Council profile

Croydon

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 70 seats in 28 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Croydon has a directly elected Conservative mayor. Labour hold 30 of the 70 council seats. The council has 70 councillors in 28 wards. Seats by party: Labour 30, Conservative 28, Green 8, Reform 2, Lib Dem 2. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Conservative mayor
70 seats - 36 for a majority
2
30
28
2
8
Reform 2Labour 30Conservative 28Lib Dem 2Green 8
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (70 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Conservative26.0%28
Labour25.3%30
Green21.8%8
Reform14.0%2
Lib Dem10.9%2
Other2.0%0

2026 election results for Croydon, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 70 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Labour 30
6 short of the 36 needed for a majority
Closest result
Reform won the last seat by 22 votes over Conservative, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Conservative hold, 9 May 2024 (4 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
46%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Addiscombe EastAddiscombe WestBensham ManorBroad GreenCoulsdon TownCrystal Palace & Upper NorwoodFairfieldKenleyNew Addington NorthNew Addington SouthNorbury & Pollards HillNorbury ParkOld CoulsdonPark Hill & WhitgiftPurley & WoodcotePurley Oaks & RiddlesdownSandersteadSelhurstSelsdon & Addington VillageSelsdon Vale & ForestdaleShirley NorthShirley SouthSouth CroydonSouth NorwoodThornton HeathWaddonWest ThorntonWoodside
LabourConservativeReformGreen

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
Addiscombe East
Jeet Bains, Maddie Henson
7 May 2026
Conservative 29.1% lead 1.2 pts
Addiscombe West
Sean Fitzsimons, Nick Beall, Patricia Hay-Justice
7 May 2026
Labour 34.7% lead 9.3 pts
Bensham Manor
Ellie Sandover, Humayun Kabir, Mohana Manoharan
7 May 2026
Labour 29.9% lead 7.3 pts
Broad Green
Manju Shahul-Hameed, Aba Amoah, Tom Bowell
7 May 2026
Labour 40.9% lead 19.0 pts
Coulsdon Town
Ian Parker, Luke Shortland, Nikhil Thampi
7 May 2026
Conservative 37.1% lead 19.9 pts
Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood
Natalie Vesty, Mark Adderley, Claire Bonham
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 34.1% lead 5.0 pts
Fairfield
Ria Patel, Esther Sutton, Paul Ainscough
7 May 2026
Green 40.7% lead 12.9 pts
Kenley
Gayle Gander, Ola Kolade
7 May 2026
Conservative 46.7% lead 29.9 pts
New Addington North
Kola Agboola, Afuah Asantewaa Agyemang
7 May 2026
Labour 35.3% lead 9.5 pts
New Addington South
Adam Kellett, Scott Holman
7 May 2026
Reform 33.8% lead 5.6 pts
Norbury & Pollards Hill
John Wentworth, Leila Ben-Hassel
7 May 2026
Labour 37.9% lead 9.6 pts
Norbury Park
Appu Srinivasan, Julie Setchfield
7 May 2026
Labour 35.1% lead 7.6 pts
Old Coulsdon
Margaret Bird, Gill Hickson
7 May 2026
Conservative 38.1% lead 6.9 pts
Park Hill & Whitgift
Andrew Price
7 May 2026
Conservative 40.7% lead 19.2 pts
Purley & Woodcote
James Hillam, Simon Brew, Samir Dwesar
7 May 2026
Conservative 46.2% lead 28.4 pts
Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown
Alasdair Stewart, Endri Llabuti
7 May 2026
Conservative 37.1% lead 15.8 pts
Sanderstead
Helen Redfern, Lynne Hale, Yvette Hopley
7 May 2026
Conservative 54.0% lead 40.9 pts
Selhurst
Catherine Wilson, Mohammed Islam
7 May 2026
Labour 38.1% lead 9.3 pts
Selsdon & Addington Village
Joseph Lee, Robert Ward
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.7% lead 14.8 pts
Selsdon Vale & Forestdale
Jack Barwell, Andy Stranack
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.3% lead 12.4 pts
Shirley North
Mark Johnson, Richard Chatterjee, Sue Bennett
7 May 2026
Conservative 31.0% lead 9.3 pts
Shirley South
Scott Roche, Jason Cummings
7 May 2026
Conservative 34.4% lead 12.3 pts
South Croydon
Michael Neal, Matthew Dormer, Danielle Denton
7 May 2026
Conservative 29.3% lead 4.0 pts
South Norwood
Melanie Felten, Martyn Post, Tracey Hague
7 May 2026
Green 33.7% lead 2.6 pts
Thornton Heath
Jose Fernandes, Vicky Newton, Ben Taylor
7 May 2026
Labour 35.2% lead 7.4 pts
Waddon
Ellily Ponnuthurai, Rowenna Davis, Sam Attwater
7 May 2026
Labour 34.6% lead 11.4 pts
West Thornton
Stuart King, Janet Campbell, Rym Daoud
7 May 2026
Labour 38.0% lead 18.3 pts
Woodside
Brigitte Graham, Laura Bradnam, Amy Foster
7 May 2026
Labour 37.1% lead 6.7 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
9 May 2024Park Hill & WhitgiftConservative hold42.9%
2 May 2024WoodsideLabour hold49.3%
3 November 2022Selsdon Vale and ForestdaleConservative hold46.3%
30 June 2022South CroydonConservative hold42.9%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Croydon West31%LabourLabour 45%
Croydon East29%LabourLabour 39%
Croydon South26%ConservativeConservative 44%
Streatham and Croydon North14%LabourLabour 47%

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 Croydon

390,724 residents in 152,938 households

Voted Leave in 2016
46% 6 below GB
Degree or higher
41% 7 above GB
No qualifications
16% 2 below GB
Own their home
55% 6 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
18% 1 above GB
Rent privately
26% 6 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
33% 2 above GB
Aged 65 and over
17% 5 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.