2014 London local elections

2014 London local elections
All 1,851 councillors on all 32 London boroughs
Turnout	38.9% (23.1%)
	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 London Labour achieve their best result in over 40 years, winning 1,060 councillors, control of 20 out of 32 councils and 38% of the popular vote (their highest since 1998). 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. This result was subsequently surpassed by the party's performance in the 2018 elections.

The London Conservatives dropped to their lowest-ever percentage of the vote in a London local election, at just 26.4%, and fell to their lowest councillor total since 1998. The London Liberal Democrats' vote halved, with the party dropping to 11% of the popular vote and 116 seats (down 130), the worst result for the Lib Dems or the Liberals since 1978.

The election saw a record vote for parties outside the 3 major parties, with UKIP, the London Green Party, independents and other minor parties winning a collective 25.4% of the vote, the highest since the creation of the London Boroughs in 1964. 63 minor party or independent councillors were elected in total.

UKIP and the Greens saw their best-ever results in terms of vote share (9.8% for the Greens and 9.5% for UKIP), but whilst UKIP gained 12 seats, the Greens gained just 2.

Following the elections, two of the thirty two London borough councils were in no overall control, a decrease of one. All four mayoral elections returned the incumbent mayors: 3 Labour and 1 Tower Hamlets First.

Results summary

	Votes won	% votes	Change	Seats	% seats	Change	Councils	Change
Labour	944,967	37.6	5.1	1,060	57.3	185	20	3
Conservative	663,847	26.4	5.3	612	33.1	105	9	2
Liberal Democrats	267,769	10.6	11.8	116	6.3	130	1	1
Green	246,805	9.8	3.2	4	0.2	2	0
UKIP	239,001	9.5	8.4	12	0.6	12	0
Others	152,684	6.1	0.4	47	2.5	26	0
No overall control	—						2	6

Turnout: 2,284,882 voters cast ballots, a turnout of 38.9% (−23.1%).^[2]

Councils results

Council	Overall result				Cons.	Lab.	Lib. Dem.	UKIP	Green	Others	Turnout	Council election
Council	2010		2014^[3]		Cons.	Lab.	Lib. Dem.	UKIP	Green	Others	Turnout	Council election
Barking and Dagenham		Labour		Labour		51					38.16%	Details
Barnet		Conservative		Conservative	32	30	1				41.10%	Details
Bexley		Conservative		Conservative	45	15		3				Details
Brent		Labour		Labour	6	56	1				33.00%	Details
Bromley		Conservative		Conservative	51	7		2				Details
Camden		Labour		Labour	12	40	1		1		38.69%	Details
Croydon		Conservative		Labour	30	40					38.00%	Details
Ealing		Labour		Labour	12	53	4				41.30%	Details
Enfield		Labour		Labour	22	41					37.79%	Details
Greenwich		Labour		Labour	8	43					37.25%	Details
Hackney		Labour		Labour	4	50	3				42.89%	Details
Hammersmith and Fulham		Conservative		Labour	20	26					38.00%	Details
Haringey		Labour		Labour		48	9				38.10%	Details
Harrow		No overall control		Labour	26	34	1			2^{[others 1]}	41.00%	Details
Havering		Conservative		No overall control	22	1		7		24^{[others 2]}		Details
Hillingdon		Conservative		Conservative	42	23					35.76%	Details
Hounslow		Labour		Labour	11	49					36.80%	Details
Islington		Labour		Labour		47			1		38.40%	Details
Kensington and Chelsea		Conservative		Conservative	37	12	1					Details
Kingston upon Thames		Liberal Democrats		Conservative	28	2	18					Details
Lambeth		Labour		Labour	3	59			1		32.00%	Details
Lewisham		Labour		Labour		53			1			Details
Merton		No overall control		Labour	20	36	1			3^{[others 3]}	41.00%	Details
Newham		Labour		Labour		60					40.62%	Details
Redbridge		No overall control		Labour	25	35	3				39.70%	Details
Richmond upon Thames		Conservative		Conservative	39		15				46.30%	Details
Southwark		Labour		Labour	2	48	13					Details
Sutton		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	9		45				42.20%	Details
Tower Hamlets		Labour		No overall control	5	22				18^{[others 4]}		Details
Waltham Forest		Labour		Labour	16	44					59.22%	Details
Wandsworth		Conservative		Conservative	41	19						Details
Westminster		Conservative		Conservative	44	16					32.35%	Details
Totals					612	1,060	116	12	4	47

Others and notes

^ Harrow: Independent, 2;
^ Havering: Havering Residents Association, 19; Independent Residents, 5;
^ Merton: Merton Park Ward Independent Residents, 3;
^ Tower Hamlets: Tower Hamlets First, 18;

Overall councillors by party

Overall councillors by party
Party		Seats	Gain/loss
	Labour	1,060	+185
	Conservative	612	−105
	Liberal Democrats	116	−130
	Havering Residents Association	19	+7
	Tower Hamlets First	18	+18
	UKIP	12	+12
	Independent Residents	5	+1
	Green	4	+2
	Merton Park Residents	3	0
	Independent	2	+1

Three seats in Barnet (Colindale) and three in Tower Hamlets (Blackwall and Cubitt Town) were vacancies until elections held on 26 June 2014 in Colindale^[4] and on 3 July 2014 in Blackwall and Cubitt Town.^[5]

Opinion polling

Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Sample size	Lab	Con	Lib Dem	Grn	UKIP	Others	Lead
Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Sample size						Others	Lead
22 May 2014	2014 elections	2,515,073	37.6%	26.4%	10.6%	9.8%	9.5%	6.1%	11.2%
6–8 May 2014	YouGov	1,422	40%	33%	11%	2%	10%	4%	7%
28–29 April 2014	Survation	1,001	42%	26%	14%	4%	11%	3%	16%
6 May 2010	2010 elections	3,733,289	32.5%	31.7%	22.4%	6.6%	1.1%	5.7%	0.8%

Mayoral results

In four London boroughs the executive function of the council is a directly elected mayor. The mayoral elections take place at the same time as councillor elections in those boroughs.

Mayoralty
Hackney	Jules Pipe (Labour)	Jules Pipe (Labour)
Lewisham	Sir Steve Bullock (Labour)	Sir Steve Bullock (Labour)
Newham	Robin Wales (Labour)	Robin Wales (Labour)
Tower Hamlets	Lutfur Rahman (Independent)	Lutfur Rahman (Tower Hamlets First)