour Party achieve their best result in over 40 years, winning 1,060 councillors and control of 20 out of 32 councils. Only the elections of 1964, 1971 and 1974 have seen Labour win more than 1,060 council seats in London, and Labour has not controlled 20 councils or more since 1971. However, their share of the vote was only 37%, and they lost Tower Hamlets council to no overall control, with Tower Hamlets First winning 18 seats in the borough.

The Liberal Democrat vote collapsed, with the party losing more than half its vote share, losing 130 council seats and retaining control of just 1 council out of 32. The Conservatives lost 2 councils, 105 councillors and their popular vote share declined by 6%.

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