Council profile

Lewisham

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 54 seats in 19 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Lewisham has a directly elected Green mayor. The Greens hold 40 of the 54 council seats. The council has 54 councillors in 19 wards. Seats by party: Green 40, Labour 14. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Green mayor
54 seats - 28 for a majority
14
40
Labour 14Green 40
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (54 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Green41.9%40
Labour33.2%14
Lib Dem8.8%0
Reform8.3%0
Conservative6.3%0
Other1.6%0

2026 election results for Lewisham, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 54 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Green 40
majority of 26; 28 needed
Closest result
Labour won the last seat by 3 votes over another Labour candidate, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Green hold, 18 June 2026 (4 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
30%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BellinghamBlackheathBrockleyCatford SouthCrofton ParkDeptfordDownhamEvelynForest HillGrove ParkHither GreenLadywellLee GreenLewisham CentralNew Cross GatePerry ValeRushey GreenSydenhamTelegraph Hill
LabourGreen

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
Bellingham
Gavin Moore, Nadja Penfold
7 May 2026
Labour 36.4% lead 6.5 pts
Blackheath
Tracey Martin, Rebecca Jones, Pauline Dall
7 May 2026
Green 33.5% lead 4.7 pts
Brockley
Rotimi Skyers, Ade Adewunmi, El Fry
7 May 2026
Green 51.4% lead 17.6 pts
Catford South
Oliver Matejka, Eva Stamirowski, Briony Edwards
7 May 2026
Green 31.7% lead 1.0 pts
Crofton Park
Esther Lie, Natalie Thomas, Aaron Regisford
7 May 2026
Green 52.3% lead 21.7 pts
Deptford
Heather Farnworth, Daniel Jenkins, Hau-Yu Tam
7 May 2026
Green 48.0% lead 15.8 pts
Downham
Andre Bourne, Gloria Lambert-Morris, Oana Olaru-Holmes
7 May 2026
Labour 33.7% lead 7.9 pts
Evelyn
Rudi Schmidt, Leni Candan, Dylan Cooper-Stubbs
7 May 2026
Green 38.9% lead 7.6 pts
Forest Hill
Annabelle Roberts, Peter Bernards, Fergus Navaratnam-Blair
7 May 2026
Green 44.7% lead 12.3 pts
Grove Park
Samantha Gower, Hilary Moore, Suzannah Clarke
7 May 2026
Labour 34.0% lead 5.8 pts
Hither Green
Yemisi Anifowose, Kim Powell, Eleonora Aiello
7 May 2026
Labour 38.8% lead 2.1 pts
Ladywell
Shireen Asaw, Robin McGhee, Ed Sutton
7 May 2026
Green 53.4% lead 21.7 pts
Lee Green
Laura Sessions, Ese Erheriene, James Rathbone
7 May 2026
Labour 33.3% lead 1.2 pts
Lewisham Central
Hibaaq Aden, Mark Kowalski
7 May 2026
Green 41.3% lead 5.1 pts
New Cross Gate
Wellington Gil, Ruth Persian
7 May 2026
Green 45.9% lead 12.0 pts
Perry Vale
Maria McKenna, Mike Podmore, Justin Cheadle
7 May 2026
Green 46.9% lead 14.4 pts
Rushey Green
Daniel Dream, Samantha Gardiner, Claire Wills
7 May 2026
Green 45.8% lead 11.1 pts
Sydenham
Markus Michelucci, Corin Ashwell, Tanya Dunne
7 May 2026
Green 41.3% lead 6.4 pts
Telegraph Hill
Nick Torry, Kate Anderson, Becky Sanders
7 May 2026
Green 52.8% lead 18.5 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

4 by-elections since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
18 June 2026Crofton ParkGreen hold44.9%
4 July 2024BlackheathLabour hold44.0%
2 May 2024DeptfordLabour hold66.0%
17 November 2023DeptfordLabour hold71.0%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Lewisham East39%LabourLabour 48%
Lewisham North38%LabourLabour 53%
Lewisham West and East Dulwich23%LabourLabour 56%

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 Lewisham

300,547 residents in 122,384 households

Voted Leave in 2016
30% 22 below GB
Degree or higher
50% 16 above GB
No qualifications
15% 3 below GB
Own their home
42% 19 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
29% 12 above GB
Rent privately
27% 7 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
38% 7 above GB
Aged 65 and over
12% 10 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.