Following the sad death of Labour councillor Nirmal Gill in February this year, the Party easily held its seat at the Longbridge ward by-election in Barking and Dagenham last week (Thursday 9 May). Winning candidate, Syed Ahammad, garnered a respectable 1,555 votes for first place, a result which would have seen him win a seat…

The Conservative Party at Westminster City Council celebrated a comfortable win in the Marylebone High Street ward by-election yesterday (Thursday 2 May). 34-year-old local dentist Iain Bott secured the victory with 921 votes, a 718-vote majority over his second-placed rival, Labour candidate Nik Slingsby, although the overall result still marked a 3% swing to Labour….

Labour retained the council seat in a by-election that took place in Lewisham last week (Thursday 28 March), despite a significant swing to the local party, Lewisham People Before Profit. Whilst Labour’s Olufunke Abidoye held on to the council seat in the Evelyn ward for the Party, there was a significant swing of 5.4% from Labour…

A number of elections took place around London yesterday with an interesting result in the Gooshays ward in Havering as the former 2012 mayoral candidate Lawrence Webb became the first UKIP councillor in Greater London with a total of 39% of the vote. Elsewhere in London, Labour have increased their majority at Islington Council –…

As expected, the Labour Party candidate successfully retained the council seat in yesterday’s Gospel Oak by-election in the London Borough of Camden. Labour’s Maeve McCormack ensured that her party continues to lead Camden Council – the composition remains with 30 Labour councillors, 13 Liberal Democrats, 10 Conservative and a solitary Green Party representative. McCormack secured a…