Council profile

Havering

Data through 26 October 2026

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

Reform UK have a majority on Havering Council. The council has 55 councillors in 20 wards. Seats by party: Reform 39, Other 14, Labour 2. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Reform UK (Majority)
55 seats - 28 for a majority
39
2
14
Reform 39Labour 2Other 14
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
Reform36.3%39
Other27.3%14
Conservative13.8%0
Labour10.3%2
Green9.9%0
Lib Dem2.3%0

2026 election results for Havering, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 55 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Reform 39
majority of 23; 28 needed
Closest result
Hornchurch Residents Association won the last seat by 13 votes over Reform, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Other hold, 10 August 2023 (1 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
70%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Beam ParkCranhamElm ParkEmerson ParkGooshaysHactonHarold WoodHavering-atte-BowerHeatonHylands & Harrow LodgeMarshalls & Rise ParkMawneysRainham & WenningtonRush Green & CrowlandsSouth HornchurchSquirrels HeathSt Alban'sSt Andrew'sSt Edward'sUpminster
LabourReformOther

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
Beam Park
Trevor McKeever, Matthew Stanton
7 May 2026
Labour 28.5% lead 2.3 pts
Cranham
John Tyler, Lesley Tyler, Gillian Ford
7 May 2026
Upminster and Cranham Residents Association 47.2% lead 15.5 pts
Elm Park
Kimberley Gould, Barry Mugglestone, Stephanie Nunn
7 May 2026
Hornchurch Residents Association 38.5% lead 4.9 pts
Emerson Park
David Johnson, Alex Sibley
7 May 2026
Reform 34.2% lead 5.4 pts
Gooshays
Keith Prince, Liz Tyler, Robert Whitton
7 May 2026
Reform 39.8% lead 24.7 pts
Hacton
Julie Wilkes, Geoff Burgess
7 May 2026
Hornchurch Residents Association 40.1% lead 1.0 pts
Harold Wood
Brian Eagling, Martin Goode, Darren Wise
7 May 2026
Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association 45.9% lead 17.9 pts
Havering-atte-Bower
Graham Edwards, Della Morton, Paul Sullivan
7 May 2026
Reform 47.7% lead 33.8 pts
Heaton
Iurie Bivol, Khuram Amin, Kevin Ayres
7 May 2026
Reform 42.3% lead 24.9 pts
Hylands & Harrow Lodge
Maggie Themistocli, Kevin Gill, Sean McMahon
7 May 2026
Reform 40.1% lead 7.9 pts
Marshalls & Rise Park
Bailey Nash-Gardner, Gary Payne, Robert Benham
7 May 2026
Reform 41.3% lead 21.0 pts
Mawneys
Graham Day, Geoff Starns, Sue Benjamins
7 May 2026
Reform 38.1% lead 5.7 pts
Rainham & Wennington
George Harwin, Joe Lock, Sue Ospreay
7 May 2026
Havering Residents Association 36.9% lead 0.8 pts
Rush Green & Crowlands
Henry Williams, Petru Dinsorean, Alex Donald
7 May 2026
Reform 30.6% lead 5.6 pts
South Hornchurch
Luke Barry, Angelica Ola
7 May 2026
Reform 37.7% lead 13.1 pts
Squirrels Heath
Martynas Cekavicius, Christine Vickery, Tom Vickery
7 May 2026
Reform 38.8% lead 15.0 pts
St Alban's
Diane Smith, Russell Smith
7 May 2026
Reform 29.6% lead 3.2 pts
St Andrew's
Robert Attree, Malvin Brown, Duncan Cowie
7 May 2026
Reform 39.0% lead 4.8 pts
St Edward's
Sathya Maddasani, Terry Brown, Martin Lardner
7 May 2026
Reform 31.9% lead 10.8 pts
Upminster
Christopher Wilkins, Michael Fisher, Oscar Ford
7 May 2026
Upminster and Cranham Residents Association 44.6% lead 13.2 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

1 by-election since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
10 August 2023UpminsterOther hold69.0%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Hornchurch and Upminster41%ConservativeConservative 34%
Romford41%ConservativeConservative 31%
Dagenham and Rainham18%LabourLabour 40%

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 Havering

262,055 residents in 101,328 households

Voted Leave in 2016
70% 18 above GB
Degree or higher
30% 4 below GB
No qualifications
20% 2 above GB
Own their home
70% 9 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
14% 3 below GB
Rent privately
16% 4 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
30% 1 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.