Council profile

Merton

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 57 seats in 20 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

Labour have a majority on Merton Council. The council has 57 councillors in 20 wards. Seats by party: Labour 32, Lib Dem 19, Conservative 4, Other 2. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Labour (Majority)
57 seats - 29 for a majority
32
4
19
2
Labour 32Conservative 4Lib Dem 19Other 2
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
Labour28.8%32
Lib Dem26.4%19
Green16.7%0
Conservative14.6%4
Reform10.8%0
Other2.7%2

2026 election results for Merton, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 57 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Labour 32
majority of 7; 29 needed
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 26 votes over Lib Dem, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Labour hold, 4 July 2024 (2 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
37%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

AbbeyCannon HillColliers WoodCricket GreenFigge's MarshGraveneyHillsideLavender FieldsLongthorntonLower MordenMerton ParkPollards HillRavensburyRaynes ParkSt HelierVillageWandleWest BarnesWimbledon ParkWimbledon Town & Dundonald
LabourConservativeLib 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
Abbey
John Braithwaite, Klaar Dresselaers, Barry Smith
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.7% lead 16.0 pts
Cannon Hill
Robert Mitchell, Richard Poole, Asif Ashraf
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 32.4% lead 8.0 pts
Colliers Wood
Joanna Sieradzinska, Caroline Cooper-Marbiah, Stuart Neaverson
7 May 2026
Labour 42.2% lead 20.0 pts
Cricket Green
Usaama Kaweesa, Gill Manly, Michael Butcher
7 May 2026
Labour 48.1% lead 31.2 pts
Figge's Marsh
Dan Johnston, Franca Ofeimu, Agatha Akyigyina
7 May 2026
Labour 55.3% lead 37.6 pts
Graveney
Linda Kirby, Billy Hayes, Devina Paul
7 May 2026
Labour 51.0% lead 27.1 pts
Hillside
Sarah Golby, Daniel Holden
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.7% lead 8.0 pts
Lavender Fields
Harry Platts, Slawek Szczepanski, Edith Macauley
7 May 2026
Labour 42.4% lead 21.8 pts
Longthornton
Brenda Fraser, Ross Garrod, Sonia Phillips
7 May 2026
Labour 50.9% lead 31.0 pts
Lower Morden
Daniel Shearer, Dan Hogan, Sally Kenny
7 May 2026
Labour 33.8% lead 10.9 pts
Merton Park
Edward Foley, Stephen Mercer
7 May 2026
Merton Park Ward Independent Residents 53.8% lead 41.4 pts
Pollards Hill
Ryan Rodrigues, Joan Henry, Martin Whelton
7 May 2026
Labour 52.2% lead 32.4 pts
Ravensbury
Peter McCabe, Stephen Alambritis, Val Hoppichler
7 May 2026
Labour 38.5% lead 14.7 pts
Raynes Park
Chessie Flack, Matthew Willis, Victoria Wilson
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.2% lead 30.0 pts
St Helier
Andrew Judge, Shuile Syeda, Nedra Daniel
7 May 2026
Labour 37.4% lead 8.8 pts
Village
Jan Comer, Will Orson, Max Austin
7 May 2026
Conservative 42.5% lead 9.2 pts
Wandle
Sebastian Budner, Eleanor Stringer
7 May 2026
Labour 38.4% lead 5.6 pts
West Barnes
Mariam Hakim, Robert Page, Hina Bokhari
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 43.2% lead 27.4 pts
Wimbledon Park
Jil Hall, Tony Reiss, Nick Thomas
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 48.9% lead 31.5 pts
Wimbledon Town & Dundonald
Simon McGrath, Samantha MacArthur, Anthony Fairclough
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.6% lead 34.7 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
4 July 2024Figge's MarshLabour hold66.1%
4 July 2024St HelierLabour hold47.9%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Mitcham and Morden56%LabourLabour 46%
Wimbledon44%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 Merton

215,185 residents in 81,714 households

Voted Leave in 2016
37% 15 below GB
Degree or higher
50% 16 above GB
No qualifications
14% 4 below GB
Own their home
56% 5 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
14% 3 below GB
Rent privately
29% 9 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
33% 2 above GB
Aged 65 and over
16% 6 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.