Council profile

Greenwich

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 55 seats in 23 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Labour have a majority on Greenwich Council. The council has 55 councillors in 23 wards. Seats by party: Labour 35, Green 13, Conservative 6, Reform 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Labour (Majority)
55 seats - 28 for a majority
1
35
6
13
Reform 1Labour 35Conservative 6Green 13
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (55 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Labour31.8%35
Green27.0%13
Reform17.0%1
Conservative14.8%6
Lib Dem6.6%0
Other2.8%0

2026 election results for Greenwich, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 55 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Labour 35
majority of 15; 28 needed
Closest result
Labour won the last seat by 17 votes over Green, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Green gain from Labour, 26 June 2025 (5 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
44%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Abbey WoodBlackheath WestcombeCharlton HornfairCharlton Village & RiversideEast GreenwichEltham PageEltham Park & ProgressEltham Town & Avery HillGreenwich CreeksideGreenwich ParkGreenwich PeninsulaKidbrooke ParkKidbrooke Village & SutcliffeMiddle Park & Horn ParkMottingham, Coldharbour & New ElthamPlumstead & GlyndonPlumstead CommonShooters HillThamesmead MooringsWest ThamesmeadWoolwich ArsenalWoolwich CommonWoolwich Dockyard
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
Abbey Wood
Tom Creswell, Jummy Dawodu, Gaumaya Ranabhat
7 May 2026
Labour 28.8% lead 5.0 pts
Blackheath Westcombe
Christine St. Matthew-Daniel, Mariam Lolavar, Leo Fletcher
7 May 2026
Labour 29.3% lead 4.6 pts
Charlton Hornfair
Jessica Holland, Bren Albiston
7 May 2026
Green 35.0% lead 2.2 pts
Charlton Village & Riverside
David Gardner, Jo Van Den Broek
7 May 2026
Labour 39.4% lead 6.6 pts
East Greenwich
George Edgar, Patrick Ives, Jo Land
7 May 2026
Green 41.7% lead 10.6 pts
Eltham Page
Paul Banks, Jane Dickenson
7 May 2026
Reform 33.3% lead 1.0 pts
Eltham Park & Progress
Gabriella Olumide, Jeremy Fraser
7 May 2026
Labour 28.9% lead 4.6 pts
Eltham Town & Avery Hill
Patricia Greenwell, Rob Sayers, Charlie Davis
7 May 2026
Conservative 34.3% lead 10.5 pts
Greenwich Creekside
Calum Mulligan, Tillie Muir
7 May 2026
Labour 37.0% lead 4.0 pts
Greenwich Park
Karin Tearle, Stacy Smith
7 May 2026
Green 40.3% lead 7.4 pts
Greenwich Peninsula
Denise Scott-McDonald, Austin McGrath, Claire Selby
7 May 2026
Green 33.4% lead 2.0 pts
Kidbrooke Park
John Fahy, Nikki Thurlow
7 May 2026
Labour 34.8% lead 11.3 pts
Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe
Sandra Bauer, Lewis Hurst
7 May 2026
Labour 36.1% lead 6.3 pts
Middle Park & Horn Park
Olu Babatola, Rachel Taggart-Ryan
7 May 2026
Labour 35.6% lead 6.3 pts
Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham
Roger Tester, Luke Warren, Matt Hartley
7 May 2026
Conservative 37.8% lead 13.4 pts
Plumstead & Glyndon
Tammy Aghedo, Jit Ranabhat, Adel Khaireh
7 May 2026
Labour 34.3% lead 9.5 pts
Plumstead Common
David Monteith, Leonie Barron, Stewart Christie
7 May 2026
Green 34.3% lead 5.2 pts
Shooters Hill
Tamasin Rhymes, Max Green
7 May 2026
Green 45.8% lead 17.6 pts
Thamesmead Moorings
Femi Solola, Averil Lekau
7 May 2026
Labour 47.9% lead 26.5 pts
West Thamesmead
Nathan Baffour-Awuah, Jahdia Spencer
7 May 2026
Labour 32.9% lead 6.7 pts
Woolwich Arsenal
Sam Littlewood, Jackie Smith, Joshua Ayodele
7 May 2026
Labour 36.8% lead 6.7 pts
Woolwich Common
Anthony Okereke, Elizabeth Ige
7 May 2026
Labour 41.3% lead 9.7 pts
Woolwich Dockyard
Raja Zeeshan, Asli Mohammed
7 May 2026
Labour 35.5% lead 9.9 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
26 June 2025Shooters HillGreen gain from Labour34.6%
19 December 2024West ThamesmeadLabour hold45.0%
14 November 2024Shooters HillLabour hold
17 October 2024Eltham Town & Avery HillConservative gain from Labour49.0%
13 June 2024Mottingham Coldharbour & New ElthamConservative hold

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Greenwich and Woolwich41%LabourLabour 50%
Eltham and Chislehurst30%LabourLabour 39%
Erith and Thamesmead29%LabourLabour 45%

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 Greenwich

289,063 residents in 114,054 households

Voted Leave in 2016
44% 8 below GB
Degree or higher
46% 12 above GB
No qualifications
17% 1 below GB
Own their home
41% 20 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
31% 14 above GB
Rent privately
26% 6 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
37% 6 above GB
Aged 65 and over
13% 9 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.