Final result (after 28 wards declared):
Lab 30 (-4), Cons 28 (-5), Grn 7 (+5), LibDem 2 (+1), Oth* 1, Ref 2 (+2)
Ellie Sandover, niece of Labour PM Keir Starmer, elected to council for Bensham Manor ward- Mark Adderley, suspended by the Green Party after Labour minister Steve Reed’s complaints, is nevertheless elected to council in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood
- Labour shadow cabinet member Chris Clark loses his town centre seat to Greens
- LibDems take control of new East Surrey Council
- Reform wins first Croydon Council seats in New Addington South
- First results in just after 11am – Labour gain from Conservatives and Croydon’s laziest councillor
- In Lambeth, Greens look set to take control of MP Steve Reed’s old council
- Croydon is now run by its directly elected Mayor, with Conservative Jason Perry returned yesterday for a second four-year term. Today, the count at the Fairfield Halls will determine who the 70 councillors will be that join him at the Town Hall until 2030
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6pm: It’s a wrap
All the results are now in.
The council website has a dedicated page which lists all the results and voting here. Although they might cause some confusion by listing “Labour” and “Labour and Co-operative” parties as separate groups. And they have included Mark Adderley with the Green tally, although he is currently suspended by his party.
Click through on the name of whatever ward you’re interested in for the full vote scores.
They will show, with the election of Jack Barwell, son of Conservative peer Gavin Barwell, in Selsdon Vale and Foresdale, that it is not only Labour that has nepobabies as councillors in Croydon.
Our thanks to all members of a large team of citizen journalists, but especially to Ken Towl and Gabriel MacArthur, who provided copy, notes and pics from the count over the course of two long days.
5.30pm: Instant reactions
There were various reactions to the results today, which have delivered the most fragmented council chamber in the 61 years since Croydon Council was formed.
One member of Perry’s Tory gang told our reporter, Gabriel MacArthur: “I’m quite surprised that the results have gone off in lots of different directions, very different from what I was expecting.” Even though this was exactly the kind of splintered, five-way split that pollsters had been predicting for the past six months.
“It was so bad for us in the New Addington wards.” The Conservatives lost three seats there, two to Reform, one to Labour.
“I was surprised by how well the Green Party did, compared with what we were expecting from our data.” Clearly, Conservative data was wrong.
Former MP Andrew Pelling, an elder statesman of Croydon politics, who this week was contesting his 15th council election since 1982 (see 2pm update below), on this occasion for the Liberal Democrats, said, “It will be interesting to see whether the two main parties allow the three new groups to participate in the council.
Baron Barwell’s boy: the Selsdon Vale and Forestdale count took longer than most to confirm two Tory councillors, including newcomer Jack Barwell
“In reality the mayoral system does give all the power to the Mayor.
“I would be interested to see if, with the limited powers the councillors do have, whether they’ll vote down the budget or the Croydon plan. They have the votes, but it probably won’t happen.
“Croydon has a very long history of a two-party council. Probably one of the strongest red-blue duopolies in London, and it’s been substantially fragmented.
“It’s obviously also a very good day for the Greens, though there will be challenges for them in that their elected councillor in Upper Norwood is suspended from their party.”
And Coulsdon resident Ben Taylor, who was elected for the first time, for Labour in Thornton Heath, said, “We’re really sad to see our colleagues lose seats, but considering the tide across London, we’re really happy to see such strong results.”
Which probably qualifies as “fair comment”, though the council results only served to emphasise what a source close to Rowenna Davis, Labour’s losing mayoral candidate, told Inside Croydon this morning: “The vote on the left split more than the vote on the right.”
5pm: The final countdown
For the second local elections in succession, Croydon Council encountered problems with its venue booking for the count. Fairfield Halls security started ejecting people from the venue on the dot of 5pm. “They were quite blunt about it,” said one attendee.
Perhaps they needed to make way for some darts, or professional wrestling, in the council-owned arts centre?
Still, there was quite a sting in the tail with the final few results, with the Greens winning another two seats from Labour, in South Norwood.
Long-time activist Tracey Hague and Martyn Post will both take seats in the Town Hall Chamber, as Green candidates finished first, third and fourth, and Labour big-shot Christopher Herman, an unimpressive member of the council shadow cabinet, and Stella Nabukeera both lose out.
This was the council seat where two mayoral candidates chose to try to be elected as councillors: Ben Goldstone of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition got 85 votes and Michael Pusey, the Taking the Piss Party, fared a little better, with 388 – about one-third of the numbers required to get elected.
4.40pm: Keir Starmer’s niece Ellie Sandover gets elected
Nepobaby: Ellie Sandover (third from left, in red jacket) is officially declared a Labour councillor. Uncle Keir must be so proud!
Ellie Sandover, the 20something niece of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has been elected to Croydon Council to represent Bensham Manor ward.
In a week which has seen almost 1,500 Labour councillors lose their town hall seats in a bloodbath which owes much to the PM’s unpopularity, Starmer must be delighted to see a family member start off in representative politics in a safe Labour ward which, until recently, was represented by two black women who his party blocked from standing.
Labour’s newest celebrity councillor (anyone remember The Hon Emily Benn? No, thought not…) refused to speak to Inside Croydon’s reporter at the count.
So a good start to her four-year term.
4.35pm: Latest scoreboard
The finish is in sight. But there’s more shocks to come…
4.30pm: Kenley, Norbury’s wards and Coulsdon Town
Coulsdon Town, another Reform “target” well missed. One of their candidates here, Anna Hills, has links with far-right Britain First and attends rallies organised by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Then people of Coulsdon rejected her.
LibDem mayoral candidate Richard Howard had hopes of breaking through here, but the Greens again performed better here than Labour, the Liberal Democrats or Reform. Just not well enough to supplant the three Conservatives returned, including Ian Parker.
Kenley was where Reform fielded one of their more oddball candidates, David Booth, the source of the false theories about covid vaccinations causing cancer in the royals. Looks like his campaign could have done with a bit of a jab: he got just 631 votes, as the sitting Conservative councillors, Gayle Gander and cabinet member Ola Kolade were comfortable winners.
Norbury and Pollards Hill’s result is a safe Labour hold, returning the chair of scrutiny, Leila Ben-Hassel, and a return to the council of John Wentworth, a Newman Numpty (so much for Rowenna Davis’s claim of clearing them all out of the Labour group) and a close associate of MP Steve Reed.
4.05pm: Purley and Woodcote is no change
Three Tories elected, including newcomer James Hillam, who has already a well-deserved reputation as a liar on some of the nastier social media sites. So he should fit in well with Perry’s gang.
4pm: Greens win seat in Woodside ward from Labour
Woodside, once the home ward of the architects of Croydon Council’s bankruptcy, Labour’s Tony Newman and Paul Scott, has seen the Greens win their fifth (well, six really, if you include Mark Adderley (see 2.15pm below)) council seat, tripling the number of councillors from 2022.
Labour’s Jess Hammersley-Rich thus becomes Jess Hammersley-Poor, and an ex-councillor. The then Jess Rich was the Labour candidate who lost a seat to the Tories in Waddon in 2022.
This was the ward with the biggest number of candidates – 18.
Amy Foster – who works as an aide to MP Natasha Irons – and Brigitte Graham were elected for Labour, while Laura Bradnam becomes Croydon’s fifth, or sixth, Green councillor.
3.30pm: Reform councillors confirmed after lengthy recount
The scoreboard (3pm, below) makes Croydon’s first Reform councillors appear somewhat lonely and remote down in New Addington South.
But, after a recount that took several hours (see 11.30am below), Holman and Kellett have been confirmed. There was no change in the 22-vote margin between former Conservative Kellett and the now former Conservative councillor Lara Fish.
But there’s a feel that that is as far as the Reform insurgence will go in Croydon this time round.
3pm: Halfway in the declarations
The council officials cannot cope with the nuances of the Greens having a candidate elected while suspended, so they have added Mark Adderley to the Green tally.
2.30pm: Results coming in a rush now
Reform’s first councillors, Holman and Kellett in New Addington South, now confirmed following a recount.
Elected at last: Coulsdon resident Ben Taylor (third from left) has finally been elected, in Thornton Heath
Elsewhere, Simon Fox, the Tory councillor in Waddon who works in MP Chris Philp’s office, has lost his council seat.
And Gill Hickson wins the LibDems’ second seat, a gain from the Tories in Old Coulsdon.
Rowenna Davis, Labour’s beaten mayoral candidate, was re-elected in her home ward.
In Thornton Heath, Coulsdon resident Ben Taylor (see 12.30pm below) finally managed to win an election, as Labour’s three new candidates were all returned. The Greens ran them close, though.
Labour’s target ward of South Croydon saw them getting closer than in previous years, but the Conservatives safely returned three councillors, including the chair of the planning committee, Michael Neal. Greens, too, polled well here.
In Sanderstead, the Tory deputy mayor Lynne Hale, cabinet member Yvette Hopley and Helen Redfern were all returned, and all managed to get more than 3,000 votes each, unusually high in local elections, but a clue to where Jason Perry’s voting strength lay.
2.15pm: Suspended Green Mark Adderley elected in Crystal Palace
And they did: Mark Adderley has been elected as a Croydon councillor, while suspended by the Green Party
A bad day for “Friend of Israel” Steve Reed (see Lambeth coverage at 12.40pm) just got a whole lot worse, after Mark Adderley, a Green candidate in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, just got elected to Croydon Council.
Thing is Adderley, a film and TV producer who is married to actor Nadia Sawahlia, was suspended by the Greens after Reed made public complaints about alleged antisemitism. Adderley roundly rejects such claims.
His suspension from the Green Party, subject to an investigation, came after he had been registered as a local election candidate, so he still appeared on the ballot paper on Thursday.
And more than one thousand people in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, in Labour minister Reed’s own parliamentary constituency, voted for Adderley.
Inside Croydon has confirmed with Green Party officials that Adderley was asked to stay away from the count.
Labour lost two seats in this ward, where Claire Bonham, Croydon’s only Liberal Democrat councillor in 2022, retained her seat.
2pm: Pelling’s latest election
A footnote to the Shirley North result is the 404 votes for former Croydon MP Andrew Pelling, these days standing for the Liberal Democrats, very much as a tokenistic “paper candidate”.
Pelling has been involved in 15 council elections since 1982, when he was elected for the Conservatives.
He was last elected in 2018, when a Labour councillor in Waddon ward, where he was suspended by the Newman Numpties because he dared to speak out about the appalling state of the reckless council’s finances.
1.50pm: Reform fail to take any seats in Shirley South
1.45pm: Tories hold all three seats in Shirley North
This was meant to be one of Reform Ltd’s target seats in Croydon. But they finished hundreds of votes shy of the Conservative incumbents Sue Bennett, Mark Johnson and Richard Chatterjee.
1.40pm: Liberal Democrats to form first East Surrey Council
In neighbouring East Surrey, the new unitary body which is replacing some of the old county and district councils to the south of Croydon, the Liberal Democrats have won a stonking 30-seat majority, 40 seats to the Tories 10, with the Greens on a respectable eight.
East Surrey ought to be perfect territory for Farage’s Reform, yet they managed just five seats.
This is also very bad news for Croydon Tories, such as Mario Creatura, who lives in Banstead. Creatura’s house move – he was hoping to get selected for a safe Surrey Conservative seat – meant he was disqualified for standing for election in Coulsdon Town at this year’s election.
Big shout-out to former Croydon activist, Sasha Khan, the man who took Sutton Council to the High Court over the toxic Beddington incinerator. After four years as a district councillor, Khan is now a county councillor.
1.15pm: Greens sweep Fairfield, as Clark loses seat
Gone: Chris Clark
First big casualty of these elections comes in Fairfield, where Labour shadow cabinet member Chris “Thirsty” Clark,loses his seat to the Greens.
Clark, a union official, was one of the Newman Numpties who somehow still got selected by Labour this year.
Clark failed to even get 1,000 votes, and was beaten into fifth place in this three-seat ward by his own party colleague, Davina Brown.
The Greens have had Ria Patel and Esther Sutton on the council for Fairfield ward since 2022, and they are now joined by Paul Ainscough, himself a former Labour activist and councillor.
1pm: No change in Addiscombe East as Bains holds on
The Addiscombe East Tory-Labour split ward remains the same, with Conservative cabinet member (and failed parliamentary candidate) Jeet Bains surviving for another term. Labour’s Maddie Henson – Mrs Anonyvoter for those who follow such matters – is also re-elected.
Tory defectors to Reform had been thought could undermine Bains’ vote to allow Labour to win the second seat.
In fact, Bains got the most votes in the ward – 1,199 – with the second Labour candidate, Chris Galpin third on 1,114 to Henson’s 1,148. The second Tory candidate, Richard Hoque, got 974.
But that Reform vote has not materialised. Might this be a pattern through the day?
12.45pm: Tories hold both seats in Selsdon and Addington Village
12.40pm: Greens look set to take control of Steve Reed’s Lambeth
It couldn’t happen to a nicer Zionist.
Funded by Israel supporters: Steve Reed OBE
Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North if he can be bothered, which is not often) is about to see his old council fall into the control of the Greens, including Martin Abrams, the Jewish councillor who was suspended by Labour for the heinous crime of voting against the genocide in Gaza.
Abrams also claimed he was bullied by the Labour group at Brixton Town Hall and subjected to antisemetic abuse. Oddly, Labour’s self-appointed Witchhunter General Reed said nothing about that misconduct.
By lunchtime today, the scoreboard at The Oval cricket ground, where Lambeth is holding its count, looks like this:
Greens 22
Labour 13
LibDems 7
There are 21 seats still to declare.
12.30pm: Getting crowded in Fairfield Halls as more attend the count
It has been confirmed that the provisional result for New Addington South is subject to a recount, called for by the Conservatives, whose leading candidate, Lara Fish, was initially 22 votes behind the second Reform candidate, Adam Kellett.
Friday was one election count with eight mayoral candidates and a host of hangers on.
Today is 28 elections counts and more than 200 candidates, and things are getting a little crowded at the Fairfield Halls.
Crowded house: the Concert Hall at the Fairfield Halls is not ideal for an election count, according to one volunteer at the count
It’s the first time in 20 years that Croydon Council has used the council-owned arts venue for the count, which in many ways makes perfect sense: toilets, kitchens, and the Ashcroft Theatre stage for the declarations. But in other respects, not so much.
“It’s very crowded in all parts,” one of the scrutineers, party volunteers there to check that everything is in order.
“Not ideal for candidates and agents to check the counting.”
News from the Thornton Heath count.
This is a ward held by Labour, but for 2026 one of their councillors retired, another was replaced by members in a rare ward selection meeting and the third, Karen Jewett, Croydon’s hardest-working councillor (© Inside Croydon 2026) was blocked from standing by nameless, faceless Labour Party officials in the NEC and at London region.
Early indicators from this ward count are that the Greens are running second here, behind Labour, but our source at the count says, “Lots of split votes in the three-member ward.”
One of the Labour candidates in Thornton Heath this year is Ben Taylor, who has worked as the agent for all of his party’s 70 council candidates, even though Taylor has no experience of actually ever winning an election. Coulsdon resident
Taylor was his party’s parliamentary candidate in Croydon South for the 2024 General Election, but in 2022 when standing for the council, he delivered Labour’s worst result in local elections in the history of Croydon Council.
Midday: Labour 2, Conservative 1, Reform 2
Here’s the council’s official scoreboard, before the New Addington South results have been confirmed.
11.30am: Reform wins first council seats in Croydon
Reform gains: a provisional result suggest Reform has won two council seats in New Addington South
Holding up a sheet with “Provisional result”, a member of council staff reveals that Scott Holman, the Reform candidate who really wanted to be elected in Essex (see 3.40pm update and others in yesterday’s rolling election coverage), got more than 1,000 of his neighbours in New Addington South to vote for him, becoming Farage’s party’s first elected councillor in Croydon. Holman will have to get used to having his photo taken now.
Holman’s running mate in the two-seat ward referred to in council jargon as NAS is former Tory councillor Adam Kellett.
Kellett had 22 votes more than the leading Tory candidate, sitting councillor Lara Fish. We expect a recount might be on its way. It could be a very long day…
Unless the Tories can find another 23 votes from somewhere, which might be a bit fishy, Fish and the generally obnoxious, as well as lazy, Tony Pearson will lose their council allowances. Pearson is probably regretting not jumping into the arms of the Faragists himself now.
Kellett already knows what the work of a councillor entails. Will Holman prove up to the task? Or will he, like so many Reform councillors elected in the past year, prove to be a flake?
11.20am: Park Hill and Whitgift
Conservative hold, on reduced vote share. Green vote up by 9%, to 19.6%. Will be a feature through the day of big vote increase, but not enough to make gains in terms of council seats.
11.15am: New Addington North
Labour gain one council seat from the Conservatives, as Reform split the right-wing vote, and Adele Benson, officially Croydon’s laziest councillor (zero pieces of casework in 2025-2026 as revealed by Inside Croydon) loses her £12,000 per year council allowances.
11am: Now where were we?
Here’s the result of the mayoral election froim yesterday evening.
Jason Perry Cons 35,871 (-7.8%)
Rowenna Davis Labour 34,758 (-4.8%)
Peter Underwood Green 19,404 (+3.9%)
Ben Flook Reform 14,467 (New)
Richard Howard LibDem 7,815 (-5.0%)
Michael Pusey TTIP 2,597
Jose Joseph Ind 1,568
Ben Goldstone TUSC 461
* Figures in brackets relate to vote share comparison from previous local elections in 2022, based on that year’s ward votes
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Looks like the 2026 Toss-car award to Adele Benson was enough to scupper her chances
Or it might be that she was using the NAN councillor page like her own personal Conservative advertising page, so that fewer and fewer people were willing to ask for help there, let alone incur a tongue-lashing from her cohorts (allegedly, of course!), not mentioning her ongoing feud with the Lab councillor.
I daren’t hope that the situation will improve with the 2 Lab councillors and now 2 RFM , for never the twain shall meet, and I suspect that it will be New Addington as a whole that will suffer the most as a result.
Why is Croydon fucking last to do everything? Once again the slowest borough in the UK. Pitiful shambolic fuck-wits all.
Most of London’s councils with Mayors have done the two-day split.
Lambeth, which doesn’t have the excuse of having #ABitLessShit Mayor, is still counting today.
Many authorities are saving money on the count by not having to pay overtime for overnight counts.
28 separate counts with all bar 1 ward electing 2 or 3 councillors.
For each warn multiple thousands of ballot papers with multiple votes all needing checking individually. And people don’t make it easy by using all their votes for the same party but spread them around.
All the time complying with various laws and electoral commission guidance.
It all takes time!
If you think you can do it better I’m sure electoral services would love to hear from you.
Adele Benson should pay her council allowances back. She has robbed Croydon of almost £50,000. What a bone idle cow.
Scott Holman – the racists are on the March – a dark day.
I’m fae edinburgh and sometimes live in Croydon to sit and kids and have met Jasin Perri and i have to say i feel sorry fur youse. He’s a lazy fucker and how the fuck did you vote the toad back in? Gav
Ach, dinna look at me, lad, t’wasn’t me or my kin! 😁
Ah, I see a picture of Steve Reed on your feed. The quintessential “crap MP”
Aye, I switch off the TV every time he appears on Laura K.
I’m so old I can remember being at the Croydon count in 1968, when Labour won only one seat on the Council. This was in New Addington which, at the time, was the nearest there was to a Labour stronghold.
The first piece of good news for Croydon.
The demise of Chris Clark who, despite once chairing the planning committee and lately sitting on it, displayed a fundamental misunderstanding about the process of planning. His ignorant interventions and poorly communicated burblings will not be missed.
One of life’s little self-serving hanger-ons who lacked the awareness to see his own (considerable) ineptitude.
If ONLY … the “demise of Chris Clark” meant that those chairing or sitting on future planning committees will not display “a fundamental misunderstanding” of the planning process …. or will not (and quite regularly) provide “ignorant interventions and poorly communicated burblings”.
Sadly I fear, that is VERY unlikely to be the case.
It looks from the Council’s own website like there are five Green councillors (3 in Fairfield and 2 in Upper Norwood) and two each for the Lib Dems (in Upper Norwood and Coulsdon) and Reform (both in New Addington South).
The rest are split btw the two parties of Croydon’s failed duopoly, but I can’t be bother to total up how many each of them got….
Haha most predicable map I have ever seen:
Poor white: reform
Poor non-white: labour
I-just-care-about-my-garden brigade south of the borough: conservatives
Those living within walking distance of a cinema: green
So predicable, the act of voting almost becomes meaningless.
Society determines voting, voting does not determine society.
You just mapped out your prejudices
I live in Crystal P myself, voted green, and am known to be a cinephile. Never convicted though.
And to answer your question…yes exactly! Most people acted on prejudice, and when the majority of people do so, which they always do, the outcome is as always predictable. My point stands and feels reinforced:)
Pretty offensive post – massively snobbish and possibly racist. Do you really think no one in the north of the borough cares about their garden, if they’re lucky enough to have one?
Glen says it was “so predictable”, yet failed to predict it
So, how will this parties split be reflected in the make -up of the Croydon planning committee? I just know that knob, Clark, has been kicked off. Who else is in and out?
Places will be allocated based on the % of seats the parties have on the council. Though due to the size of the committee not all of the smaller groups may have members on it.
The committee membership will be confirmed at the Councils AGM in a couple of weeks once the parties have decided who will be on the committee. It’s a bit hard to allocate places until you know who the pool of members is!
The council has had five years to update its constitution to reflect the new mayoral system. It needs amending to provide the mechanisms with multi-party politics.
It obviously is not a priority for Tory Mayor Perry. It still hasn’t been delivered.
Having seized power again, Perry isn’t going to share it with anyone else. He barely trusts his own Cabinet of stooges
The law says most committees need to have proportional membership to the number of councillors per group. This includes planning and licensing committee.
Only a very small number of committees – such as the Cabinet – are exempt from that.
You are allowed to think for yourself, Chris.
My predicted 10-seat committee:
Labour 4, Conservative 4, Green 1, and 1 minor-party seat shared/rotated between Lib Dem and Reform.
If you use a strict D’Hondt calculation, it comes out as:
Labour 5, Conservative 4, Green 1.
But for a genuinely cross-party committee, would be:
Lab 4 / Con 4 / Green 1 / Minor party 1.
And whatever split, Labour will Chair the committee.
That’s moi prediction, Chris – I think i’ll be right on this.
I’m telling you what the law says.
And it’s not possible to share a committee seat.
Perhaps at the 2027 AGM the committee composition could change but the proportionality relates to all committees and making changes to one would be reflected in another committee.
In that case, Labour 5, Conservative 4, Green 1.
I stand corrected.
Croydon may be desperately slow at counting a few votes, but there were five councils still to declare results this morning….. Lambeth and then Bradford, who should have finished it yesterday both declared (in that order) mid-afternoon today, followed by Croydon at about 6pm, but Croydon was ahead of the other two boroughs who counted mayoral votes on Friday and their council ones on Saturday…
It looks like Tower Hamlets have now declared at approx 7pm, leaving Lewisham on their own in the naughty corner, still to announce their results !
Some wards in Tower Hamlets had 22 candidates. Numbers like that don’t facilitate a quick count.
Counts take as long as they take depending on the circumstances of each ward.
I guess Steve Reed OBE will be looking for a safe seat for the next election?
Given Reed’s track record, there’s no seat safe enough.