Lambeth local elections

Lambeth London Borough Council is elected every four years.

1 Political control
2 By-election results
3 Lambeth's recent political history
4 References
5 External links

Political control

Election	Overall control
1964	Labour
1968	Conservative
1971	Labour
1974	Labour
1978	Labour
1982	No overall control
1986	Labour
1990	Labour
1994	No overall control
1998	Labour
2002	No overall control
2006	Labour
2010	Labour

By-election results

Clapham Town By-Election 14 November 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		1,247	41.9
	Conservative		906	30.4
	Liberal Democrat		758	25.5
	Green		46	1.5
	Socialist (GB)		20	0.7
Majority			341	11.5
Turnout			2,977	34.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Vassall By-Election 1 May 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		2,552	55.3	+8.2
	Liberal Democrat		1,338	29.0	-12.4
	Conservative		524	11.4	+1.8
	Green		200	4.3	+4.3
Majority			1,214	26.3
Turnout			4,614	56.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Streatham South By-Election 6 May 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Jonathan Malley	1,515	45.7	-11.0
	Liberal Democrat	Kathleen Ella Ward	996	30.1	+22.3
	Conservative	Joanna Mary Barker	753	22.7	-12.8
	Independent	Andrew Roy Morris	48	1.5	+1.5
Majority			519	15.6
Turnout			3,312	38.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Vassall By-Election 19 August 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daniel Oren Sabbagh	840	48.5	+3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Adeline Aina	618	35.7	-0.3
	Conservative	Anthony John Shakespeare	194	11.2	+4.9
	Green	Peter Crush	55	3.2	-6.0
	Independent	Keith Langton	25	1.4	-1.8
Majority			222	12.8
Turnout			1,732	18.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Knight's Hill By-Election 7 June 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Antony Grayling	2,293	49.2	+5.8
	Liberal Democrat	Joel Edmond Robinson	1,300	27.9	-6.7
	Conservative	Jessica Katherine Lee	788	16.9	+0.1
	Independent	Romano Giuseppe Barca	278	6.0	+6.0
Majority			993	21.3
Turnout			4,659	53.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Thornton By-Election 7 June 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lib (Elizabeth) Peck	1,497	45.0	-1.2
	Liberal Democrat	John Pindar	1,379	41.5	-0.9
	Conservative	Peter Richard Younghusband	448	13.5	+6.8
Majority			118	3.5
Turnout			3,324	53.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Stockwell By-Election 7 August 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Colin Bowyer	1,065	46.4	+13.0
	Liberal Democrat	Rosario (commonly known as "Ros") Munday	1,001	43.6	-8.6
	Conservative	Alistair Stewart Fletcher	133	5.8	+0.2
	Green	Graham Ronald Geoffrey Jones	95	4.1	-4.7
Majority			64	2.8
Turnout			2,294	24.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Streatham South By-Election 20 October 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Bennett	1,466	49.2	+9.1
	Liberal Democrat	Ahmad Ali	1,211	40.7	+6.0
	Conservative	Lisabeth Liell	301	10.1	-8.1
Majority			255	8.5
Turnout			2,978	31.7	+1.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Vassall By-Election 20 March 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Steve Bradley	1,209	50.4	+14.9
	Labour	Andy Flannagan	859	35.8	-8.4
	Conservative	Stuart Barr	206	8.6	-2.8
	Green	George Graham	109	4.5	+4.5
	English Democrats	Janus Polenceus	8	0.3	+0.3
	Independent	Leo Syron	7	0.3	+0.3
Majority			350	14.6
Turnout			2,398	25.9
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing

Prince's Ward By-Election 4 June 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Harrison	1,726	40.7	-9.2
	Liberal Democrat	John Roberts	1,396	32.9	7.4
	Conservative	Michael Poole-Wilson	707	16.7	2.2
	Green	Joseph Healy	320	7.5	0.4
	English Democrats	Janus Polenceus	93	2.2	2.2
Majority			330	7.8	-16.6
Turnout			4,242
	Labour hold		Swing

Tulse Hill Ward By-Election 1 July 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruth Ling	1,235	52.2
	Liberal Democrat	Terence Curtis	745	31.5
	Green	George Graham	256	10.8
	Conservative	Alan Blackburn	94	4.0
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	36	1.5
Majority			490
Turnout			2,366	21.18
	Labour hold		Swing

Lambeth's recent political history

In 1979 the administration of Edward "Red Ted" Knight organised the borough’s first public demonstration against the Thatcher government^[1].

In 1985, the left-wing Labour administration of Ted Knight was subjected to 'rate-capping' with its budget restricted by the Government. Knight and most of the Labour councillors protested by refusing to set any budget. This protest resulted in 32 councillors being ordered to repay to the council the interest the council had lost as a result of budgeting delays, and also being disqualified from office.

1991 saw Joan Twelves’s regime both failed to collect the poll tax and openly opposed the war in the Persian Gulf^[2]. Joan Twelves, and 12 other councillors were subsequently suspended from the labour party’s local group by regional officials for advocating non- payment of the poll tax and other radical ideas in 1992 ^[3].

Joan's equily militant deputy leader in this era was John Harrison^[4].

References

^ http://briandeer.com/kate-hoey.htm
^ http://briandeer.com/kate-hoey.htm
^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-red-teds-loony-lefties-1593657.html
^ www.glatuc.org.uk/news_gn.php

External links

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