Council profile

Lambeth

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 63 seats in 25 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

The Greens run Lambeth Council as a minority administration. The council has 63 councillors in 25 wards. Seats by party: Green 28, Labour 26, Lib Dem 9. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Green (Minority)
63 seats - 32 for a majority
26
9
28
Labour 26Lib Dem 9Green 28
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election Lib Dem +1 Green −1
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (63 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Green35.0%29
Labour32.8%26
Lib Dem15.4%8
Conservative7.6%0
Reform6.2%0
Other3.0%0

2026 election results for Lambeth, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 63 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Green 28
4 short of the 32 needed for a majority
Closest result
Labour won the last seat by 8 votes over Lib Dem, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Labour hold, 8 October 2026 (8 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
21%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Brixton Acre LaneBrixton NorthBrixton Rush CommonBrixton WindrushClapham Common & AbbevilleClapham EastClapham ParkClapham TownGipsy HillHerne Hill & Loughborough JunctionKenningtonKnight's HillMyatt's FieldsOvalSt Martin'sStockwell EastStockwell West & LarkhallStreatham Common & ValeStreatham Hill EastStreatham Hill West & ThorntonStreatham St Leonard'sStreatham WellsVauxhallWaterloo & South BankWest Dulwich
LabourLib DemGreen

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
Brixton Acre Lane
Michael Chessum, David Bridson, Natalie Kane
7 May 2026
Green 37.5% lead 3.1 pts
Brixton North
Nanda Manley-Browne, Samantha Dorney-Smith, John-Paul Ennis
7 May 2026
Labour 35.6% lead 0.6 pts
Brixton Rush Common
Viktor Westerdahl, Zvikomborero Chihoro, Sacha Takyi-Berko
7 May 2026
Green 44.2% lead 6.7 pts
Brixton Windrush
Carlotta Allum, Serafina Spicer
7 May 2026
Green 44.5% lead 11.0 pts
Clapham Common & Abbeville
Simon Cordon, Chris Nicholson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 38.7% lead 6.3 pts
Clapham East
Erica Abu, Cat Thomson
7 May 2026
Labour 39.1% lead 5.3 pts
Clapham Park
Martin Tiedemann, Michael Ball, Verity McGivern
7 May 2026
Labour 35.8% lead 3.6 pts
Clapham Town
Patrick O'Donnell, Jonathan Bartley, Linda Bray
7 May 2026
Labour 35.0% lead 3.8 pts
Gipsy Hill
Pete Elliott, Chloe Hawryluk
7 May 2026
Green 46.4% lead 11.7 pts
Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction
Paul Valentine, Alan Andrews, Ciara Alleyne
7 May 2026
Green 50.8% lead 18.3 pts
Kennington
David Amos, Dominic Lynch, Joanne Simpson
7 May 2026
Labour 37.4% lead 8.3 pts
Knight's Hill
Matt Wilcock, Elizabeth Fraser, Lisa Schulkind
7 May 2026
Green 42.6% lead 5.0 pts
Myatt's Fields
Patience Clague, Molly Hartill
7 May 2026
Green 39.1% lead 2.7 pts
Oval
Claire Holland, Diogo Costa, Bryn Scott
7 May 2026
Labour 37.4% lead 8.0 pts
St Martin's
Jeremy Isaacs, Georgina Berriman
7 May 2026
Green 35.1% lead 1.5 pts
Stockwell East
Kevin Brown, Tam Langley
7 May 2026
Green 30.4% lead 0.8 pts
Stockwell West & Larkhall
David Oxley, Joe Dharampal-Hornby, Nadia Burrell
7 May 2026
Labour 33.2% lead 4.7 pts
Streatham Common & Vale
Danial Adilypour, Sarah Cole, Dominic Armstrong
7 May 2026
Labour 30.6% lead 3.3 pts
Streatham Hill East
Martin Abrams, Amelia Shoebridge
7 May 2026
Green 40.8% lead 14.6 pts
Streatham Hill West & Thornton
Matthew Bryant, Kita Ogden
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 44.2% lead 22.2 pts
Streatham St Leonard's
Alice Weavers, Alex Davies, Scott Ainslie
7 May 2026
Green 47.5% lead 24.5 pts
Streatham Wells
Judy Best, Simon Bucknall
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 35.3% lead 6.2 pts
Vauxhall
David Ford, Liam Daley, Jacqueline Bond
7 May 2026
Green 31.2% lead 3.5 pts
Waterloo & South Bank
Doug Buist, Ibrahim Dogus
7 May 2026
Labour 31.1% lead 2.3 pts
West Dulwich
Judith Cavanagh, Tom Palmer
7 May 2026
Green 35.6% lead 2.1 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
8 October 2026Myatt's FieldsLabour hold46.7%
9 July 2026Clapham ParkGreen hold43.8%
9 July 2026Streatham St Leonard'sLib Dem gain from Green41.7%
1 May 2025Herne Hill and Loughborough JunctionGreen gain from Labour47.7%
4 July 2024Streatham Common and ValeLabour hold46.8%
2 May 2024Knight's HillLabour hold55.5%
2 May 2024Streatham Common and ValeLabour hold49.3%
5 October 2023VauxhallLabour hold42.0%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Clapham and Brixton Hill33%LabourLabour 52%
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green24%LabourLabour 53%
Dulwich and West Norwood24%LabourLabour 56%
Streatham and Croydon North19%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 Lambeth

317,659 residents in 134,657 households

Voted Leave in 2016
21% 31 below GB
Degree or higher
56% 22 above GB
No qualifications
13% 5 below GB
Own their home
33% 28 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
34% 17 above GB
Rent privately
31% 11 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.