Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, 2014
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council took place on 22 May 2014, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections, the election of the directly-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, and the European Parliament elections. Voting in Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.
As of 2013 the composition of the Borough Council was 27 Labour councillors, fourteen independent councillors, seven Conservative councillors, 2 Respect councillors, and a single Liberal Democrat councillor.[1]
Reduction in council size
The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 reduced the size of the Council and created new electoral wards.[2]
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England began the process of changing the size of Tower Hamlets Council in 2012.[3] The new wards for the elections in 2014 are as follows.
Ward | Number of councillors |
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Bethnal Green | 3 |
Blackwall and Cubitt Town | 3 |
Bow East | 3 |
Bow West | 2 |
Bromley North | 2 |
Bromley South | 2 |
Canary Wharf | 2 |
Island Gardens | 2 |
Lansbury | 3 |
Limehouse | 1 |
Mile End | 3 |
Poplar | 1 |
Shadwell | 2 |
Spitalfields and Banglatown | 2 |
St Dunstan's | 2 |
St Katharine's and Wapping | 2 |
St Peter's | 3 |
Stepney Green | 2 |
Weavers | 2 |
Whitechapel | 3 |
Results
Mayor
Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election 22 May 2014 (result since declared void by an election court) [4] | |||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Round | % | 2nd Round | Total | First Round Votes Transfer Votes | |
Tower Hamlets First | Lutfur Rahman | 36,539 | 43.38% | 856 | 37,395 |
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Labour | John Biggs | 27,643 | 32.82% | 6,500 | 34,143 |
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Conservative | Christopher Wilford | 7,173 | 8.52% |
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UKIP | Nicholas McQueen | 4,819 | 5.72% |
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Green | Chris Smith | 4,699 | 5.72% |
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Liberal Democrat | Reetendra Banerji | 1,959 | 2.33% |
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TUSC | Hugo Pierre | 871 | 1.03% |
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Independent | Reza Choudhury | 205 | 0.24% |
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Independent | Mohammed Khan | 164 | 0.19% |
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Independent | Hafiz Kadir | 162 | 0.19% |
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Rejected ballots | 2,306 | ||||||
Turnout | 86,540 | 47.58 | |||||
Registered electors | 181,871 | ||||||
Void election result | Swing | ||||||
Council
Party | Seats won | Percentage of votes |
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Labour Party | 22 | 38.92 |
Tower Hamlets First | 18 | 35.40 |
Conservative Party | 5 | 11.29 |
Others | 0 | 14.39 |
postponed election | 3 | - |
Total | 45 | 100 |
Source: Tower Hamlets Council |
References
- ↑ Council and Democracy London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- ↑ Order Legislation.gov
- ↑ Tower Hamlets FER LGBCE
- ↑ "Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets Council. Retrieved 24 May 2014.