2022 Brent Council election

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First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Last election 60 seats, 57.6% 3 seats, 22.5% 0 seats, 12.6% Seats won 49 5 3 Seat change 11 2 3
Results of the 2022 Brent London Borough council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow.
council control before election Labour Subsequent council control Labour

The2022 Brent London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 57 members ofBrent London Borough Council were to be elected. The elections took place alongsidelocal elections in the other London boroughs andelections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

In theprevious election in 2018, theLabour Party maintained its control of the council, winning 60 out of the 63 seats with theConservative Party forming the council opposition with the remaining three seats. The 2022 election took place under new election boundaries, which reduced the number of councillors to 57.

The thirty-twoLondon boroughs were established in 1965 by theLondon 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 theGreater London Authority, which also manages passenger transport, police and fire.^[1]

Since its formation, Brent has been variously underLabour control,no overall control andConservative control. Only Labour, Conservative andLiberal Democrat councillors have been elected to the council. The council has had an overall Labour majority since the2010 election, in which Labour won 40 seats, the Liberal Democrats won 17 and the Conservatives won six. The Liberal Democrats lost all but one of their seats in the2014 election before losing their final seat in the most recent election in2018. The 2018 result saw Labour win 60 seats with 57.6% of the overall vote, and the Conservatives win three with 22.5% of the overall vote. The Liberal Democrats received 12.6% of votes across the borough and theGreen Party received 5.6% of the vote, but neither won any seats. The incumbent leader of the council is Muhammed Butt, who has held that position since 2014.

Michael Pavey, a Labour councillor for Barnhill ward, resigned in November 2019, citing family reasons.^[2] In May 2016, while serving as deputy leader of the council, he had unsuccessfully challenged Butt for the leadership of the council.^[2] Later in 2016 he resigned from the council's cabinet because he disagreed with Butt about how to implement cuts.^[3] Another Labour councillor for the same ward, Sarah Marquis, resigned days later, citing family and personal reasons.^[4] A Labour councillor for Wembley Central ward, Luke Patterson, resigned in the same month citing personal reasons.^[5][6] By-elections to replace all three, in addition to James Allie, a Labour councillor for Alperton who resigned, were held on 23 January 2020.^[7] Allie was reportedly suspended from the party.^[7] The Labour candidate to replace Allie, Chetan Harpale, was suspended from his party during the campaign to investigate alleged Islamophobia.^[7] Harpale lost the election, with the Liberal Democrat candidate Anton Georgiou being elected.^[8] The other three by-elections were all held by Labour on reduced majorities.^[8][9]

In 2021, a Labour councillor for Brondesbury Park, Kieron Gill, resigned, declining to explain his reasons.^[10] Earlier in 2021 he had been the only Labour councillor to abstain on the council budget.^[11] The by-election was held on 6 May 2021, on the same date as the2021 London mayoral andLondon Assembly elections.^[11] The Labour candidate, Gwen Grahl, was elected.^[12] Earlier that week, the Labour candidate Abdirazak Abdi resigned from the Labour group to sit as an independent councillor.^[10]

Along with most other London boroughs, Brent was subject to a boundary review ahead of the 2022 election. TheLocal Government Boundary Commission for England concluded that the council should have 57 seats, a reduction of six, and produced new election boundaries following a period of consultation.^[13] The new boundaries comprise thirteen three-councillor wards and nine two-councillor wards.^[13]

Brent, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. The election took place by multi-memberfirst-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors. Electors had as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three being elected.

Allregistered electors (British,Irish,Commonwealth andEuropean Union citizens) living in London aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who lived at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities.^[14] Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.^[14]

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  Council composition ahead of the 2022 election

2022 Brent London Borough Council election

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	49	0	5	10	86.0	57.9	103,176	+0.3
	Conservative	5	2	0	2	8.8	24.3	43,390	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	3	2	0	2	5.3	13.6	24,213	+1.0
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	3.7	6,591	-1.9
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.5	925	±0.0

Statements of persons nominated were published on 6 April.^[15] Sitting councillors are marked with an asterisk (*) although as ward boundaries have changed significantly, they cannot strictly be called "incumbent" as existing council wards would cease to exist upon the election of the new Council.

The by-election was triggered following the resignation of Cllr Anton Georgiou.^[16]

Queen's Park by-election: 4 July 2024

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lesley Smith	3,038	43.6	–9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Virginia Bonham Carter	1,462	21.0	+4.5
	Green	Ricardo Davies	1,329	19.1	+0.5
	Conservative	Emily Sheffield	1,138	16.3	+4.8
Majority			1,576	22.6	N/A
Turnout			7,035	54.4	+23.0
Registered electors			12,929
	Labourhold		Swing	7.2

The by-election was triggered following the resignation of Cllr Eleanor Southwood.^[17]

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