Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, 2014
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Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council took place on 22 May 2014, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections, the election of the directly-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, and the European Parliament elections. Voting in Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.
As of 2013 the composition of the Borough Council was 27 Labour councillors, fourteen independent councillors, seven Conservative councillors, 2 Respect councillors, and a single Liberal Democrat councillor.[1]
Reduction in council size
The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 reduced the size of the Council and created new electoral wards.[2]
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England began the process of changing the size of Tower Hamlets Council in 2012.[3] The new wards for the elections in 2014 are as follows.
Ward | Number of councillors |
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Bethnal Green | 3 |
Blackwall and Cubitt Town | 3 |
Bow East | 3 |
Bow West | 2 |
Bromley North | 2 |
Bromley South | 2 |
Canary Wharf | 2 |
Island Gardens | 2 |
Lansbury | 3 |
Limehouse | 1 |
Mile End | 3 |
Poplar | 1 |
Shadwell | 2 |
Spitalfields and Banglatown | 2 |
St Dunstan's | 2 |
St Katharine's and Wapping | 2 |
St Peter's | 3 |
Stepney Green | 2 |
Weavers | 2 |
Whitechapel | 3 |
Results
Mayor
Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election 22 May 2014 (result since declared void by an election court) [4] | |||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Round | % | 2nd Round | Total | First Round Votes Transfer Votes | |
Tower Hamlets First | Lutfur Rahman | 36,539 | 43.38% | 856 | 37,395 |
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Labour | John Biggs | 27,643 | 32.82% | 6,500 | 34,143 |
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Conservative | Christopher Wilford | 7,173 | 8.52% |
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UKIP | Nicholas McQueen | 4,819 | 5.72% |
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Green | Chris Smith | 4,699 | 5.72% |
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Liberal Democrat | Reetendra Banerji | 1,959 | 2.33% |
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TUSC | Hugo Pierre | 871 | 1.03% |
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Independent | Reza Choudhury | 205 | 0.24% |
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Independent | Mohammed Khan | 164 | 0.19% |
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Independent | Hafiz Kadir | 162 | 0.19% |
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Rejected ballots | 2,306 | ||||||
Turnout | 86,540 | 47.58 | |||||
Registered electors | 181,871 | ||||||
Void election result | Swing | ||||||
Council
Party | Seats won | Percentage of votes |
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Labour Party | 22 | 38.92 |
Tower Hamlets First | 18 | 35.40 |
Conservative Party | 5 | 11.29 |
Others | 0 | 14.39 |
postponed election | 3 | - |
Total | 45 | 100 |
Source: Tower Hamlets Council |
References
- ↑ Council and Democracy London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- ↑ Order Legislation.gov
- ↑ Tower Hamlets FER LGBCE
- ↑ "Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets Council. Retrieved 24 May 2014.