Council profile

Wandsworth

Data through 26 October 2026

London borough · London · 58 seats in 22 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 2 May 2030

The Conservatives run Wandsworth Council as a minority administration. The council has 58 councillors in 22 wards. Seats by party: Conservative 29, Labour 28, Other 1. The next election is on 2 May 2030.

Seats by party

Conservative (Minority)
58 seats - 30 for a majority
28
29
1
Labour 28Conservative 29Other 1
Seat changes since the 7 May 2026 election No change since the election.
Vote share at the 7 May 2026 election (58 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Labour32.1%28
Conservative29.9%29
Green18.0%0
Lib Dem9.3%0
Reform6.8%0
Other3.9%1

2026 election results for Wandsworth, ward by ward

Next election
2 May 2030
all 58 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Conservative 29
1 short of the 30 needed for a majority
Closest result
Conservative won the last seat by 15 votes over Labour, 7 May 2026
Latest by-election
Labour hold, 27 August 2026 (4 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
25%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

BalhamBattersea ParkEast PutneyFalconbrookFurzedownLavenderNine ElmsNorthcoteRoehamptonShaftesbury & QueenstownSouth BalhamSouthfieldsSt Mary'sThamesfieldTooting BecTooting BroadwayTrinityWandleWandsworth CommonWandsworth TownWest HillWest Putney
LabourConservativeIndependent

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
Balham
Lynsey Hedges, Jo Rigby, Jonathan Iliff
7 May 2026
Conservative 38.6% lead 2.0 pts
Battersea Park
Claire Davies, Victoria Asante, Tony Belton
7 May 2026
Labour 33.8% lead 1.8 pts
East Putney
Ravi Govindia, Jasmin Glynne, George Crivelli
7 May 2026
Labour 34.7% lead 0.7 pts
Falconbrook
Kate Stock, Simon Hogg
7 May 2026
Labour 43.8% lead 19.7 pts
Furzedown
Samantha Lewis, Leonie Cooper, Judi Gasser
7 May 2026
Labour 47.3% lead 21.7 pts
Lavender
Tom Pridham, Daniel Hamilton
7 May 2026
Conservative 42.4% lead 14.8 pts
Nine Elms
Matthew Corner, Will Sweet
7 May 2026
Conservative 40.8% lead 18.0 pts
Northcote
Aled Richards-Jones, James Craig
7 May 2026
Conservative 50.8% lead 31.0 pts
Roehampton
Jenny Yates, Matthew Tiller, Graeme Henderson
7 May 2026
Labour 36.8% lead 16.0 pts
Shaftesbury & Queenstown
Sara Apps, Aydin Dikerdem, Stephen Worrall
7 May 2026
Labour 40.3% lead 16.7 pts
South Balham
Toby Hopkins, Elizabeth Simos
7 May 2026
Labour 39.8% lead 8.5 pts
Southfields
Guy Humphries, Emmeline Owens
7 May 2026
Conservative 36.3% lead 9.4 pts
St Mary's
Caroline De La Soujeole, Zarah Wiles, Charlie Fisher
7 May 2026
Conservative 34.9% lead 3.1 pts
Thamesfield
Ethan Brooks, Robert Morritt, Salvatore Murtas
7 May 2026
Conservative 34.0% lead 4.5 pts
Tooting Bec
Paul White, Sheila Boswell, Annamarie Critchard
7 May 2026
Labour 41.0% lead 11.9 pts
Tooting Broadway
Rex Osborn, Kemi Akinola, Sean Lawless
7 May 2026
Labour 42.7% lead 8.6 pts
Trinity
Shirin Georgiani,, Kirsten Botting
7 May 2026
Labour 38.7% lead 4.1 pts
Wandle
Denise Paul, Chris Baron
7 May 2026
Labour 35.1% lead 0.5 pts
Wandsworth Common
Angela Graham, Peter Graham, Tom Mytton
7 May 2026
Conservative 41.6% lead 15.9 pts
Wandsworth Town
Noel Dube, Michelle Cook, Sarah Davies
7 May 2026
Labour 37.2% lead 4.0 pts
West Hill
Daniel Ghossain, Malcolm Grimston, Angela Ireland
7 May 2026
Independent 44.7% lead 26.3 pts
West Putney
Melanie Hampton, Shakeel Ahmad, Nick Austin
7 May 2026
Conservative 40.0% lead 15.2 pts

Every council by-election since 2021

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

DateWardResultWinner's share
27 August 2026TrinityLabour hold47.5%
2 May 2024West PutneyConservative gain from Labour45.3%
18 January 2024Tooting BroadwayLabour hold67.3%
14 July 2022Tooting BroadwayLabour hold

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Tooting34%LabourLabour 52%
Putney34%LabourLabour 50%
Battersea32%LabourLabour 49%

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 Wandsworth

327,502 residents in 137,402 households

Voted Leave in 2016
25% 27 below GB
Degree or higher
63% 29 above GB
No qualifications
10% 8 below GB
Own their home
42% 19 below GB
Rent from a council or housing association
19% 2 above GB
Rent privately
36% 16 above GB
Aged 15 to 34
44% 13 above GB
Aged 65 and over
11% 11 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.