2014 Lambeth London Borough Council election

The 2014 Lambeth Council election was held on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Lambeth Council in Greater London, England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. The election saw the Labour Party further increase its majority on the council, winning all but four of the 63 council seats.

2014 Lambeth Council election

22 May 2014
All 63 council seats to Lambeth Council
Leader Lib Peck Timothy Briggs Party Labour Conservative Leader since 29 November 2012 2014 Leader's seat Thornton Clapham Common Last election 44 seats, 41.8% 4 seats, 19.0% Seats won 59 3 Seat change 15 1 Popular vote 40,572 11,871 Percentage 49.7% 14.5% Swing 7.9% 4.5%   Leader Scott Ainslie Alexander Davies Party Green Liberal Democrats Leader since 22 May 2014 5 March 2014 Leader's seat St Leonard's Streatham Wells (defeated) Last election 0 seats, 10.1% 15 seats, 28.3% Seats won 1 0 Seat change 1 15 Popular vote 12,620 10,456 Percentage 15.5% 12.8% Swing 5.4% 15.5%
Map of the results of the 2014 Lambeth council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green and Labour in red.
Leader of Largest Party before election Lib Peck Labour Subsequent Leader of Largest Party Lib Peck Labour

Notably, the Liberal Democrats lost all 15 of their seats, but one of their seats in Bishop's ward was lost by under 35 votes.

The Liberal Democrats finished as the runners up in 4 wards, the Conservatives in 8, the Greens in 6, Labour in 2 and UKIP in 1.

Summary of results

Lambeth Council election result 2014[2][3]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	59			+15	93.7	49.7	40,572	+7.9
	Green	1			+1	1.6	15.5	12,620	+5.4
	Conservative	3			−1	4.8	14.5	11,871	-4.5
	Liberal Democrats	0			−15		12.8	10,456	-15.5
	UKIP	0			±0		5.4	4,385	+5.3
	TUSC	0			±0		1.3	1,080	N/A
	Independent	0			±0		0.4	315	+0.1
	Socialist (GB)	0			±0		0.2	176	+0.1
	Pirate	0			±0		0.2	129	N/A

59	3	1
Labour	Con

Results by ward

* - Existing Councillor seeking re-election.

Bishop's

Bishop's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jennifer Moseley	1,106	37.3
	Labour	Kevin Craig	1,061
	Labour	Ben Kind	975
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Braithwaite*	949	32.0
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Truesdale*	939
	Liberal Democrats	Mathew Hanney	777
	Green	Sam Brightbart	304	10.3
	Green	Clive Croft	295
	Conservative	David Frost	292	9.9
	Conservative	Edward Harrison	291
	Conservative	Lee Rotherham	284
	Green	Bart Gorissen	272
	UKIP	Andrew Hayes	248	8.4
	TUSC	El Morris	63	2.1
Total votes			7,857	72.1%	-13.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Brixton Hill

Brixton Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adrian Garden	1,849	49.8
	Labour	Florence Eshalomi *	1,791
	Labour	Martin Tiedemann	1,560
	Green	Roger Baker	818	22.0
	Green	Andrew Child	768
	Green	Betty Mehari	719
	Conservative	James Calder	415	11.2
	Conservative	Charles Tankard	381
	Conservative	Michael Woolley	310
	UKIP	Paul Gregory	254	6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Keating	244	6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Liz Maffei	231
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Pritchard	228
	TUSC	Lisa Bainbridge	132	3.6
	TUSC	Alex Richardson	83
	TUSC	Jessica Walters	74
Total votes			9,857
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Clapham Common

Clapham Common (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Timothy Briggs	1,386	37.5
	Conservative	Louise Nathanson	1,154
	Conservative	Bernard Gentry	1,148
	Labour	Tim Goodwin	1,020	32.0
	Labour	Nichola Hartwell	955
	Labour	Jack Pascoe	943
	Green	Hannah Cutler	433	13.5
	Green	Peter Kelly	372
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Bryant	268	10.2
	Green	Shash Selander	268
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Drage	247
	Liberal Democrats	Ruhi Hayat-Khan	229
	UKIP	Anne Marie Waters	216	6.8
Total votes			9,364
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clapham Town

Clapham Town (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Linda Bray	1,930	50.5
	Labour	Christopher Wellbelove *	1,853
	Labour	Nigel Haselden *	1,842
	Conservative	Hannah Ginnett	973	25.5
	Conservative	Sebastian Lowe	944
	Conservative	Gareth Wallace	848
	Green	Marion Prideaux	427	11.2
	Green	Julian Hall	423
	Green	Gerard Keenan	355
	Liberal Democrats	Baroness Rosalind Grender	253	6.6
	UKIP	Cameron Murdoch	191	5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Penning	142
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Williams	122
	Socialist (GB)	Oliver Bond	46	1.2
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Coldharbour

Coldharbour (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rachel Heywood *	2,232	57.8
	Labour	Matt Parr *	2,037
	Labour	Donatus Anyanwu *	2,014
	Green	Solomon Smith	742	19.2
	Green	Thomas Wood	680
	Green	Rashid Nix	638
	Conservative	Yvonne Stewart-Williams	398	6.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rachel Lester	225	5.8
	Conservative	Carl Belgrove	224
	Conservative	Edward Watkins	221
	UKIP	Johan Ward	127	3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Morfey	126
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Waddington	126
	Independent	David Warner	100	2.6
	Independent	Boniface Awogta	76	2.0
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

- Rachel Heywood was elected as a Labour Councillor. Heywood resigned the party whip in April 2016 and now sits as an Independent councillor.[4][5][6]

Ferndale

Ferndale (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sally Prentice *	1,762	50.0
	Labour	Paul McGlone *	1,696
	Labour	Neil Sabharwal *	1,499
	Green	Edward Gillespie	625	17.7
	Green	Philip Woolley	619
	Conservative	Thomas Hatton	493	14.0
	Conservative	Paul Mawdsley	444
	Conservative	Michael Timmins	431
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Vaus	256	7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Tuffrey	221
	Liberal Democrats	John Medway	211
	UKIP	Elizabeth Erwin Jones	196	5.6
	TUSC	James Ivens	113	3.2
	Socialist (GB)	Daniel Lambert	81	2.3
Total votes			8,647
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Gipsy Hill

Gipsy Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Matthew Bennett *	2,242	23.7%
	Labour	Niranjan Francis *	2,202	23.3%
	Labour	Jennifer Braithwaite *	2,183	23.1%
	Conservative	Tom Martin	436	4.6%
	Conservative	Ali Kayikkiran	434	4.6%
	Conservative	Said Gutin	423	4.5%
	Green	Ben McKeown	364	3.8%
	Green	Cath Potter	317	3.4%
	Green	Paul Wynter	257	2.7%
	Liberal Democrats	David Hare	164	1.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Marietta Crichton-Stuart	161	1.7%
	UKIP	Eddie Otoyo	142	1.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Marcus van Breugel	133	1.4%
Total votes			9,458
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Herne Hill

Herne Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michelle Agdomar	2,420	49.5
	Labour	Jim Dickson *	2,373
	Labour	Jack Holborn	2,198
	Green	Amelia Womack	1,357	27.8
	Green	Nicholas Edwards	1,269
	Green	Luke Hildyard	1,103
	Conservative	Claire Baker	470	9.6
	Conservative	Simon Hooberman	387
	Conservative	Heidi Nicholson	381
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Keen	351	7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Price	241
	Liberal Democrats	Lawrence Price	187
	UKIP	Steven Stanbury	168	3.4
	TUSC	Louise Scott	121	2.5
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Knight's Hill

Knight's Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jackie Meldrum *	2,182	60.4
	Labour	Jane Pickard *	2,169
	Labour	Sonia Winifred	1,911
	Conservative	Julia Belgrove	468	13.0
	Green	Nicholas Giannissis	457	12.7
	Conservative	Tim Collins	442
	Green	Lianna Etkind	388
	Conservative	Tony Kimm	382
	Green	Hugo Estevez	365
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Hardware	256	7.1
	UKIP	Helena Kowalska	249	6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Libby Calton	238
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Heather	202
Total votes			9,709
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Larkhall

Larkhall (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Marsha de Cordova	1,809	50.0
	Labour	Christiana Valcarcel *	1,651
	Labour	Andy Wilson	1,503
	Conservative	Victoria Lowe	651	16.4
	Conservative	Matthew Jupp	570
	Green	Lisa Perry	546	15.0
	Conservative	Alison Trelawny	517
	Green	Joe Dalton	492
	Green	Ciaran Osborne	431
	Liberal Democrats	Claire Church	329	9.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Mills	271
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair MacDonald	216
	UKIP	Sean Marriott	210	5.8
	TUSC	Alexander Betteridge	100	2.8
	Socialist (GB)	Adam Buick	49	1.4
Total votes			9,289
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Oval

Oval (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Claire Holland	2,105	46.4
	Labour	Jack Hopkins *	2,081
	Labour	Jane Edbrooke	2,013
	Liberal Democrats	Ishbel Brown *	903	20.0
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Monger	769
	Liberal Democrats	George Turner	579
	Green	Anna Geffert	570	12.6
	Conservative	Stephen Humphreys	538	11.9
	Conservative	Glencora Senior	512
	Green	Sandra Young	478
	Conservative	Pawan Sharma	444
	Green	Bernard O'Sullivan	432
	UKIP	Lucia Otoyo	322	7.1
	TUSC	Steve Nally	102	2.2
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Prince's

Prince's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Amos*	2,342	50.0
	Labour	Chris Marsh	2,160
	Labour	Joanne Simpson	2,058
	Conservative	Claire Barker	761	16.2
	Conservative	James Bellis	705
	Conservative	Michael Poole-Wilson	606
	Green	Eleanor Halsall	548	11.7
	Green	Joe Taylor	479
	Liberal Democrats	Vivienne Baines	441	9.4
	Green	Fern Lindsay	428
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Baines	401
	Liberal Democrats	Daisy Christodoulou	360
	UKIP	John Dodds	334	7.1
	Independent	John Howard	170	3.6
	TUSC	Laurence Hutchinson	95	2.0
Total votes			11,888
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Leonard's

St Leonard's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Hill	1,218	11.6%
	Green	Scott Ainslie	1,161	11.0%
	Labour	Saleha Jaffer	1,158	11.0%
	Labour	Michael Burke	1,125	10.7%
	Green	Jonathan Bartley	1,102	10.5%
	Green	Rachel Laurence	921	8.8%
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Palmer *	913	8.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Geiss *	738	7%
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Stanmer	695	6.6%
	Conservative	Felicity Newall	432	4.1%
	Conservative	Charles Jarrett	415	3.9%
	Conservative	Wendy Newall	395	3.8%
	UKIP	Mark Trasenster	236	2.2%
Turnout			10,296
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Green gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Stockwell

Stockwell (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alex Bigham	2,026	53.0
	Labour	Imogen Walker *	1,778
	Labour	Guilherme Rosa	1,769
	Conservative	Sarah Barr	608	15.9
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Bottrall	552	14.4
	Conservative	Craig Barrett	507
	Green	Sam Low	502	13.1
	Green	Maritza Tschepp	431
	Conservative	Robert McMillan	430
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew McConnell	416
	Liberal Democrats	Fernanda Correia-Sefzick	380
	Green	David Ville	366
	TUSC	Joana Santos	136	3.6
Total votes			9,901
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Hill

Streatham Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liz Atkins	1,736	41.2
	Labour	Rezina Chowdhury	1,582
	Labour	Iain Simpson	1,448
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Clyne *	1,272	30.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ashley Lumsden *	1,234
	Liberal Democrats	Kita Ogden *	1,100
	Green	David Bryant	515	12.2
	Conservative	Elaine Bailey	422	10.0
	Green	Leon Maurice-Jones	414
	Green	James Caspell	411
	Conservative	Mark Wallace	347
	Conservative	Philip Henwood	317
	UKIP	Peter Younghusband	222	5.3
	Independent	Kriss Harris	45	1.1
Total votes			11,065
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Streatham South

Streatham South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kazantzis *	2,050	61.1
	Labour	Danial Adilypour	1,992
	Labour	Clair Wilcox	1,986
	Conservative	Helen Smith	597	17.8
	Conservative	Jonathan Guinness	540
	Conservative	Jack Wharton	495
	Green	Emma Hinkson	408	12.2
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Morfey	301	9.0
	Green	Benjamin Spencer	291
	Liberal Democrats	Nazir Ahmed	275
	Liberal Democrats	Ahmad Ali	274
	Green	Nigel Melia	262
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham Wells

Streatham Wells (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Clark	1,916	43.7
	Labour	Mohammed Seedat	1,676
	Labour	Amelie Treppass	1,658
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Best *	1,458	33.2
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Davies *	1,354
	Liberal Democrats	Daphne Marchant *	936
	Green	Rachel Braverman	470	10.7
	Green	Sheila Freeman	429
	Green	Magda Devas	373
	Conservative	Stanley Davies	314	7.2
	Conservative	Lisabeth Liell	279
	Conservative	Teresa Tunstall	250
	UKIP	Simon Harman	231	5.3
Total votes			9,886
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Thornton

Thornton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lib Peck *	2,280	52.6
	Labour	Diana Morris *	2,220
	Labour	Edward Davie *	2,113
	UKIP	Bruce Machan	764	17.6
	Conservative	Simon Helmsley	664	15.3
	Conservative	Vernon de Maynard	570
	Conservative	Savill Young	481
	Green	Adrian Audsley	360	8.3
	Green	Hannah Kershaw	336
	Green	Charles Lankaster	272
	Liberal Democrats	Rebecca MacNair	271	6.3
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Brack	258
	Liberal Democrats	John Pindar	227
Total votes			10,816
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Thurlow Park

Thurlow Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anna Birley	2,312	49.0
	Labour	Fred Cowell	2,122
	Labour	Max Deckers Dowber	1,931
	Conservative	Irene Kimm	1,917	25.1
	Conservative	Luke Tryl	1,897
	Conservative	Graham Pycock	1,820
	Green	Matt Farrow	673	14.3
	Green	Pat Price-Tomes	544
	Green	Jo Stone-Fewings	540
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Thurburn	279	5.9
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	277	5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Malgorzata Baker	259
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Baker	254
Total votes			14,825
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Tulse Hill

Tulse Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Atkins	2,276	61.6
	Labour	Adedamola Aminu	2,073
	Labour	Mayor Marcia Cameron	2,044
	Green	Elkin Atwell	742	20.1
	Green	Jonathan Chuter	713
	Green	Will Wynter	615
	Conservative	Lavinia Cartwright	305	8.3
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Coldrick	266	7.2
	Conservative	John White	256
	Conservative	Martin Read	250
	Liberal Democrats	Terry Curtis	242
	Liberal Democrats	John Foster	185
	TUSC	Kieran O'Mant	105	2.8
	TUSC	Marcel Richards	78
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Vassall

Vassall (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacqui Dyer	1,751	50.0
	Labour	Paul Gadsby *	1,723
	Labour	Annie Gallop	1,671
	Green	Celia Cole	598	17.1
	Conservative	Paul Abbott	463	13.2
	Conservative	Stuart Barr	451
	Green	Owen Everett	451
	Liberal Democrats	Lindsay Avebury	445	12.7
	Green	John Walton	419
	Liberal Democrats	Collette Thomas	388
	Conservative	Joshua Gething	382
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Wyard	254
	Pirate	Mark Chapman	129	3.7
	TUSC	Dalton Montague	113	3.2
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections: 2014–2018

Knight's Hill

Knight's Hill by-election, 14 August 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sonia Winifred	1,265	63.7	2.3
	Conservative	Heidi Nicholson	248	12.5	0.4
	Green	Christopher Hocknell	230	11.6	1.1
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	99	5.0	1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Hardware	94	4.7	2.4
	Independent	Nelly Amos	51	2.6	N/A
Majority			1,017	51.2
Turnout			1,987
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was triggered when the incumbent Councillor, Sonia Winifred, was disqualified as she was still employed by the council at the time of the previous election. Winifred was re-elected.[7]

Prince's by-election, 7 May 2015

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Valia McClure	3,452	44.5
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett	1,748	22.5
	Conservative	Gareth Wallace	1,518	16.6
	Green	Marie James	901	11.6
	TUSC	Kingsley Abrahams	99	0.1
	Socialist (GB)	Danny Lambert	42	0.1	N/A
Majority			1,704
Turnout			7,760
	Labour hold		Swing

Gipsy Hill by-election, 9 June 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Luke Murphy	1,220	43.4	26.9
	Green	Peter Elliott	1,184	42.1	31.2
	Conservative	Leslie Maruziva	210	7.5	7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rosa Jesse	84	3.0	2.8
	UKIP	Elizabeth Jones	73	2.6	0.7
	Independent	Robin Lambert	24	0.9	0.9
	TUSC	Steven Nally	19	0.7	0.7
Majority			36	1.3	29.2
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was held following death of the incumbent Councillor. It was subsequently retained by Labour with a significantly reduced majority.

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EU referendum 2016

During the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum Lambeth voted 78% to remain in the EU and 22% to leave. Two of the three Labour MPs backed Remain, Chuka Umunna and Helen Hayes, whereas Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey backed Leave.

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