Council profile

Sutton

Data through 26 October 2026

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

Liberal Democrats have a majority on Sutton Council. The council has 55 councillors in 20 wards. Seats by party: Lib Dem 51, Reform 2, Other 1, Labour 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Liberal Democrats (Majority)
55 seats - 28 for a majority
2
1
51
1
Reform 2Labour 1Lib Dem 51Other 1
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
Lib Dem42.3%51
Reform19.2%2
Conservative16.4%0
Green10.7%0
Labour6.3%1
Other5.1%1

2026 election results for Sutton, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 55 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Lib Dem 51
majority of 47; 28 needed
Closest result
Reform won the last seat by 4 votes over Lib Dem, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Lib Dem hold, 22 May 2025 (3 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
54%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BeddingtonBelmontCarshalton CentralCarshalton South & ClockhouseCheamHackbridgeNorth CheamSouth Beddington & RoundshawSt Helier EastSt Helier WestStonecotSutton CentralSutton NorthSutton SouthSutton West & East CheamThe WrytheWallington NorthWallington SouthWorcester Park NorthWorcester Park South
Lib DemReform

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
Beddington
Rob Leah, Nick Mattey, Sue Ebanks
7 May 2026
Independent 20.2% lead 1.5 pts
Belmont
Rashi Barsaiyan, Chandra Alapati, Joseph Barkham
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 44.6% lead 17.7 pts
Carshalton Central
Andrew Jenner, Jake Short, Isabel Araujo
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.7% lead 34.0 pts
Carshalton South & Clockhouse
Noor Sumun, Lisa Webster, Pete Chubb
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 43.4% lead 14.5 pts
Cheam
Stephen Kingdom, Melody Thorpe, Shimino Jesudas
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 41.2% lead 11.8 pts
Hackbridge
Tom Foster, Dave Tchil
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 33.2% lead 3.8 pts
North Cheam
Naveen Samrat, Jason Stone, James Appleby
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 39.8% lead 15.8 pts
South Beddington & Roundshaw
Edward Joyce, Sunil Kumar, Judy Walsh
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.9% lead 21.1 pts
St Helier East
Paul Cole, Gemma Munday
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 40.6% lead 11.4 pts
St Helier West
Janey Gould, Joicy Joseph, Alison Long
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 30.6% lead 0.5 pts
Stonecot
Rob Beck, Cumar Sahathevan
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 48.0% lead 26.4 pts
Sutton Central
Richard Choi, Cryss Mennaceur, Ed Parsley
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.0% lead 23.9 pts
Sutton North
Sam Cumber, Yusuf El-Razzak, Vanessa McCain
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 45.5% lead 24.4 pts
Sutton South
Asif Hirani, Richard Clifton, Trish Fivey
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 48.7% lead 27.8 pts
Sutton West & East Cheam
Christopher Woolmer, Qasim Esak, Louise Phelan
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 50.2% lead 33.1 pts
The Wrythe
Ian Simpson, Colin Stears, Rukhsar Askari
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 42.4% lead 17.9 pts
Wallington North
Sunita Gordon, Barry Lewis, Aaron Goater
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.8% lead 24.1 pts
Wallington South
Sam Martin, Muhammad Sadiq, Jayne McCoy
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 49.5% lead 32.0 pts
Worcester Park North
Jo Elgarf, Israel Owoade
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 42.1% lead 21.5 pts
Worcester Park South
Jenna Hartley-Smith, Luni Sabharwal
7 May 2026
Lib Dem 46.6% lead 24.4 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
22 May 2025Carshalton South & ClockhouseLib Dem hold52.2%
10 April 2025Sutton CentralLib Dem hold55.7%
2 May 2024St Helier WestConservative gain from Labour35.4%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Carshalton and Wallington50%Lib DemLib Dem 35%
Sutton and Cheam50%Lib DemLib Dem 37%

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 Sutton

209,653 residents in 82,349 households

Voted Leave in 2016
54% 2 above GB
Degree or higher
40% 6 above GB
No qualifications
15% 3 below GB
Own their home
64% 3 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
14% 3 below GB
Rent privately
20% same as GB
Aged 15 to 34
29% 2 below GB
Aged 65 and over
19% 3 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.