Council profile

Barnet

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 63 seats in 24 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Labour run Barnet Council as a minority administration. The council has 63 councillors in 24 wards. Seats by party: Labour 31, Conservative 31, Green 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Labour (Minority)
63 seats - 32 for a majority
31
31
1
Labour 31Conservative 31Green 1
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (63 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Conservative33.9%31
Labour26.1%31
Green15.9%1
Reform14.6%0
Lib Dem6.0%0
Other3.6%0

2026 election results for Barnet, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 63 seats up, then every four years
Largest parties
Labour and Conservative 31 each
1 short of the 32 needed for a majority
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 5 votes over another Conservative candidate, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Conservative hold, 30 October 2025 (6 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
38%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Barnet ValeBrunswick ParkBurnt OakChilds HillColindale NorthColindale SouthCricklewoodEast BarnetEast FinchleyEdgwareEdgwareburyFinchley Church EndFriern BarnetGarden SuburbGolders GreenHendonHigh BarnetMill HillTotteridge & WoodsideUnderhillWest FinchleyWest HendonWhetstoneWoodhouse
LabourConservativeGreen

Coloured by the party holding most of the ward's seats today; where seats are split evenly, by the party with the higher share at the last election.

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillorsLast election
Barnet Vale
Sue Baker, David Longstaff, Richard Barnes
7 May 2026
Labour 32.8% lead 1.6 pts
Brunswick Park
Suren Ramanakumar, Lewis Preston-Kyrionymou, Paul Roberts
7 May 2026
Conservative 31.2% lead 2.8 pts
Burnt Oak
Kamal Gurung, Sara Conway, Charlotte Daus
7 May 2026
Labour 33.8% lead 13.0 pts
Childs Hill
Cory Turner, Jeremy Conway, Adam Gheasuddin
7 May 2026
Conservative 41.0% lead 18.0 pts
Colindale North
Erin Sanders-McDonagh, Andreas Ioannidis
7 May 2026
Labour 36.6% lead 13.8 pts
Colindale South
Nagus Narenthira, Humayune Khalick, Gill Sargeant
7 May 2026
Labour 34.1% lead 9.1 pts
Cricklewood
Alan Schneiderman, Anne Clarke
7 May 2026
Labour 41.4% lead 17.4 pts
East Barnet
Philip Cohen, Simon Radford, David Allen
7 May 2026
Labour 30.0% lead 0.4 pts
East Finchley
Katy Minshall, Ajith Menon, Alison Moore
7 May 2026
Labour 45.8% lead 25.7 pts
Edgware
Nick Mearing-Smith, Lucy Wakeley, Shuey Gordon
7 May 2026
Conservative 51.1% lead 33.3 pts
Edgwarebury
Lachhya Gurung, Benjamin Goldberg
7 May 2026
Conservative 57.4% lead 41.9 pts
Finchley Church End
Josh Mastin-Lee, Sachin Rajput, Jennifer Grocock
7 May 2026
Conservative 45.4% lead 25.7 pts
Friern Barnet
Beverley Kotey, Barry Rawlings, Pauline Webb
7 May 2026
Labour 34.8% lead 6.7 pts
Garden Suburb
Martha Levy, Michael Mire
7 May 2026
Conservative 56.5% lead 42.5 pts
Golders Green
Peter Zinkin, Dean Cohen
7 May 2026
Conservative 65.8% lead 54.4 pts
Hendon
Alex Prager, Shimon Ryde, Asher Bennett
7 May 2026
Conservative 52.0% lead 36.2 pts
High Barnet
Emma Whysall, James Esses
7 May 2026
Conservative 33.0% lead 2.5 pts
Mill Hill
Nicole Ereira, Raffy Lachter, Elliot Simberg
7 May 2026
Conservative 34.3% lead 19.6 pts
Totteridge & Woodside
Caroline Stock, Richard Cornelius, Alison Cornelius
7 May 2026
Conservative 47.8% lead 27.5 pts
Underhill
Josh Tapper, Zahra Beg
7 May 2026
Labour 26.8% lead 8.8 pts
West Finchley
Kath McGuirk, Danny Rich, Ross Houston
7 May 2026
Labour 35.4% lead 13.1 pts
West Hendon
Rishikesh Chakraborty, Carrie Reiners, Andrea Bilbow
7 May 2026
Labour 32.7% lead 11.5 pts
Whetstone
Ezra Cohen, Stephen Lewis
7 May 2026
Labour 32.9% lead 0.1 pts
Woodhouse
Anne Hutton, Charli Thompson
7 May 2026
Green 30.1% lead 1.0 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

6 by-elections since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
30 October 2025HendonConservative hold46.8%
15 May 2025WhetstoneLabour hold33.5%
6 March 2025Finchley Church EndConservative hold45.2%
13 February 2025Burnt OakLabour hold45.0%
4 July 2024Barnet ValeLabour hold41.1%
16 February 2023Golders GreenConservative hold66.8%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Finchley and Golders Green33%LabourLabour 45%
Hendon31%LabourLabour 41%
Chipping Barnet31%LabourLabour 44%
Hornsey and Friern Barnet5%LabourLabour 55%

Share of the council: the proportion of its census neighbourhoods (2021 LSOAs) in each seat. The projection is PollCheck's demographic model at current polling, not a forecast.

Who lives in Barnet

389,352 residents in 148,893 households

Voted Leave in 2016
38% 14 below GB
Degree or higher
49% 15 above GB
No qualifications
15% 3 below GB
Own their home
53% 8 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
13% 4 below GB
Rent privately
33% 13 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
32% 1 above GB
Aged 65 and over
18% 4 below GB

GB figure. 2021 Census (Scotland: 2022): age as a share of residents aged 15 and over, qualifications of residents aged 16 and over, housing as a share of households. Leave: 2016 EU referendum, Electoral Commission results by counting area.

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Closest on the measures above: the 2016 Leave vote, age, qualifications and housing. Maps show which party holds each ward.

Sources and method

Seat totals and control: PollCheck council control tracker. Councillors: Open Council Data (CC BY-SA 4.0). Election results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), with some vote counts from DCLEAPIL, Leman (2025) (CC BY-SA 4.0), and corrections checked against councils' official declarations. Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census: Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland.

Councillor lists and DCLEAPIL-derived vote counts on this page are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In wards electing more than one councillor, a party's share counts only its leading candidate (the Rallings and Thrasher method). Independents count individually. The lead is the gap between the top two parties' shares.