Council profile

Bromley

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 58 seats in 22 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

The Conservatives have a majority on Bromley Council. The council has 58 councillors in 22 wards. Seats by party: Conservative 35, Labour 8, Lib Dem 6, Reform 5, Other 4. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Conservative (Majority)
58 seats - 30 for a majority
5
8
35
6
4
Reform 5Labour 8Conservative 35Lib Dem 6Other 4
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election Other +1 Reform −1
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (58 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Conservative34.8%35
Reform20.2%6
Labour16.8%8
Green13.8%0
Lib Dem11.0%6
Other3.5%3

2026 election results for Bromley, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 58 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Conservative 35
majority of 12; 30 needed
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 21 votes over Labour, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Reform gain from Conservative, 24 July 2025 (3 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
49%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Beckenham Town & Copers CopeBickley & SundridgeBiggin HillBromley Common & HolwoodBromley TownChelsfieldChislehurstClock HouseCrystal Palace & AnerleyDarwinFarnborough & CroftonHayes & Coney HallKelsey & Eden ParkMottinghamOrpingtonPenge & CatorPetts Wood & KnollPlaistowShortlands & Park LangleySt Mary CraySt Paul's CrayWest Wickham
LabourConservativeLib DemReformOther

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
Beckenham Town & Copers Cope
Gita Bapat, Steven Jefferies, Chloe-Jane Ross
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 34.3% lead 6.6 pts
Bickley & Sundridge
Mark Brock, Kate Lymer, Colin Smith
7 May 2026
Conservative 50.3% lead 33.7 pts
Biggin Hill
Steve James, Tim Allitt
7 May 2026
Reform 44.7% lead 7.5 pts
Bromley Common & Holwood
Ian Payne, Sunil Gupta, Simon Innes
7 May 2026
Conservative 37.3% lead 8.5 pts
Bromley Town
Sam Webber, Julie Ireland, Graeme Casey
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 33.0% lead 9.2 pts
Chelsfield
Mike Botting, Sumeet Jalan
7 May 2026
Conservative 44.3% lead 21.3 pts
Chislehurst
Alison Stammers, Mark Smith, Mike Jack
7 May 2026
Chislehurst Matters 60.1% lead 43.2 pts
Clock House
Josh King, Jeremy Adams, Jenny Coleman
7 May 2026
Labour 45.6% lead 26.2 pts
Crystal Palace & Anerley
Ruth McGregor, Ryan Thomson
7 May 2026
Labour 48.5% lead 14.3 pts
Darwin
Jonathan Andrews
7 May 2026
Conservative 49.6% lead 12.2 pts
Farnborough & Crofton
Andy Dourmoush, Sheri Isa, Angela Page
7 May 2026
Conservative 42.7% lead 16.6 pts
Hayes & Coney Hall
Alexa Michael, Diane Smith, Josh Coldspring-White
7 May 2026
Conservative 47.5% lead 27.9 pts
Kelsey & Eden Park
Mark Amis, Michael Doble, Chris Phillips
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.4% lead 9.5 pts
Mottingham
Giles Cordwell, Louise Sage
7 May 2026
Conservative 30.1% lead 1.7 pts
Orpington
Pauline Tunnicliffe, Kim Botting
7 May 2026
Conservative 40.3% lead 15.7 pts
Penge & Cator
Simon Jeal, Kevin Kennedy-Brooks, Kathy Bance
7 May 2026
Labour 45.8% lead 14.4 pts
Petts Wood & Knoll
Simon Fawthrop, Tony Owen, George Barnes
7 May 2026
Conservative 50.5% lead 32.6 pts
Plaistow
Panos Papayannakos, Alwin Puthenpurakal
7 May 2026
Conservative 27.9% lead 4.3 pts
Shortlands & Park Langley
Serena Gupta, Gemma Turrell, Adam Grant
7 May 2026
Conservative 45.4% lead 29.9 pts
St Mary Cray
Yvonne Bear, Shaun Slator, Harry Stranger
7 May 2026
Conservative 39.7% lead 10.7 pts
St Paul's Cray
Will Rawles, Christopher Marlow, Dean Miller
7 May 2026
Reform 33.1% lead 9.3 pts
West Wickham
Christine Harris, Daniel Burden, Hannah Gray
7 May 2026
Conservative 48.2% lead 29.6 pts

Changed party since the election

1 councillor now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
St Paul's CrayDean MillerReform 2026Independent

Every council by-election since 2021

3 by-elections since July 2021, 1 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
24 July 2025Bromley Common & HolwoodReform gain from Conservative34.0%
9 May 2024Shortlands & Park LangleyConservative hold42.4%
14 December 2023Hayes and Coney HallConservative hold48.0%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Beckenham and Penge33%LabourLabour 46%
Orpington30%ConservativeConservative 33%
Bromley and Biggin Hill29%ConservativeConservative 38%
Eltham and Chislehurst8%LabourLabour 39%

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 Bromley

329,986 residents in 135,815 households

Voted Leave in 2016
49% 3 below GB
Degree or higher
43% 9 above GB
No qualifications
14% 4 below GB
Own their home
68% 7 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
13% 4 below GB
Rent privately
17% 3 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
27% 4 below GB
Aged 65 and over
22% same as 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.