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In the 2026 Croydon London Borough Council election, on 7 May 2026, all 70 members of Croydon London Borough Council, and the Mayor of Croydon, will be up for election. The elections will take place alongside the local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. Jason Perry of the Conservative Party will be defending the mayoralty.
In the previous election in 2022, the Labour Party lost its control of the council, winning 34 out of the 70 seats with the Conservative Party forming a minority administration with the Executive Mayor and 33 councillors for a total of 34 seats.
Background
[edit]History
[edit]The thirty-two London boroughs were established in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. They are the principal authorities in Greater London and have responsibilities including education, housing, planning, highways, social services, libraries, recreation, waste, environmental health and revenue collection. Some of the powers are shared with the Greater London Authority, which also manages passenger transport, police and fire.[1]
Since its formation, Croydon has variously been under Labour control, no overall control and Conservative control. Councillors have usually been elected only from the Labour and Conservative parties, with the most recent exceptions being the election of a single Liberal Democrat councillor in the 1998 and 2002 elections, and two Green councillors and one Liberal Democrat in 2022. The council had an overall Labour majority from the 2014 election, in which Labour won forty seats while the Conservatives won thirty until the 2022 election when Labour lost seven seats to fall to thirty four, while the conservatives gained four councillors and the mayoralty. The Council is under no overall control, and led by a minority Conservative administration. Croydon Council has had 70 seats since the 1978 Council election, with 36 seats required for a majority. New election boundaries were put in place for the 2018 election, and used again in the 2022 election. The incumbent Mayor of Croydon is Jason Perry, a Conservative, who was first elected in 2022.
Electoral process
[edit]Croydon, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. The election took place by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, while in multi-member constituencies election took place by Plurality block voting. Each ward is represented by one, two or three councillors. Electors will have as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, and those with the most votes in each ward will be elected.
In this election, only 1 seat will be elected through FPTP which is Park Hill & Whitgift, while the remaining 69 seats were elected through Plurality block voting.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in London aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities.[2] Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.[2]
Previous council composition
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Council composition after the 2022 election -
Council composition ahead of the 2026 election
| After 2022 election | Before 2026 election | ||||
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| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| Labour | 41 | Labour | 40 | ||
| Conservative | 29 | Conservative | 29 | ||
| Green | 2 | Green | 2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | Liberal Democrats | 1 | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "The essential guide to London local government | London Councils". London Councils. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ a b "How the elections work | London Councils". London Councils. Retrieved 14 September 2021.