London local election results 2022 live: Latest news on who won council elections - Labour wins Westminster

After another dramatic day, these are the top headlines from the local elections across London:

The Greens are celebrating gaining two seats from Labour in hotly contested wards.

As predicted, Labour held control of Hackney with 50 seats, but a delighted Green Party is celebrating the elections of Zoë Garbett in Dalston and Alastair Binnie-Lubbock in Hackney Downs.

The pair vowed to push the council to act faster on the climate emergency.

Labour has always controlled Hackney since it became a borough council in 1965.

However, the Greens were determined to build on their 2018 showing, when they narrowly failed to gain a seat in Dalston by 21 votes and lost out in Hackney Downs by 90 votes.

Garbett, who also finished second in this this year’s mayoral race, said she was determined to hold the council to account on the climate emergency.

The elated new councillor said: “I’m really excited by some of the ideas I’ve heard from residents and organisations during this campaign.

“I want to hold the Labour administration to account to take more urgent action over the climate emergency, providing social affordable housing that people need, and fundamentally changing the relationship between residents and the council so they are really heard.”

Her fellow Green councillor Binnie-Lubbock, who contested the mayoral election in 2018, said: “I’m exhilarated but I’m very excited to carry on the work representing residents and bringing the voices of people from Hackney Downs to the council.”

Labour candidates have won every seat in Lewisham for a second time, Robert Firth reports.

Labour fought off a Green threat in Brockley to retain all 54 seats across the South London borough – as in 2018.

Labour’s Damien Egan was re-elected mayor with an increased share of the vote.

Mr Egan swept to victory with 58% of the vote – four per cent higher than in the last election in 2018.

Green candidate Nick Humberstone beat Conservative candidate Caroline Attfield into third place.

Mr Humberstone won 16% of the vote, compared to Ms Attfield’s 12%.

At the last mayoral election in 2018 the Conservatives finished second.

Mr Egan thanked Lewisham residents for electing him a second time.

In a statement posted on Twitter, he said: “Thank you for everyone’s support and re-electing me as your mayor. It’s been a big team effort, thank you to everyone who’s given up their time to help. Looking forward to working for everyone in Lewisham! “

In Brockley, where the Greens had hoped to repeat their success in 2014, Labour took all three seats again.

Green candidate Deborah Le Cand-Hardwood, finished in fourth place with 1,153 votes – almost 800 votes less than the nearest Labour candidate.

Following the election success, high on Mr Egan’s priority list will be tackling Lewisham’s growing housing crisis.

The borough has over 10,000 people waiting for a council home.

The local authority built 626 social homes between 2018 and 2022. The properties include both council rent homes and those at London Affordable Rent, which can be more expensive than council rent.

The results mean the Greens have now been without a councillor in Lewisham since 2018 when John Coughlin lost his seat.

The Lib Dems and Conservatives have failed to elect a councillor in the borough for over a decade.

Labour have retained Greenwich Council at the 2022 local elections and almost wiped out the opposition in the process.

The Conservatives’ dismal results saw their leader, Nigel Fletcher, lose his seat as they fell from nine councillors at the last election to only three. Labour increased their majority to 49, also helped by boundary changes.

Fifty-five council seats were being contested among 23 wards, with eight parties and one independent candidate all going for votes.

Victorious Labour claimed 52 seats and the Conservative Party won three. Despite a lot of hope and expectation, the Liberal Democrats and Greens did not win a single seat.

The results represents an overwhelming win for Greenwich Labour, who have been in charge of this borough since 1971. It is also a big step forward from their 2018 result, where the party lost a seat to the Conservatives.

Lutfur Rahman has been re-elected Tower Hamlets mayor, seven years after being removed from the role over electoral corruption.

Rahman was found guilty of corrupt electoral practices in 2015, and banned from standing in elections for five years.

However in his first election back he has comfortably beaten the Labour incumbent John Biggs.

Rahman, from the Aspire Party, was awarded 39,533 votes in the first round, compared to Biggs’ 27,894 ,and narrowly missed out on winning the first round outright.

In the second round, he won 40,805 with Biggs winning 33,487.

This is a seismic story in the capital, with Rahman only declaring he would run weeks before the election.

Read Alastair Lockhart’s full report here.

Disgraced former mayor Lutfur Rahman - who was found guilty of corrupt electoral practices in 2015 - is ahead by more than 10,000 votes, after the first round of voting in for the Tower Hamlets mayoralty.

Rahman - who was banned from standing in elections for five years - was awarded 39,533 votes, and narrowly missed out on winning the first round outright.

Labour’s John Biggs won 27,894 votes, local democracy reporter Alastair Lockhart reports.

The remaining candidates have been eliminated and Biggs and Rahman will now face off in the second round.

Alastair says: “Very hard to see Biggs pulling back a deficit of more than 10,000 votes in the next round.

“Lutfur Rahman’s political comeback seems almost certain now.”

Rahman was found guilty of corrupt electoral practices when elected as Tower Hamlets mayor in a civil finding in 2015.

He was banned from standing in elections until 2022, although he never faced criminal prosecution.

The Liberal Democrats have easily retained control of Kingston upon Thames Council in a victory which has seen them keep or win all 27 seats declared so far – with 21 to go.

Kingston has been a Lib Dem stronghold since the party seized control from the Tories in 201, Charlotte Lillywhite

The borough is home to MP and party leader Ed Davey.

Despite the borough’s sky-high council tax emerging as a key issue threatening the party this year, the Lib Dems have secured a comfortable victory.

The former Tory mayor Councillor Roy Arora even failed to defend his seat in Coombe Vale – now represented by three Lib Dems.

Before today, Kingston had 37 Lib Dem councillors, eight Tories and two independents.

Council tax led the way as the key concern for Londoners ahead of the election, according to survey data published by Centre for London.

But Lib Dem candidates said the cost of living crisis was frequently raised by locals on the doorstep, who “feel let down and taken for granted” by Boris Johnson’s party.

Not so much a Green wall but certainly a Green step in Islington as the party took control of three seats on the council – dethroning a senior Labour councillor in the process.

Caroline Russell is joined by Benali Hamdache and Ernestas Jegorvas-Armstrong in Highbury ward in an upset for the Labour party, Julia Gregory reports.

It means Sue Lukes, the Labour executive member for community safety, and her daughter Minda Burgos-Lukes were foiled in their candidature for the same ward, which came about because of boundary changes.

Overall, Labour has 48 councillors, including in the new Laycock ward, with three Green opponents.

Cllr Russell, pictured, pledged to “work hard to represent Highbury residents in the council chamber and be a constructive opposition”.

The controversial low traffic neighbourhoods became a love-them-or-hate-them issue. Some voters say they cut traffic and air pollution and encourage cycling. Others say they divert traffic and make journeys longer.

The Conservatives promised to scrap LTNs but went unrewarded at the ballot box, failing to win any seats.

The Conservatives clinched a shock victory in Harrow, offering the party a spark of hope on what was a difficult night in London.

The Tories assumed overall control of the council for the first time since 2006. Voters elected 31 Conservatives, edging out Labour, who took 24 seats.

It means the new Tory administration will have a majority of seven. New ward boundaries meant there were just 55 seats up for grabs, eight fewer than in 2018.

Closely fought wards included North Harrow, where long-standing Tory councillors Chris Baxter and Janet Mote won by just a handful of votes.

The Conservatives began celebrating when they managed to win two seats in the previously Labour held Edgware ward. They then stole a further seat in the Labour stronghold of Rayners Lane to give them real belief.

Cllr Paul Osborn, the new leader of Harrow Council, described the result as a “big day for Harrow” and showed the Conservatives “can win in London”.

One of the major trends that appears to be emerging for the London elections is support for active travel policies, such as low-traffic neighbourhoods.

LTNs, which restrict car access to certain roads, to make them safer for cyclists and pedestrians, have come under vociferous and sometimes menacing criticism from opponents.

Previously LondonWorld has reported that anti-LTN camaigners plotted vigilante style justice against councillors which installed the filters in Hackney.

However, one of the main proponents of LTNs in Hackney Philip Glanville has just been reelected as mayor in the east London borough.

And the second-placed candidate, the Green Party’s Zoe Garbett had also committed to LTNs - meaning candidates supporting the active travel schemes took 76% of the vote.

Southwark was another council which installed controversial low-traffic neighbourhoods, however Labour cemented their position in the borough taking three councillors from the Liberal Democrats - who campaigned against the traffic filters in Dulwich Village.

And the mayor’s walking and cycling commissioner, Will Norman, said the election showed support for such active travel schemes.

He said: “I think the election results show that once again that clean air policies, active travel policies, policies that make the city more liveable, a nicer place to be – designing our streets for people rather than necessarily for cars are a vote winner, we’ve seen this time and time again.

“School streets are a brilliant approach to cleaning up the air around schools making it safe on the road so kids can walk, cycle or scoot rather than take the car.”

Labour mayor Rokhsana Fiaz has been re-elected mayor of Newham in the borough’s local elections on May 5, the borough’s BBC local democracy reporter Alaistair Lockhart reports.

The mayor won a second consecutive term in the East London borough with 35,696 votes.

Fiaz eclisped her rivals – gaining more votes than the other six candidates combined with 56.23% of the vote. The results for Newham Council are yet to be announced, but are expected to see a landslide win for Labour.

Turnout in the ballot was unusually low, with just 28.8% of the electorate voting – 10% less than in the last election in 2018.

Fiaz was first elected Newham mayor in 2018, becoming the first directly-elected female mayor in London. Newham is one of the five London boroughs to have a directly-elected mayor, with the first Newham mayor elected in 2002.

Labour’s Robin Wales was the first mayor of the East London borough and won five consecutive terms, serving from 2002 to 2018.

Fiaz successfully challenged Wales for the Labour candidacy in 2018 – after first being elected a councillor in 2014 – and was elected later that year.

As well as our electoral map, which will be updated as the results come in, you can find out the results in your ward with my colleague Daniel McNeil’s comprehensive guide.

In a result which would go against the grain, the Conservatives are starting to believe they could flip Harrow.

Labour have had control of the north-west London council for 11 out of the last 12 years, however the party has only had a small majority.

My colleague Adam Shaw reports: “Could there be an upset on the cards in Harrow in north-west London?

“The Tories have taken two out of three seats in Edgware and have just stolen another in Rayners Lane ‘against all the odds’.

“Labour camp says it’s ‘not going to plan’ at the moment.

“The Conservatives win in North Harrow - by just a handful of votes - to add further intrigue to this election.

“Real belief now that the council could turn blue for the first time since 2006.”

As more results come in, London is looking worse and worse for the Conservatives.

And the map doesn’t tell the whole story, the Tories have now lost their only councillors in Lambeth and have gone from 11 seats to one seat in Richmond.

Sutton was a council they had been targeting, however the Liberal Democrats held strong there.

And Labour has taken three of the Tories biggest London beasts - Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet.

The Conservatives have made some gains in Enfield, which appears to be one of the only areas where the anti-LTN vote has come out.

Counting is underway for the much anticipated Tower Hamlets mayoral election, where Labour’s John Biggs and disgraced former mayor Lutfur Rahman are going head to head.

What looked to be a fairly straightforward mayoral election for Labour became a far more interesting prospect following the announcement that Rahman was standing.

Rahman was found guilty of corrupt electoral practices in a civil finding in 2015, and was banned from standing in elections until 2022, although he never faced criminal prosecution.

The former mayor is hopeful of a political resurgence and, backed by former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, has been tipped to potentially cause an upset at the polls.

But Mr Rahman’s return to Tower Hamlets politics has led to a warning over voter fraud by communities minister Kemi Badenoch, City Hall LDR Joe Talora reports.

The minister wrote to the Met Police and Electoral Commission last month over her concerns.

She said: “We are concerned that fraud could be repeated on May 5 in areas where it has occurred before, places such as Tower Hamlets where there is a particular history.”

The presence of Rabina Khan in the mayoral race – once of Mr Rahman’s Tower Hamlets First party before defecting to the Lib Dems – may however cause issues for the former mayor’s Aspire party. Ms Khan has finished second in the previous two mayoral elections in Tower Hamlets.

Labour has held Islington, with all votes now having been counted.

The party returned 48 councillors, with the Greens continuing their good England-wide record with three councillors.