Council profile

Brent

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 57 seats in 22 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Labour run Brent Council as a minority administration. The council has 57 councillors in 22 wards. Seats by party: Labour 26, Lib Dem 11, Conservative 11, Green 9. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Labour (Minority)
57 seats - 29 for a majority
26
11
11
9
Labour 26Conservative 11Lib Dem 11Green 9
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (57 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Labour29.1%26
Green22.2%9
Conservative19.8%11
Lib Dem14.7%11
Reform9.7%0
Other4.5%0

2026 election results for Brent, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 57 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Labour 26
3 short of the 29 needed for a majority
Closest result
Labour won the last seat by 6 votes over Conservative, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Lib Dem hold, 18 February 2025 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
40%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AlpertonBarnhillBrondesbury ParkCricklewood & MapesburyDollis HillHarlesden & Kensal GreenKentonKilburnKingsburyNorthwick ParkPrestonQueens ParkQueensburyRoundwoodStonebridgeSudburyTokyngtonWelsh HarpWembley CentralWembley HillWembley ParkWillesden Green
LabourConservativeLib DemGreen

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
Alperton
Charlie Clinton, Krishna Chauhan, Anton Georgiou
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.5% lead 26.6 pts
Barnhill
Rhoda Ibrahim, Robert Johnson
7 May 2026
Labour 26.2% lead 4.1 pts
Brondesbury Park
Ryan Hack, Tashi Thomas
7 May 2026
Labour 50.7% lead 23.4 pts
Cricklewood & Mapesbury
Tariq Dar, Gwen Grahl
7 May 2026
Labour 40.9% lead 13.2 pts
Dollis Hill
Liz Dixon, Arshad Mahmood, Parvez Ahmed
7 May 2026
Labour 39.2% lead 17.6 pts
Harlesden & Kensal Green
Amandine Alexandre, Matt Kelcher, Tina Amadi
7 May 2026
Labour 37.5% lead 0.6 pts
Kenton
Suresh Kansagra, Anup Patel, Sai Madabhushi
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.4% lead 14.7 pts
Kilburn
Paul Ryan, Suzanne Gallagher, Stephen Malonga
7 May 2026
Green 40.6% lead 7.4 pts
Kingsbury
Saqib Butt, Jasbinder Bajwa
7 May 2026
Labour 33.1% lead 8.0 pts
Northwick Park
Keith Perrin, Nisha Vakani
7 May 2026
Green 34.9% lead 10.4 pts
Preston
Harshadbhai Patel, Michael Maurice
7 May 2026
Conservative 32.4% lead 6.5 pts
Queens Park
Fiona Mulaisho, Barbara Want, Deborah Unger
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 38.5% lead 12.5 pts
Queensbury
Kanta Mistry, Jayanti Patel, Manoj Mishra
7 May 2026
Conservative 51.9% lead 31.3 pts
Roundwood
Samiah Anderson, Fleur Donnelly-Jackson, Jake Rubin
7 May 2026
Labour 43.9% lead 12.5 pts
Stonebridge
Trevor Blackman, Abdi Aden, Promise Knight
7 May 2026
Labour 29.0% lead 11.9 pts
Sudbury
Paul Lorber, Nirmala Patel
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.0% lead 25.1 pts
Tokyngton
Muhammed Butt, Shamim Chowdhury
7 May 2026
Labour 34.2% lead 2.7 pts
Welsh Harp
Amer Agha, Sapna Chadha, Iftekhar Ahmed
7 May 2026
Labour 26.2% lead 0.6 pts
Wembley Central
Jigar Shah, Daniel Brown, Hetal Jansali
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 34.5% lead 5.7 pts
Wembley Hill
Lloyd McLeish, Angela De Souza, Floyd Rosario
7 May 2026
Labour 36.2% lead 6.1 pts
Wembley Park
Najib Warsame, Iman Moghaddam
7 May 2026
Green 33.5% lead 7.5 pts
Willesden Green
George Burn, Saqlain Choudry, Mary Mitchell
7 May 2026
Labour 35.3% lead 1.2 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
18 February 2025AlpertonLib Dem hold48.5%
4 July 2024Queens ParkLabour hold43.6%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Brent East41%LabourLabour 42%
Brent West38%LabourLabour 43%
Queen's Park and Maida Vale16%LabourLabour 47%
Harrow East5%ConservativeConservative 50%

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 Brent

339,823 residents in 118,601 households

Voted Leave in 2016
40% 12 below GB
Degree or higher
40% 6 above GB
No qualifications
22% 4 above GB
Own their home
38% 23 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
24% 7 above GB
Rent privately
36% 16 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
37% 6 above GB
Aged 65 and over
14% 8 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.

Councils most like this one

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.