Council profile

Camden

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 55 seats in 20 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Labour have a majority on Camden Council. The council has 55 councillors in 20 wards. Seats by party: Labour 31, Lib Dem 10, Green 10, Conservative 3, Other 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Labour (Majority)
55 seats - 28 for a majority
31
3
10
10
1
Labour 31Conservative 3Lib Dem 10Green 10Other 1
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election Labour +1 Green −1
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (55 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Labour31.7%30
Green26.6%11
Lib Dem14.9%10
Conservative14.4%3
Reform8.7%0
Other3.7%1

2026 election results for Camden, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 55 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Labour 31
majority of 7; 28 needed
Closest result
Labour won the last seat by 18 votes over Green, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Labour gain from Green, 9 July 2026 (9 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
25%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BelsizeBloomsburyCamden SquareCamden TownFortune GreenFrognalGospel OakHampstead TownHaverstockHighgateHolborn & Covent GardenKentish Town NorthKentish Town SouthKilburnKing's CrossPrimrose HillRegent's ParkSouth HampsteadSt Pancras & Somers TownWest Hampstead
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
Belsize
Matthew Kirk, Judy Dixey, Tom Simon
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 33.9% lead 4.7 pts
Bloomsbury
Adam Harrison, Lilac Carr, Sabrina Francis
7 May 2026
Labour 36.8% lead 2.6 pts
Camden Square
Patricia Leman, Sagal Abdi-Wali
7 May 2026
Labour 38.2% lead 2.5 pts
Camden Town
Matt Cooper, Patricia Callaghan
7 May 2026
Labour 44.0% lead 9.6 pts
Fortune Green
Farrell Monk, Nancy Jirira, William Coles
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 37.0% lead 14.2 pts
Frognal
Juliette Graham, Steve Adams
7 May 2026
Conservative 46.0% lead 29.9 pts
Gospel Oak
Larraine Revah, Richard Atkins, Marcus Boyland
7 May 2026
Green 34.5% lead 0.9 pts
Hampstead Town
Linda Chung, Stephen Stark
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 36.3% lead 4.5 pts
Haverstock
Nasrine Djemai, Kemi Atolagbe, Rebecca Filer
7 May 2026
Labour 38.4% lead 4.4 pts
Highgate
Anna Wright, Lorna Russell, Camron Aref-Adib
7 May 2026
Green 39.4% lead 1.9 pts
Holborn & Covent Garden
Jim Monahan, James White, Hamza Chowdhury
7 May 2026
Green 38.9% lead 7.2 pts
Kentish Town North
James Slater, Sylvia McNamara
7 May 2026
Labour 47.5% lead 7.1 pts
Kentish Town South
Joseph Ball, Annabelle Williams, Meric Apak
7 May 2026
Labour 42.6% lead 4.8 pts
Kilburn
Ash Atkinson, Andre Lopez-Turner, Eddie Hanson
7 May 2026
Labour 34.8% lead 0.5 pts
King's Cross
Lotis Bautista, Jonathan Simpson, Liam Martin-Lane
7 May 2026
Labour 40.8% lead 10.5 pts
Primrose Hill
Dan Corby, Lauren Keiles, Suleiman Osman
7 May 2026
Labour 33.2% lead 6.4 pts
Regent's Park
Ruman Jaigirdar, Victoria Mery, Nanouche Umeadi
7 May 2026
Green 38.3% lead 5.6 pts
South Hampstead
Arun Kumar, Izzy Lenga, Francesca Reynolds
7 May 2026
Labour 27.7% lead 5.3 pts
St Pancras & Somers Town
Shah Miah, Shah Bakth, Samata Khatoon
7 May 2026
Labour 35.9% lead 3.0 pts
West Hampstead
Patrick Stillman, Aarti Wadhwani, Janet Grauberg
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 41.0% lead 18.4 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
9 July 2026Regent's ParkLabour gain from Green32.4%
28 August 2025West HampsteadLib Dem gain from Labour54.4%
5 September 2024Camden SquareLabour hold47.7%
5 September 2024Kentish Town SouthLabour hold46.8%
5 September 2024KilburnLabour hold51.5%
2 May 2024FrognalConservative hold49.8%
30 November 2023HighgateGreen hold58.7%
1 June 2023South HampsteadLabour hold35.7%
7 July 2022Hampstead TownLib Dem gain from Labour40.9%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Hampstead and Highgate51%LabourLabour 49%
Holborn and St Pancras49%LabourLabour 48%

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 Camden

210,140 residents in 92,784 households

Voted Leave in 2016
25% 27 below GB
Degree or higher
57% 23 above GB
No qualifications
12% 6 below GB
Own their home
30% 31 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
34% 17 above GB
Rent privately
36% 16 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
42% 11 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.