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The 2026 Westminster City Council election took place on 7 May 2026, as part of the 2026 United Kingdom local elections. All 54 members of Westminster City Council were elected. The election took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs.

Registered130,603
Turnout46,962
36.0%
Quick facts All 54 seats to Westminster City Council 28 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...
2026 Westminster City Council election
← 2022
7 May 2026 (2026-05-07)
2030 →
All 54 seats to Westminster City Council
28 seats needed for a majority
Registered130,603
Turnout46,962
36.0%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Paul Swaddle Adam Hug
Party Conservative Labour
Last election 23 seats, 38.6% 31 seats, 46.3%
Seats before 24[1] 28
Seats after 32 22
Seat change Increase 9 Decrease 9
Popular vote 47,619 40,986
Percentage 35.1% 30.2%
Swing Decrease 3.5pp Decrease 16.1pp
Map of the results of the 2026 Westminster council election. Conservatives in blue and Labour in red. Striped wards have mixed representation.
Leader before election

Adam Hug
Labour

 Leader after election

Paul Swaddle
Conservative

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Prior to the election, the council was under Labour majority control; they had won a majority at the previous election in 2022 which had been the first time since the modern council was created in 1965 that it had not been controlled by the Conservatives. At this election, the Conservatives retook control of the council, winning 32 of the 54 seats. The Conservative group leader, Paul Swaddle, was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2026.[2][3]

History

The thirty-two London boroughs were established in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. They are the principal authorities in Greater London and have responsibilities including education, housing, planning, highways, social services, libraries, recreation, waste, environmental health and revenue collection. Some of the powers are shared with the Greater London Authority, which also manages passenger transport, police and fire.[4]

Since formation, Westminster City Council was run by the Conservative Party until the 2022 election, which marked both the first ever Labour administration of Westminster and the first ever non-Conservative administration.

Changes since 2022

By elections in West End ward in September 2024 and Vincent Square ward in February 2025 both resulted in Conservative gains from Labour, reducing Labour's council group to 28 seats.[5][6]

Two Conservative councillors, Laila Cunningham in Lancaster Gate Ward and Alan Mendoza in Abbey Road ward, defected to Reform UK in June 2025 and November 2025 respectively.[7]

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After 2022 election Before 2026 election After 2026 election
Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats
Labour 31 Labour 28 Labour 22
Conservative 23 Conservative 24 Conservative 32
Reform 0 Reform 2 Reform 0
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Results summary

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2026 Westminster City Council election
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 32 9 0 Increase 9 59.3 35.1 47,619 Decrease 3.5
  Labour 22 0 9 Decrease 9 40.7 30.2 40,986 Decrease 16.1
  Green 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 17.7 24,105 Increase 15.6
  Reform 0 0 0 0.0 10.8 14,610 N/A
  Liberal Democrats 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 6.2 8,389 Decrease 6.5
  Independent 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 0.0 57 Decrease 0.3
  Workers Party 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 54 N/A
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Ward results

The following are the candidate-level results for the 7 May 2026 election.[8][9] Vote shares and the majority figures are calculated on ballot papers counted, and the change column compares each candidate to the same-rank candidate of their party in the 2022 election, which was held under the same ward boundaries. Candidates of parties that did not contest the ward in 2022, or that fielded fewer candidates than in 2026, are marked N/A. Sitting councillors seeking re-election in their existing ward are marked with an asterisk (*); councillors seeking re-election for a different ward are marked with a cross (†). Three sitting Conservative councillors had changed party affiliation between the 2022 and 2026 elections: Alan Mendoza (Abbey Road) and Laila Cunningham (Lancaster Gate, the latter not seeking re-election in 2026) defected to Reform UK,[10] while West End councillor Paul Fisher, who had been elected for Labour in 2022, defected to the Conservatives before the election.[11]

Abbey Road

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Abbey Road (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Hannah Galley * 1,297 44.2 −6.4
Conservative Festus Akinbusoye 1,284 43.8 −5.1
Conservative Caroline Sargent * 1,282 43.7 −4.9
Reform Alan Mendoza * 567 19.3 N/A
Labour Ruth Sullivan 510 17.4 −15.3
Labour Asmahan Alnidawi 494 16.8 −14.6
Reform Damien Moore 462 15.8 N/A
Labour Belin Munshi 456 15.6 −13.0
Reform Anika Sweetland 413 14.1 N/A
Green Themistoklis Pagoudis 411 14.0 +1.3
Green Esme Webb 358 12.2 N/A
Green Joseph Elliott 351 12.0 N/A
Liberal Democrats Peter Dixon 266 9.1 −5.9
Liberal Democrats Peter Toeman 220 7.5 −1.9
Liberal Democrats Hussain Murad 184 6.3 −2.0
Majority 715 24.4 +8.5
Turnout 2,932 38.1 +6.5
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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Bayswater

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Bayswater (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christabel Flight 1,016 38.2 +4.4
Labour Maggie Carman * 1,009 37.9 −22.2
Conservative Mark Tozer 942 35.4 +2.9
Conservative Emily Sheffield 921 34.6 +5.2
Labour Max Sullivan * 870 32.7 −22.3
Labour Tim Nolan 859 32.3 −22.5
Green Chris Darby 373 14.0 N/A
Green Jessie Khera 360 13.5 N/A
Green Mikias Desta 348 13.1 N/A
Reform John Bornholt 238 8.9 N/A
Reform Patrick Dougherty 215 8.1 N/A
Reform Sukumar Srinivasan 184 6.9 N/A
Liberal Democrats George Coelho 179 6.7 −3.6
Liberal Democrats Alasdair Murray 139 5.2 −4.7
Liberal Democrats Stephen Gomersall 136 5.1 −3.0
Majority 21 0.8 −20.2
Turnout 2,662 35.7 +1.9
Conservative gain from Labour
Labour hold
Conservative gain from Labour
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Church Street

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Church Street (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Aicha Less * 891 41.7 −28.9
Labour Fiona Parker 842 39.4 −28.3
Labour Abdul Toki * 829 38.8 −27.3
Green Yassin Mahi Eldein 614 28.7 N/A
Green Zubin Cramsie 595 27.8 N/A
Green Nelson Nash 529 24.7 N/A
Conservative Ahmed Imtiaz 274 12.8 −6.0
Conservative Natalia Awasty 273 12.8 −4.4
Conservative Magdalena Krzyzanowska 245 11.5 −5.2
Reform Margot Finley 232 10.9 N/A
Reform Calum Miller 224 10.5 N/A
Reform David Morrall 218 10.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Kirsty Allan 142 6.6 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Sarah Ryan 100 4.7 −3.0
Majority 215 10.1 −37.2
Turnout 2,138 29.8 +3.9
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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Harrow Road

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Harrow Road (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Concia Albert * 1,038 40.8 −31.9
Labour Regan Hook * 944 37.1 −34.1
Labour Rhys Thomas 909 35.7 −33.2
Green Charlie Button 893 35.1 N/A
Green Ilemi Arrindell 884 34.7 N/A
Green Faaiz Hasan 862 33.9 N/A
Conservative Alexander Hawthorn 310 12.2 −6.0
Conservative Samuel Parr 272 10.7 −6.6
Conservative Iheoma Oteh 267 10.5 −5.2
Reform Lars Agren 223 8.8 N/A
Reform Alex Hayter 212 8.3 N/A
Reform Lazar Petrovic 200 7.9 N/A
Liberal Democrats David Ewen 129 5.1 −5.4
Liberal Democrats Diane Yeo 125 4.9 −3.6
Workers Party Momosi Umolu 54 2.1 N/A
Majority 16 0.6 −50.1
Turnout 2,544 33.9 +6.2
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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Hyde Park

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Hyde Park (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Elliot Keck 856 40.7 −1.4
Conservative Greg Ero 816 38.8 −0.6
Labour Md Shamsed Chowdhury * 800 38.0 −6.7
Conservative Arran Wedderburn 760 36.1 −0.5
Labour Judith Southern * 719 34.2 −9.2
Labour Nigel Medforth 654 31.1 −11.9
Green Niki Moosavi 313 14.9 N/A
Green Jenny Turton 253 12.0 N/A
Green Koye Candide-Johnson 246 11.7 N/A
Reform Robert Midgley 138 6.6 N/A
Reform Stewart Robbins 133 6.3 N/A
Reform Plamen Popgenski 124 5.9 N/A
Liberal Democrats Jean Cenejuste 108 5.1 −8.7
Liberal Democrats William Dunbar 100 4.8 −8.5
Majority 40 1.9 +1.0
Turnout 2,104 36.5 +7.0
Conservative gain from Labour
Conservative gain from Labour
Labour hold
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Knightsbridge and Belgravia

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Knightsbridge and Belgravia (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony Devenish * 1,097 50.5 −12.2
Conservative Elizabeth Hitchcock * 1,091 50.2 −11.6
Conservative Rachael Robathan * 1,091 50.2 −11.5
Reform Cass Cass-Horne 355 16.3 N/A
Reform Henry Platt 352 16.2 N/A
Reform Anthony Goodwin 333 15.3 N/A
Labour Jo Broadey 325 15.0 −9.1
Labour Matt Noble † 299 13.8 −8.0
Green Paul Pettinger 286 13.2 N/A
Labour Max Murashov 261 12.0 −9.4
Green Brigitte Stepputtis 257 11.8 N/A
Green Rowan Bazley 252 11.6 N/A
Liberal Democrats Robert Beattie 163 7.5 −9.8
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Kerle 157 7.2 −6.7
Majority 736 33.9 −3.7
Turnout 2,173 33.3 +4.1
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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Lancaster Gate

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Lancaster Gate (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ellie Ormsby * 989 38.9 −3.1
Labour Connor Jones 936 36.9 −4.9
Conservative Philip Stephenson-Oliver 862 33.9 −10.2
Labour Jenneba Sie-Jalloh 844 33.2 −7.8
Conservative Jonathan Goff 843 33.2 −8.6
Conservative Blessings Kaseke 825 32.5 −6.4
Green JD Kelleher 381 15.0 +3.0
Green Matthew Bishop 367 14.4 N/A
Green Sandra Goncalves 326 12.8 N/A
Reform Sir David Roche 271 10.7 N/A
Reform Ayesha Ghulati 239 9.4 N/A
Reform Rudy Vandaele-Kennedy 229 9.0 N/A
Liberal Democrats Richard Pyatt 141 5.6 −7.1
Liberal Democrats Richard Wood 141 5.6 −1.6
Majority 18 0.7 +0.7
Turnout 2,540 37.6 +1.8
Labour hold
Labour hold
Conservative hold
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Little Venice

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Little Venice (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Melvyn Caplan * 1,215 43.9 −2.3
Conservative Lorraine Dean * 1,170 42.2 −3.8
Conservative Louise Shaw 1,071 38.7 −5.4
Labour Sara Hassan * 935 33.8 −11.0
Labour Shad Hoshyar 844 30.5 −12.9
Labour Megan Schellinger 838 30.3 −12.4
Green Aliza Mallal 368 13.3 N/A
Green Phil Dobson 366 13.2 N/A
Green Ted Loveday 355 12.8 N/A
Reform Jane Britton 187 6.8 N/A
Reform Dean Johnson 174 6.3 N/A
Reform Rachel Ward 171 6.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Edward Braune 127 4.6 −4.8
Liberal Democrats Bahram Alimoradian 120 4.3 −3.6
Liberal Democrats Marianne Magnin 120 4.3 −2.2
Majority 136 4.9 +4.2
Turnout 2,770 41.7 +4.1
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Labour
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Maida Vale

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Maida Vale (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Geoff Barraclough * 1,008 40.5 −22.0
Labour Nafsika Butler-Thalassis * 957 38.5 −21.7
Labour Iman Less * 885 35.6 −19.9
Conservative Anthony Garnham 578 23.2 −9.6
Conservative Jake Glasmacher 577 23.2 −5.1
Conservative Daniel Kawczynski 514 20.7 −6.4
Green Rachel Allen 514 20.7 N/A
Green Anissa Boussekhane 491 19.7 N/A
Green Eoghan Butler 424 17.0 N/A
Reform Mark Allcock 316 12.7 N/A
Reform Maria Ensabella 285 11.5 N/A
Reform Lois Miller 272 10.9 N/A
Liberal Democrats Olivia Griscelli 184 7.4 −2.3
Liberal Democrats Ian Newton 154 6.2 −0.4
Liberal Democrats Max Pearson 88 3.5 −2.0
Majority 307 12.3 −10.4
Turnout 2,487 32.9 −1.1
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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Marylebone

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Marylebone (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ian Rowley * 1,188 42.8 −2.8
Conservative Karen Scarborough * 1,173 42.3 −2.1
Conservative Barbara Arzymanow * 1,171 42.2 −1.8
Liberal Democrats Alistair Barr 722 26.0 −7.3
Liberal Democrats Martin Kersh 627 22.6 −7.6
Liberal Democrats Helen Toeman 616 22.2 −2.6
Labour Lara Chammas 381 13.7 −8.7
Labour Abdulla Al-Hashimi 351 12.6 −9.7
Green Chris Hill 305 11.0 N/A
Labour Mustafa Ghafouri 303 10.9 −10.1
Reform Alex Archer 303 10.9 N/A
Reform Linda Crawford 300 10.8 N/A
Reform Simon Gallier 266 9.6 N/A
Green James Richardson 227 8.2 N/A
Green Adam Workman 194 7.0 N/A
Majority 449 16.2 +5.5
Turnout 2,775 35.5 +3.4
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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Pimlico North

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Pimlico North (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jim Glen * 1,357 45.7 −4.2
Conservative Ed Pitt Ford * 1,350 45.5 −2.9
Conservative Mohamed Elmi 1,193 40.2 −5.9
Labour Emma Garside 713 24.0 −13.4
Labour Shamsa Hersi 622 21.0 −16.3
Labour Mohamed Radwan 553 18.6 −13.6
Green Bella Arraiol 459 15.5 N/A
Green Joao Arraiol 394 13.3 N/A
Reform Mike Hollingsworth 359 12.1 N/A
Green Bertie King 351 11.8 N/A
Reform Amanda Wilkinson 349 11.8 N/A
Reform David Roach 343 11.6 N/A
Liberal Democrats Anthony Coleman 270 9.1 −8.3
Liberal Democrats Guy Palmer 174 5.9 −8.0
Liberal Democrats Omar Hegazi 173 5.8 N/A
Majority 480 16.2 +7.5
Turnout 2,968 38.8 +3.9
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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Pimlico South

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Pimlico South (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Liza Begum * 1,273 39.6 −9.9
Labour Robert Eagleton * 1,169 36.4 −10.2
Labour Jason Williams * 1,075 33.5 −10.6
Conservative Roberto Salvia 1,033 32.2 −9.3
Conservative James Spencer 1,030 32.1 −9.3
Conservative Murad Gassanly 1,025 31.9 −9.0
Green Matthew Devers 459 14.3 N/A
Reform Henry Hunt 396 12.3 N/A
Green Benedict Fletcher 371 11.6 N/A
Reform Nick Lockett 371 11.6 N/A
Reform Claudia Mallon 363 11.3 N/A
Green Eva Sheffield 346 10.8 N/A
Liberal Democrats Theodore Roos 145 4.5 −3.7
Liberal Democrats Yaghi Raked 120 3.7 −3.4
Majority 42 1.3 −1.3
Turnout 3,211 45.2 +4.0
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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Queen's Park

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Queen's Park (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patricia McAllister * 1,218 43.0 −33.6
Labour Cara Sanquest * 1,074 37.9 −33.1
Labour Hamza Taouzzale * 1,034 36.5 −32.5
Green Clarissa Astor 892 31.5 N/A
Green Tom Oakley 772 27.2 N/A
Green Rajiv Sinha 716 25.3 N/A
Conservative Antony Demetriou 319 11.3 −5.9
Reform Felix Gilroy 317 11.2 N/A
Conservative Richard Pinchen 303 10.7 −4.4
Reform Avril O'Connor 296 10.4 N/A
Reform Graeme Kalbraier 274 9.7 N/A
Conservative Annabel Singh 243 8.6 −5.7
Liberal Democrats Oliver Harrison 206 7.3 −1.3
Liberal Democrats Gillian Scallan 147 5.2 −1.3
Liberal Democrats Esther McGee 135 4.8 −0.3
Majority 142 5.0 −46.8
Turnout 2,834 33.4 +6.8
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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Regent's Park

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Regent's Park (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Rigby * 1,322 49.8 −1.5
Conservative Paul Swaddle * 1,256 47.3 −2.1
Conservative Ralu Oteh-Osoka * 1,208 45.5 −2.2
Labour Zaynab Ali 500 18.8 −12.5
Labour Connor Whittam 499 18.8 −12.0
Labour Safia Yousef 461 17.4 −12.0
Green Vivien Lichtenstein 420 15.8 +1.6
Green William Watson 364 13.7 N/A
Green Wilf Parsons 361 13.6 N/A
Reform Alexander Smith 301 11.3 N/A
Reform Adam Amer 300 11.3 N/A
Reform Roger Gewolb 286 10.8 N/A
Liberal Democrats Dominic Aubrey-Jones 223 8.4 −5.5
Liberal Democrats Adam Bennett 147 5.5 −3.7
Majority 708 26.7 +10.3
Turnout 2,654 35.4 +5.7
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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St James's

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St James's (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Mitchell * 1,035 44.9 −3.1
Conservative Mark Shearer * 997 43.3 −4.0
Conservative San Abishev 974 42.3 −4.4
Labour Samira Richardson 495 21.5 −17.2
Labour Hannah Turnbull 484 21.0 −13.3
Labour Ammar Yusuf 406 17.6 −16.7
Green Maria Dowell 387 16.8 N/A
Green Sam Graham 354 15.4 N/A
Green Mike Walker 324 14.1 N/A
Reform Samuel Harwood 285 12.4 N/A
Reform Roger Walters 266 11.6 N/A
Reform Elke Sweetland 248 10.8 N/A
Liberal Democrats Moreland Agnew 177 7.7 −6.8
Liberal Democrats Nigel Stokes 144 6.3 −7.5
Liberal Democrats Isabelle Pucher 134 5.8 −8.0
Majority 479 20.8 +12.8
Turnout 2,303 33.8 +4.2
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
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Vincent Square

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Vincent Square (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Harvey * 1,405 47.1 +0.8
Conservative Selina Short * 1,377 46.2 +2.4
Conservative Ben Sewell 1,326 44.5 +0.9
Labour Patrick Brown 759 25.5 −19.0
Labour Joanna Camadoo-Rothwell 747 25.1 −16.3
Labour Shakira Noel 670 22.5 −16.3
Green Louis Mylne 386 12.9 N/A
Green Daniel O'Shaughnessy 366 12.3 N/A
Green Amel Serour 345 11.6 N/A
Reform Andrew Little 265 8.9 N/A
Reform Evan McNamara 244 8.2 N/A
Reform Arnaud Corbin 241 8.1 N/A
Liberal Democrats Paul Diggory 173 5.8 −6.7
Liberal Democrats Olivia Brink 166 5.6 −3.5
Liberal Democrats Phillip Kerle 158 5.3 −3.7
Independent Chi Usanga 57 1.9 N/A
Majority 567 19.0 +18.8
Turnout 2,981 40.2 +1.0
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Labour
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West End

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West End (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Barnes * 954 40.3 −0.6
Conservative Elizabeth Amos 916 38.6 −0.7
Conservative Paul Fisher * 857 36.2 −2.7
Labour Patrick Lilley * 722 30.5 −18.8
Labour Sarah Littleton 681 28.7 −18.6
Labour Tim Lord 681 28.7 −18.6
Green Craig Chatfield 365 15.4 N/A
Green Treasa Ni Mhorain 356 15.0 N/A
Green Grace Pearce 354 14.9 N/A
Reform Belinda Hands 245 10.3 N/A
Reform James Bembridge 241 10.2 N/A
Reform Sinead Roth 227 9.6 N/A
Liberal Democrats Sally Gray 166 7.0 −4.2
Liberal Democrats Nigel Heilpern 103 4.3 −4.5
Majority 135 5.7 −0.7
Turnout 2,370 33.3 +1.8
Conservative gain from Labour
Conservative gain from Labour
Conservative gain from Labour
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Westbourne

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Westbourne (3)[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Adam Hug * 1,072 42.6 −28.1
Labour David Boothroyd * 1,066 42.4 −24.3
Labour Angela Piddock * 1,032 41.0 −25.0
Green Eda Karakas 854 33.9 N/A
Green Joel Mordi 803 31.9 N/A
Green Nilton Rodrigues 803 31.9 N/A
Conservative Sabrina Boni 309 12.3 −6.6
Conservative George Eldredge 277 11.0 −6.6
Conservative Alex Duguid 272 10.8 −5.8
Reform Neil Harrison 204 8.1 N/A
Reform Niall Moran 179 7.1 N/A
Reform Amar Johal 174 6.9 N/A
Liberal Democrats Theresa Booth 143 5.7 −2.5
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth McQuay 97 3.9 −2.6
Majority 178 7.1 −40.0
Turnout 2,516 33.1 +8.8
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
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