Council profile

Kingston upon Thames

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 48 seats in 19 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Liberal Democrats have a majority on Kingston upon Thames Council. The council has 48 councillors in 19 wards. Seats by party: Lib Dem 44, Other 3, Conservative 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Majority)
48 seats - 25 for a majority
1
44
3
Conservative 1Lib Dem 44Other 3
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election Other +1 Conservative −1
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (48 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Lib Dem42.4%44
Conservative15.2%2
Green13.5%0
Reform12.2%0
Other10.2%2
Labour6.5%0

2026 election results for Kingston upon Thames, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 48 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Lib Dem 44
majority of 40; 25 needed
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 124 votes over Kingston Independent Residents Group, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Lib Dem hold, 4 July 2024 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
38%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AlexandraBerrylandsCanbury GardensChessington South & Malden RushettCoombe HillCoombe ValeGreen Lane & St JamesHook & Chessington NorthKing George's & SunrayKingston GateKingston TownMotspur Park & Old Malden EastNew Malden VillageNorbitonOld MaldenSt Mark's & Seething WellsSurbiton HillTolworthTudor
ConservativeLib DemOther

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
Alexandra
Ian Manders, Amir Khan
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 40.1% lead 22.1 pts
Berrylands
Anita Schaper, Rizwana Malik
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.2% lead 23.2 pts
Canbury Gardens
Nicolai Due-Gundersen, Peter Higgins
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 48.7% lead 32.4 pts
Chessington South & Malden Rushett
Griseldis Kirsch, Sharukh Mirza, Andreas Kirsch
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 47.0% lead 18.3 pts
Coombe Hill
Ian George, Rowena Bass
7 May 2026
Conservative 35.3% lead 9.0 pts
Coombe Vale
Andrew Sillett, Kim Bailey, Brian Austen
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 36.7% lead 20.8 pts
Green Lane & St James
Yvonne Tracey, James Giles
7 May 2026
Kingston Independent Residents Group 42.6% lead 7.3 pts
Hook & Chessington North
Lorraine Dunstone, Joanne Barker, Sue Ansari
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 38.1% lead 15.4 pts
King George's & Sunray
Mark Beynon, Helen Grocott
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.6% lead 21.5 pts
Kingston Gate
Mark Manners, Sarah Wait-Sillett, Stephen Evans
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.1% lead 24.6 pts
Kingston Town
Nicola Nardelli, Sabah Hamed, Roger Hayes
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.3% lead 21.1 pts
Motspur Park & Old Malden East
Wimal Wimalathasan, Callum Morrissey
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 41.3% lead 16.2 pts
New Malden Village
Lesley Heap, Robert Kim, Mark Durrant
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 37.8% lead 12.0 pts
Norbiton
Olly Wehring, Sam Foulder-Hughes, Emily Davey
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 42.0% lead 26.1 pts
Old Malden
Elizabeth Park, Mike Massimi
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 48.8% lead 31.4 pts
St Mark's & Seething Wells
Robert Sadler, Yogan Yoganathan, Helen Milestone
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 47.8% lead 23.2 pts
Surbiton Hill
Tom Reeve, Manish Shukla, Alison Holt
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.5% lead 35.0 pts
Tolworth
Jane Lim, Thay Thayalan, Andrew Wooldridge
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 47.1% lead 32.8 pts
Tudor
Blaise Murphet, Sachin Tulyani
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.4% lead 23.9 pts

Changed party since the election

1 councillor now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
Coombe HillRowena BassConservative 2026Independent

Every council by-election since 2021

2 by-elections since July 2021, 1 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
4 July 2024Hook & Chessington NorthLib Dem hold
10 November 2022Green Lane & St JamesOther gain from Lib Dem46.3%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Kingston and Surbiton67%Lib DemLib Dem 38%
Richmond Park21%Lib DemLib Dem 46%
Wimbledon12%Lib DemLib Dem 39%

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 Kingston upon Thames

168,070 residents in 65,624 households

Voted Leave in 2016
38% 14 below GB
Degree or higher
51% 17 above GB
No qualifications
12% 6 below GB
Own their home
61% same as GB
Rent from a council or housing association
11% 6 below GB
Rent privately
27% 7 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
32% 1 above GB
Aged 65 and over
18% 4 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.