Council profile

Hackney

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 57 seats in 21 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Hackney has a directly elected Green mayor. The Greens hold 42 of the 57 council seats. The council has 57 councillors in 21 wards. Seats by party: Green 42, Labour 9, Conservative 6. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Green mayor
57 seats - 29 for a majority
9
6
42
Labour 9Conservative 6Green 42
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
Green42.6%42
Labour31.1%9
Conservative9.9%6
Other6.4%0
Reform5.1%0
Lib Dem4.9%0

2026 election results for Hackney, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 57 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Green 42
majority of 27; 29 needed
Closest result
Green won the last seat by 5 votes over Conservative, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Green hold, 25 June 2026 (10 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
22%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BrownswoodCazenoveClissoldDalstonDe BeauvoirHackney CentralHackney DownsHackney WickHaggerstonHomertonHoxton East & ShoreditchHoxton WestKing's ParkLea BridgeLondon FieldsShacklewellSpringfieldStamford Hill WestStoke NewingtonVictoriaWoodberry Down
LabourConservativeGreen

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
Brownswood
Soraya Adejare, Florence Schechter
7 May 2026
Green 48.9% lead 12.7 pts
Cazenove
Charie Lawrie, Ian Sharer, Emma Neath
7 May 2026
Green 29.6% lead 1.0 pts
Clissold
Rachel Maguire, George Sheldon Grün, Sam Mathys
7 May 2026
Green 41.4% lead 12.2 pts
Dalston
Manal Massalha, Rachel Nkiessu-Guifo
7 May 2026
Green 60.3% lead 31.3 pts
De Beauvoir
Paul Anderson, Gemma Per-Bo
7 May 2026
Green 42.0% lead 5.0 pts
Hackney Central
Pascale Frazer-Carroll, Izzy Castello-Cortes, Noah Birksted-Breen
7 May 2026
Green 46.9% lead 17.4 pts
Hackney Downs
Dylan Law, Laura-Louise Fairley, Alastair Binnie-Lubbock
7 May 2026
Green 60.2% lead 32.7 pts
Hackney Wick
Tyrone Scott, Aaron Briddon, Jam Anker
7 May 2026
Green 46.7% lead 9.2 pts
Haggerston
Charlene Concepcion, Siobhan MacMahon, Nisa Sharif
7 May 2026
Green 43.4% lead 7.5 pts
Homerton
Robert Chapman, Zoe Holman, Anna Lynch
7 May 2026
Green 40.6% lead 10.4 pts
Hoxton East & Shoreditch
Mihai Chereji, Janet Lee, Kam Adams
7 May 2026
Labour 41.4% lead 3.6 pts
Hoxton West
Jas Crowe, Nicholas Blincoe, Ben Lucas
7 May 2026
Green 36.2% lead 0.2 pts
King's Park
Abi Kingston, Emmanuel Onapa, Jasmine O’Connor
7 May 2026
Green 50.8% lead 15.0 pts
Lea Bridge
Sally Zlotowitz, Bettina Maidment, Antoinette Fernandez
7 May 2026
Green 57.1% lead 27.0 pts
London Fields
Kwame Otiende, Brenda Puech, Anntoinette Bramble
7 May 2026
Green 32.0% lead 0.3 pts
Shacklewell
Ülgen Semerci, Cathy Troupp
7 May 2026
Green 52.3% lead 17.5 pts
Springfield
Simche Steinberger, Shau Krautwirt, Michael Levy
7 May 2026
Conservative 51.3% lead 27.2 pts
Stamford Hill West
Hershy Lisser, Benzion Papier
7 May 2026
Conservative 48.9% lead 29.1 pts
Stoke Newington
Jacob Cable, Ifhat Shaheen, Reiner Tegtmeyer
7 May 2026
Green 51.2% lead 15.2 pts
Victoria
Rolf Dekker, Daniel Rea, Joanna Sumner
7 May 2026
Green 37.0% lead 7.0 pts
Woodberry Down
Sarah Young, Florence Davies
7 May 2026
Labour 40.2% lead 1.5 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
25 June 2026DalstonGreen hold57.7%
25 June 2026Hackney CentralGreen hold45.3%
12 September 2024Stoke NewingtonGreen gain from Labour53.0%
12 September 2024London FieldsLabour hold54.1%
4 July 2024CazenoveLabour hold37.4%
27 June 2024Hoxton WestLabour hold
2 May 2024De BeauvoirLabour hold46.7%
2 May 2024Hoxton East & ShoreditchLabour hold59.2%
18 January 2024CazenoveConservative gain from Labour53.8%
7 July 2022De BeauvoirLabour hold

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Hackney North and Stoke Newington45%LabourLabour 52%
Hackney South and Shoreditch42%LabourLabour 55%
Tottenham9%LabourLabour 46%
Islington South and Finsbury4%LabourLabour 51%

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 Hackney

259,151 residents in 106,074 households

Voted Leave in 2016
22% 30 below GB
Degree or higher
52% 18 above GB
No qualifications
17% 1 below GB
Own their home
25% 36 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
40% 23 above GB
Rent privately
32% 12 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
45% 14 above GB
Aged 65 and over
10% 12 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.