2006 London local elections

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All 1,861 on all 32 London boroughs
Turnout	38.9% (7.1%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bob Neill Ken Livingstone Graham Tope Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Popular vote 746,177 596,570 443,772 Percentage 34.9% 27.9% 20.7% Swing 0.8% 6.2% 0.1% Councils 14 7 3 Councils +/– 6 8 Councillors 785 684 316 Councillors +/– 131 182 9
Results by Borough in 2006.

Local governmentelections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 2006. Polling stations were open between 7am and 10pm.

AllLondon borough council seats were up for election.Mayoral contests were held in the London Boroughs ofHackney,Lewisham, andNewham.

TheLondon Conservatives slightly increased their vote share, made 131 council seat gains and won control of 6 new councils, whileLondon Labour saw its vote share decline by 6% and lost 8 councils and 182 seats. The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (27.9%), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since1968. Conversely, the Conservatives won the most seats, the most councils and the most votes in London for the first time since1982.

The Labour decline was also accompanied by a rise in the number of minor party councillors, mostly concentrated in specific local authorities.Respect won 15 council seats, theBritish National Party won 14 and theLondon Green Party won 12. TheChristian Peoples Alliance and theSocialist Party also won two seats each. In total, the election saw 76 minor party or independent councillors elected in London, a figure which remains the highest on record.

Altogether, minor parties and independents won 17% of the vote, the highest ever vote share for 'other' parties until the local elections of2014.

• Turnout: 2,284,882 voters cast ballots, a turnout of 38.9% (+7.1%).^[3]

The largest party in terms of councils and councillors became theConservative Party after this election, with losses by theLabour Party and a small increase in share of the vote to theLiberal Democrats. Smaller national parties made significant gains, with theBritish National Party andRespect having the second-largest number of councillors in theLondon Borough of Barking and Dagenham andTower Hamlets (respectively). TheGreen Party also saw its gains concentrated on one area to achieve the third most councillors in theLondon Borough of Lewisham. Scattered across boroughs, unaffiliated residents groups won 24 council seats.^[4]

In three 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.

The map below shows the results for each ward across the whole of Greater London.

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  Barking and Dagenham 2006 results map
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  Barnet 2006 results map
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  Bexley 2006 results map
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  Brent 2006 results map
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  Bromley 2006 results map
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  Camden 2006 results map
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  Croydon 2006 results map
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  Ealing 2006 results map
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  Enfield 2006 results map
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  Greenwich 2006 results map
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  Hackney 2006 results map
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  Hammersmith and Fulham 2006 results map
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  Haringey 2006 results map
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  Harrow 2006 results map
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  Havering 2006 results map
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  Hillingdon 2006 results map
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  Hounslow 2006 results map
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  Islington 2006 results map
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  Kensington and Chelsea 2006 results map
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  Kingston upon Thames 2006 results map
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  Lambeth 2006 results map
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  Lewisham 2006 results map
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  Merton 2006 results map
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  Newham 2006 results map
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  Redbridge 2006 results map
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  Richmond upon Thames 2006 results map
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  Southwark 2006 results map
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  Sutton 2006 results map
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  Tower Hamlets 2006 results map
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  Waltham Forest 2006 results map
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  Wandsworth 2006 results map
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  Westminster 2006 results map

• "English elections list".electoralcommission.org.uk. 2006. Archived fromthe original on 23 March 2008. Retrieved8 September 2019.
• Wintour, Patrick; Muir, Hugh (17 February 2006)."Party leaders put to the test with a capital campaign".The Guardian. Retrieved8 September 2019.

• 2006 London Borough council elections
• May 2006 in the United Kingdom
• London Borough council elections by year

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