2022 Havering London Borough Council election

2022 Havering Council election

5 May 2022
All 55 council seats
Leader Damian White Ray Morgon Party Conservative Havering Residents Association Last election 25 seats, 37.1% 17 seats, 28.4%   Leader Keith Darvill Jeff Tucker Party Labour Independent Residents Group Last election 5 seats, 20.6% 5 seats, 3.4%
Incumbent council control Conservative

The 2022 Havering London Borough Council election is currently taking place as of 5 May 2022. All 55 members of Havering London Borough Council will be elected. The elections will take place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

In the previous election in 2018, the council remained under no overall control. The Conservatives were the largest party, winning 25 out of the 55 seats with the Havering Residents Association forming the principal opposition with 17 of the remaining seats. The 2022 election will take place under new election boundaries, which will increase the number of councillors to 55.

Background

History

Result of the 2018 borough election

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.

Since its formation, Havering has most often been under no overall control with no single political party holding a majority of its seats. It has also been controlled by the Conservative Party for nineteen years and by the Labour Party for three years. Local elections have seen Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors returned, with the last Liberal Democrat councillor having been elected in 2006. The 2006 election also saw a British National Party candidate elected, and the 2014 election resulted in the election of a UK Independence Party candidate. The authority also has a long history of independent and residents' association candidates winning election, including the Havering Residents Association (HRA).

In the most recent elections in 2018, the Conservatives won 25 seats with 37.1%; the HRA won 17 seats with the one elected Harold Hill Independent Party winning one councillor who joined the HRA's group; and the Labour Party and independent residents won five seats each. The only councillor elected as an independent, Michael Deon-Burton for South Hornchurch, joined the Conservative group later in May 2021 and was named as deputy mayor of the council. The result was the only hung council in Greater London. The Harold Wood Residents Association, independent of the Havering Residents Association, formed a governing agreement with the Conservative Party on the night of the 2018 election. The Conservative councillor Damian White, who had served as deputy leader of the council from 2014 to 2018, was made leader of the council following the election.

Council term

A residents' association councillor for Cranham ward, Clarence Barrett, died in March 2019. A by-election was held to fill his seat in May 2019, which was won by the residents' association candidate Linda van den Hende. In May 2019, a residents' association councillor for Elm Park, Sally Miller, defected to the Conservative Party.

Along with most other London boroughs, Havering was subject to a boundary review ahead of the 2022 election. The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) concluded that the council should have fifty-five councillors, an increase of one, and produced new election boundaries following a period of consultation. The Conservative councillor Bob Perry left his party after revealing he had secretly recorded a Conservative group meeting discussing ways to design election boundaries to be advantageous to them. In response, the LGBCE extended the period of consultation and made changes to planned ward boundaries. A three-member panel including two Conservative councillors and the independent councillor Linda Van der Hende was convened to decide whether to investigate the Conservative group leader, Damian White, over claims he had tried to gerrymander election boundaries for political gain. Reporters and the public were blocked from attending the meeting. The Conservative panel members voted to discard the complaints, against the advice of the council's director of law and governance, on the grounds that they were submitted more than ninety days after the recording had been made, even though they had been submitted shortly after the recording was published.

Campaign

Keith Prince, the member of the London Assembly for the area, announced he was standing as a Conservative candidate in the council election. Carol Perry announced she would stand for the Havering Residents Association in the same ward as the Conservative group leader who her husband Bob Perry had recorded saying that the council chief executive had let him affect the council's submission for new election boundaires so they would be "really politically advantageous".

In March 2022, the council asked all staff to consider voluntary redundancy, aiming to remove 400 staff roles. The trade union Unison and some councillors and local residents criticised the decision, saying that current staffing levels already meant long delays before getting a response from council staff, including one resident who waited three weeks for exposed asbestos to be removed.

Electoral process

Havering, as is the case for all London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years, with the previous election having taken place in 2018. The election will take place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors. Electors will have as many votes as there are councillors to be elected in their ward, with the top two or three being elected.

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. 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.

Previous council composition

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  Council composition following the 2018 election

After 2018 election			Before 2022 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Conservative	25		Conservative	25
	Havering Residents Association	17		Havering Residents Association	17
	Labour	5		Labour	5
	Independent Residents Group	5		Independent Residents Group	5
	Harold Hill Independent	1		Independent	2
	Independent	1

Ward results

Beam Park

Beam Park (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Matthew Christopher Stanton	530
	Labour	Trevor Roland Mckeever	516
	Rainham Independent RA	Ross William Elliot	438
	Rainham Independent RA	Daniel Mark Beal	415
	Conservative	Barry John Oddy	102
	Conservative	Thomas William Strong	82
	Green	Kuan Phillips	30
	Reform UK	Linda Dawn Huxtable	23
Turnout			2,136	30.08%
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Cranham

Cranham (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Upminster & Cranham RA	Gillian Ford	3,107
	Upminster & Cranham RA	John Tyler	2,807
	Upminster & Cranham RA	Philip Lionel Ruck	2,636
	Conservative	Tracey McEvoy	535
	Conservative	Danny Robert Herbert George Weedon	496
	Labour	Kate Louise Darvill	449
	Conservative	Poh Cheong Foong	435
	Labour	David Richard Anthony Dawson	338
	Labour	Jeffery George Stafford	306
	Green	David Hughes	289
	Liberal Democrats	Susanne Elizabeth Brown	121
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Andrew Charles Sait	55
Turnout				40.83%
Majority			1,528
	Upmister & Cranham RA hold		Swing
	Upmister & Cranham RA hold		Swing
	Upmister & Cranham RA hold		Swing

Elm Park

Elm Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Hornchurch RA	Barry Mugglestone	2,971
	Hornchurch RA	Stephanie Jane Nunn	2,934
	Hornchurch RA	Julie Lilian Wilkes	2,827
	Labour	Janet Patricia Davis	769
	Labour	Graham Michael Carr	709
	Labour	Michael Philip Davis	616
	Conservative	Valerie Patricia Best	608
	Conservative	Azza Azharuddin	474
	Conservative	Matej Travnicek	443
	Green	Gerald Leslie Haines	263
Turnout				35.51%
Majority
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing

Emerson Park

Emerson Park (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Havering Residents Association	Laurance Robert  Garrard	1,512
	Havering Residents Association	David Godwin	1,498
	Conservative	Dominic Noel Swan	947
	Conservative	Noshaba Khiljee	835
	Labour	Anil Kumar Gupta	331
	Labour	Michael Anthony McCarthy	331
	Hornchurch and Upminster Independents	Sharon Lynne Heron	104
	Hornchurch and Upminster Independents	Victoria Pamela Hogan	95
	Liberal Democrats	Pamela Ann Coles	64
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Richard Potter	44
Turnout				41.11%
Majority
	Havering Residents Association gain from Conservative		Swing
	Havering Residents Association gain from Conservative		Swing

Gooshays

Gooshays (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Mary Brown	1,038
	Labour	Paul Stephen Lawrence McGeary	1,014
	Labour	Katharine Mary Tumilty	901
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Isabelle Alexander	754
	Conservative	Emilia Weronika Kukielka	721
	Conservative	Gregory Ayodeji Samuel	720
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Grant Edward MacMaster	689
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Monica Puncheon	575
	Conservative	Rashpinder Singh Mahal	568
	Havering Residents Association	Margaret Christine Kershaw	346
	Havering Residents Association	Graham Frank Trew	263
	Green	Katie Joanna Morant	239
Turnout				23.5	-17.5
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Harold Hill Independent		Swing

Hacton

Hacton (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Hornchurch RA	Raymond Paul Morgon	2,315
	Hornchurch RA	Reginald Whitney	2,124
	Conservative	Paul Connew	430
	Conservative	Patrick Oliver Marks	337
	Labour	Susan Ann Jiggens	275
	Labour	Sinead Earley	272
Turnout				41.2	0.3
Majority			1,694
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing

Harold Wood

Harold Wood (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Brian Edward Eagling	2,081
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Martin Robert Goode	1,884
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Darren Christopher Wise	1,812
	Labour	Carole Anne Beth	667
	Labour	Krystyna Helena Koseda	613
	Labour	Sally Omosun Onaiwu	580
	Conservative	Tolulope Akinboboye	566
	Havering Residents Association	Daniel Robert Lammin	484
	Havering Residents Association	Katy Turner	472
	Havering Residents Association	Adela Niamh Meer	430
	Conservative	Ruth Edes	426
	Conservative	Godfrey Joseph Webster	405
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan William Albert Coles	145
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Victor Sanderson	99
Turnout				35.6%
Majority
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA hold		Swing
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA hold		Swing
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA hold		Swing

Havering-atte-Bower

Havering-atte-Bower (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Raymond Alan Best	1,703
	Conservative	John Edward Crowder	1,663
	Conservative	Damian John White	1,504
	Havering Residents Association	Carol Ann Perry	1,157
	Labour	Sanchia Anita Alasia	1,008
	Labour	Benedicta Lashley	977
	Labour	Taimaz Ranjbaran	790
Turnout				29.16%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Heaton

Heaton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mandy Jane Anderson	1,267
	Labour	Keith Ernest Darvill	1,200
	Labour	Frankie Oreoluwa Mary-Ann Walker	1,153
	Conservative	Oluwatoyin Ganiyat Ajidele	775
	Conservative	Edward Andrew Green	645
	Conservative	Richard Rimkus	598
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Martin Glenn	563
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Wendy Brice-Thompson	548
	Harold Wood Hill Park RA	Mary Vivien Bakoulas	463
	Havering Residents Association	Bill Lavender	308
	Havering Residents Association	Lesley Rosina Tyler	292
Turnout				23.79%
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hylands & Harrow Lodge

Hylands & Harrow Lodge (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Hornchurch RA	James Thomas Glass	1,729
	Hornchurch RA	John Charles Wood	1,713
	Conservative	Christine Ivy Rose Smith	1,596
	Conservative	Ciaran John White	1,483
	Conservative	Alexander Marc Donald	1,476
	Labour	Robert Dennis Farnsworth	822
	Labour	Michael Derek Wood	756
	Labour	Mohammad Quamrul Hassan	689
	Green	Amanda Jane Haines	562
	England Constitution	Colin Birch	140
	England Constitution	Jane Diana Birch	125
Turnout				37.83%
Majority
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Marshalls & Rise Park

Marshalls & Rise Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philippa Crowder	2,122
	Conservative	Osman Ali Dervish	1,981
	Conservative	Robby Misir	1,955
	Havering Residents Association	Andrew James Mann	1,440
	Havering Residents Association	Kevin Patrick Barrett	1,432
	Havering Residents Association	Robert Antony Chesney	1,395
	Labour	Siobhan McGeary	547
	Labour	Birendra Singh	497
	Labour	Carol Lesley Singh	488
Turnout				41.13%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mawneys

Mawneys (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jason David Frost	1,627
	Conservative	Dilip Patel	1,595
	Conservative	Carol Margaret Smith	1,467
	Havering Residents Association	Carol Denise Baker	1,095
	Havering Residents Association	Linda Ann Trew	1,045
	Havering Residents Association	Denise Hipson	963
	Labour	Alison De Melo	681
	Labour	Christine Anne McGeary	631
	Labour	Daniel Alan Nichols	587
	Liberal Democrats	Grenville Clark Brown	87
	Liberal Democrats	John Frederick Deeks	86
Turnout				33.56%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Rainham & Wennington

Rainham & Wennington (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Susan Adebayo
	Labour	Simon Maurice Darvill
	Rainham Independent RA	David Warren Durant
	Conservative	Sarah Jane Edwards
	Labour	Mohammed Abdullah Siddique Ibnay Ambia
	Conservative	Jacqueline May McArdle
	Labour	Antonia Osammor
	Conservative	Susan Patricia Ospreay
	Rainham Independent RA	Henry Albert Tebbutt
	Rainham Independent RA	Jeffrey Tucker
Turnout
Majority

Rush Green & Crowlands

Rush Green & Crowlands (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Michael John Benham	1,561
	Conservative	Vidyotama Persaud	1,536
	Conservative	Timothy Paul George Ryan	1,472
	Labour	Angelina Leatherbarrow	1,276
	Labour	John Alex Curtis	1,258
	Labour	Robert Ritchie	1,184
	Havering Residents Association	Gemma Ann Bevan	578
	Havering Residents Association	Ajay Pal Singh	482
	Havering Residents Association	Tracey Amanda Niemierko	466
	Independent	Robert Francis O`Dea	63
Turnout				32.84%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

South Hornchurch

South Hornchurch (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Rainham Independent RA	Natasha Anne Summers	1,023
	Rainham Independent RA	Graham Keith Williamson	1,019
	Labour	Julia Ann Pearman	669
	Labour	Mirza Adeel Akhtar	664
	Conservative	Michael Deon Burton	573
	Conservative	Andromahi Themistocli	500
	Green	Kim Arrowsmith	116
Turnout				31.8%
Majority
	Rainham Independent RA hold		Swing
	Rainham Independent RA hold		Swing

Squirrels Heath

Squirrels Heath (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christine Violet Vickery	2,383
	Conservative	Keith Anthony Prince	2,331
	Conservative	Michael John White	2,295
	Havering Residents Association	Karen Emma Bryan	1,124
	Havering Residents Association	Robert John Perry	967
	Havering Residents Association	Colin Douglas Rushworth	897
	Labour	Mary Vivien Burke	871
	Labour	Nigel Lawrence Meyer	741
	Labour	Christopher William Purnell	714
	Independent	Melvin John Wallace	237
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Patrick Clarke	235
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Naomi Hibbs-Brown	184
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Anthony Stafford	161
Turnout				38.54%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Alban's

St Alban's (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Judith Margaret Holt	939
	Labour	Jane Elizabeth Keane	852
	Conservative	Aaron Alexander Santiago Young	844
	Labour	Hope Liberty Mendy	798
	Havering Residents Association	Kimberley Jane Gould	295
	Havering Residents Association	Ian Swann	240
Turnout				36.84%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Andrew's

St Andrew's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Hornchurch RA	Paul Alan Middleton	2,855
	Hornchurch RA	Gerald Finbar O`Sullivan	2,823
	Hornchurch RA	Bryan Thomas Vincent	2,700
	Conservative	Henry Frost	747
	Conservative	John Christopher Mylod	735
	Conservative	Oliver Harry Rose	702
	Labour	Nicholas Martin Butler	624
	Labour	Joseph Alexander Jervis	534
	Labour	Abdal Miah	471
	Green	Martin Neal Davis	295
Turnout				38.98%
Majority
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA hold		Swing
	Hornchurch RA gain from Conservative		Swing

St Edward's

St Edward's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Mark Chapman	1,108
	Conservative	David Andrew Taylor	1,003
	Conservative	Nisha Dilipkumar Patel	952
	Havering Residents Association	Ann Fiona Kendrick	662
	Havering Residents Association	Alexander Daniel Stilwell	602
	Labour	Alexander Leatherbarrow	594
	Labour	Deborah Williams	589
	Labour	Abiodun Kudirat Adesanya	588
	Havering Residents Association	David Richard Tyler	526
	Green	Karen Kruzycka	210
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Christopher Davies	120
	Liberal Democrats	Kerrie Marie Sait	92
Turnout				32.87%
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Upminster

Upminster (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%