Watford Borough Council elections

Watford Borough Council elections are held three years out of every four, to elect members of Watford Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England. A third of the council is elected each time. Since the last boundary changes in 2016 the council has comprised 36 councillors representing 12 wards, each of which elects three councillors. In addition to the 36 councillors Watford also has a directly-elected mayor. Elections to Hertfordshire County Council are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections.^[1]

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Year	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Green^[b]	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year						Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (36 seats)
1973	21	9	6	–	0		Labour
New ward boundaries (36 seats)^[3]
1976	19	17	0	0	0		Labour
1978	19	17	0	0	0		Labour
1979	19	17	0	0	0		Labour
1980	22	14	0	0	0		Labour
1982	23	13	0	0	0		Labour
1983	23	13	0	0	0		Labour
1984	23	13	0	0	0		Labour
1986	23	12	0	0	1		Labour
1987	23	10	3	0	0		Labour
1988	16	11	3	0	6		No overall control
1990	20	11	3	0	2		Labour
1991	22	10	3	0	1		Labour
1992	22	10	4	0	0		Labour
1994	20	9	7	0	0		Labour
1995	21	8	7	0	0		Labour
1996	21	6	9	0	0		Labour
1998	21	7	8	0	0		Labour
New ward boundaries (36 seats)^[4]^[5]
1999	19	7	10	0	0		Labour
2000	18	8	10	0	0		No overall control
2002	15	7	13	0	1		No overall control
2003	8	7	20	1	0		Liberal Democrats
2004	4	4	26	2	0		Liberal Democrats
2006	1	3	29	3	0		Liberal Democrats
2007	2	3	28	3	0		Liberal Democrats
2008	3	3	27	3	0		Liberal Democrats
2010	4	4	25	3	0		Liberal Democrats
2011	6	2	24	3	1		Liberal Democrats
2012	8	2	23	3	0		Liberal Democrats
2014	11	1	23	1	0		Liberal Democrats
2015	13	5	18	0	0		No overall control
New ward boundaries (36 seats)^[1]
2016	11	0	25	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2018	10	0	26	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2019	10	0	26	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2021	10	0	26	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2022	9	0	27	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2023	9	0	27	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2024	6	0	30	0	0		Liberal Democrats
2026	4	0	32	0	0		Liberal Democrats

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	3,768	48.2	−14.1
	Conservative	2,473	31.7	+9.8
	Liberal Democrats	1,570	20.1	+4.3
Majority		1,295	16.5
Turnout		7,811
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	3,695	50.0	+1.7
	Liberal Democrats	1,963	26.6	+4.9
	Labour	1,727	23.4	−6.7
Majority		1,732	23.4
Turnout		7,385
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,447	51.1	+7.3
	Liberal Democrats	906	32.0	+2.1
	Conservative	477	16.9	−1.9
Majority		541	19.1
Turnout		2,830
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,260	42.5	+1.3
	Conservative	1,011	34.1	−7.6
	Liberal Democrats	467	15.8	−1.3
	Independent	116	3.9	+3.9
	Green	112	3.8	+3.8
Majority		249	8.4
Turnout		2,966
	Labour hold	Swing

Watford Borough Council elections

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Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,691	56.9	+0.9
	Conservative	674	22.7	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	607	20.4	−2.2
Majority		1,017	34.2
Turnout		2,972
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Shirena Counter	1,024	72.4	+5.0
	Conservative	Alan Luto	245	17.3	−1.5
	Labour	Ngagbogu Akubue	105	7.4	−3.2
	Green	Faye Cullen	40	2.8	−0.4
Majority			779	55.1
Turnout			1,414	28.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Watkin	887	45.4	+17.4
	Conservative	Angela Basit	828	42.4	−12.0
	Green	Sally Ivins	145	7.4	+1.3
	Labour	Mohammed Riaz	92	4.7	−6.9
Majority			59	3.0
Turnout			1,952	36.6
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Darren Walford	932	50.0	+3.1
	Conservative	Richard Southern	486	26.1	−12.4
	Labour	Mark Xerri	273	14.6	+4.0
	Green	Helen Wynne	91	4.9	+0.9
	BNP	Guy Dickens	83	4.5	+4.5
Majority			446	23.9
Turnout			1,865	40.83
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stephen Johnson	534	27.1
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Adcock	489	24.8
	Green	Maria Green	463	23.5
	Labour	Ahsan Khan	438	22.2
Majority			45	2.3
Turnout			1969	36.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Lynch	696	44.1	+7.3
	Labour	Fred Grindrod	622	39.4	+4.8
	Conservative	Youseffe Fahmy	158	10.0	−12.2
	Green	Dorothy Nixon	79	5.0	−1.4
	UKIP	Dan Channing	24	1.5	+1.5
Majority			74	4.7
Turnout			1,579
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jeanette Aron	1,021	48.5	+2.9
	Conservative	Penny Edwards	818	38.8	+2.5
	Labour	Omar Ismail	134	6.4	−5.3
	Green	Sally Ivins	133	6.3	−0.1
Majority			203	9.6
Turnout			2,106
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maureen Joan Mills	917	52.9	+2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Granville Gough	403	23.2	−4.3
	Independent	Mohammad Azam	190	11.0	+11.0
	Independent	Paul Baker	129	7.4	−0.7
	Conservative	David Charles Ealey	95	5.5	−3.7
Majority			514	29.6
Turnout			1,734
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lizz Ayre	716	45.9	−1.7
	Labour	Avril Haley	550	35.3	+4.3
	Conservative	Binita Mehta	151	9.7	−1.1
	Green	Su Murray	83	5.3	−0.9
	UKIP	Renie Price	59	3.8	−0.6
Majority			166	10.6
Turnout			1,559
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Glen Saffery	487	37.2	−7.4
	Conservative	Tony Rogers	292	22.3	−8.8
	UKIP	Philip Cox	277	21.1	+21.1
	Labour	Omar Ashraf	212	16.2	−0.7
	Green	Alison Wiesner	42	3.2	−4.1
Majority			195	14.9
Turnout			1,310
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Oxhey By-Election 4 May 2017^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Maggie Parker	1,239	64.7	+6.7
	Conservative	Richard Bell	395	20.6	+6.9
	Labour	Sue Sleeman	281	14.7	−0.3
Majority			844	44.1
Turnout			1,915
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Park By-Election 4 May 2017^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Jeffree	1,430	54.7	+10.1
	Conservative	David Fallon	915	35.0	+1.6
	Labour	Junior Sesay	267	10.2	−1.2
Majority			515	19.7
Turnout			2,612
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Oxhey By-Election 21 June 2018^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Imran Hamid	828	55.3	−3.5
	Conservative	Joseph Gornicki	420	28.1	+4.7
	Labour	Sue Sleeman	248	16.6	−1.1
Majority			408	27.3
Turnout			1,496
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Tudor By-Election 10 October 2019^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Stanton	871	55.4	−5.6
	Conservative	Carly Bishop	490	31.2	+13.2
	Labour	Seamus Williams	210	13.4	−7.5
Majority			381	24.3
Turnout			1,571
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Smith	934	44.1	−0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Lynch	762	36.0	+19.2
	Conservative	Camilla Khawaja	318	15.0	−4.5
	Green	Su Murray	104	4.9	−9.7
Majority			172	8.1
Turnout			2,118
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Asma Suleman	573	33.0	−27.1
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Robertson	532	30.6	+12.4
	Reform	David Ealey	294	16.9	N/A
	Conservative	Sanjaya Pant	180	10.3	−6.7
	Green	Jake Mitchell	126	7.2	N/A
	TUSC	Mark O'Connor	23	1.3	−3.4
Majority			41
Turnout				23.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Sharpe	1,061	60.7
	Reform	Michael Barrett	302	17.2
	Conservative	Peter Williams	136	7.7
	Labour	Sonu Masania	132	7.5
	Green	David Gordon	99	5.6
	TUSC	James O'Connor	10	0.5
Majority			759
Turnout				30.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Robertson	821	51.6	+4.3
	Reform	Mark Dixon	433	27.2	+17.8
	Conservative	Danny Mosley	148	9.3	−10.5
	Labour	Seamus Williams	111	7.0	−16.4
	Green	Dave Dunckley	77	4.8	New
Majority			388
Turnout			1590	30.49%
Registered electors
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing