2022 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election

2022 Kingston upon Thames Council election
All 48 council seats
	Results of the 2022 Kingston upon Thames council election. Liberal Democrats in yellow, Conservatives in blue and the KIRG in pink.
Incumbent council control; ; Liberal Democrats	; ;

The 2022 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect all 48 members of Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

The Liberal Democrats retained overall majority control of the council, the fifth time in the last six elections that the party has won overall control.

Background

History

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.^[1]

Since its formation, Kingston upon Thames has been under Liberal Democrat control, Conservative control and no overall control. The Liberal Democrats have controlled the council since 2002, apart from the period between 2014 and 2018 when the Conservatives had an overall majority. The Liberal Democrats regained control in the most recent election in 2018, where they won 39 seats with 51.7% of the vote and the Conservatives won the remaining nine seats with 30.6% of the vote. The Labour Party lost both seats they were defending and received 11.9% of the vote across the borough.^[2]

Council term

A Liberal Democrat councillor, Sharon Falchikov-Sumner, left her party in 2018 after the council voted to close their last residential care home. She joined the Green Party in February 2019.^[3] In March 2020, the council leader Liz Green was successfully challenged by Caroline Kerr, a Liberal Democrat councillor who was first elected in 2018.^[4] A Liberal Democrat councillor for Chessington South, Tricia Bamford, resigned in December 2020 due to a change in her family circumstances.^[5] A by-election to replace her was not held until 6 May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The by-election, which was contested by thirteen Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidates, was won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew MacKinlay.^[6] Mackinlay had previously served as the Labour MP for Thurrock.^[7] In September 2021, the Liberal Democrat councillor Jon Tolley left his party due to policy disagreements with the council executive.^[8] He announced that he wouldn't contest the next election, saying "I think we were lying to the public" about the demolition of a leisure centre in his ward.^[9] Kerr announced her resignation as council leader in October 2021.^[10]

As with most London boroughs, Kingston upon Thames was electing its councillors under new boundaries decided by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, which it produced after a period of consultation. The number of councillors remained at 48, but the commission produced new boundaries following a period of consultation, with ten three-member wards and nine two-member wards.^[11]

Electoral process

Kingston upon Thames, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. The election took 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 were entitled to vote in the election. People who lived at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities.^[12] Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 7:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.^[12]

Previous council composition

Council composition after the 2018 election
Council composition ahead of the 2022 election

After 2018 election			Before 2022 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Liberal Democrats	39		Liberal Democrats	37
	Conservative	9		Conservative	8
				Green	1
				Independent	2

Results summary

2022 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Liberal Democrats	44	5	0	5	91.1	47.9	60,732	-3.8
Conservative	3	0	6	6	6.7	25.4	32,179	-5.2
KIRG	1	1	0	1	2.2	5.7	7,221	+3.4
Labour	0	0	0	0	0.0	12.7	16,123	+0.8
Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	7.6	9,622	+4.3
Monster Raving Loony	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.4	474	+0.3
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	213	+0.1
Women's Equality	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	212	New
Liberal	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	97	New

Ward Results

Since elections were fought on new boundaries, vote share can't be directly compared with the 2018 results. Candidates marked * were sitting councillors at the time of election.

Alexandra

Alexandra (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Maurice Herlinger	991	44.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Manders	976	43.5
	Conservative	Andy Rowe	754	33.6
	Conservative	Simon Richard George Illsley	735	32.8
	Labour	Lizzie Hensman	255	11.4
	Green	Kate Worley	231	10.3
	Green	Des Kay	213	9.5
	Labour	Alexander James Lock	195	8.7
Total votes			4,350
Turnout			2,244	50.9
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Berrylands

Berrylands (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Jackie Davies	1,340	51.4
	Liberal Democrats	Anita Margaret Schaper *	1,232	47.3
	Conservative	Claire Harding	752	28.9
	Conservative	Jagie Rai	679	26.1
	Labour	Johnnie Byrne	279	10.7
	Green	Philip Smith	271	10.4
	Labour	Lawrence Roy Green	245	9.4
	Green	Peter Anthony Whitworth	188	7.2
	Liberal	Carole Ann	97	3.7
Total votes			5,083
Turnout			2,606	54.5
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Canbury Gardens

Canbury Gardens (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	James Noel Manthel	1,191	46.8
	Liberal Democrats	Noel Walter Hadjimichael	1,173	46.1
	Conservative	Maria Jane Netley*	767	30.1
	Conservative	Martin Pike	692	27.2
	Green	Fiona Campbell	395	15.5
	Green	Linda Sawyer	262	10.3
	Labour	Chris Priest	243	9.6
	Labour	Bilal Ashraf Chohan	236	9.3
Total votes			4,959
Turnout			2,544	46.4
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Chessington South & Malden Rushett

Chessington South and Malden Rushett (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Andreas Kirsch *	1,453	49.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sharukh Mirza	1,353	46.1
	Liberal Democrats	Griseldis Kirsch	1,335	45.5
	Conservative	Sue Towner	1,087	37.1
	Conservative	Harry James Woods	997	34.0
	Conservative	Bushra Tariq Aziz	869	29.6
	Labour	Clare Siobhan Keogh	349	11.9
	Labour	Mawell Oliver Freedman	339	11.6
	Labour	Alexander Stuart Nelson	292	10.0
	Monster Raving Loony	Director of Undertaking Brunskill	90	3.1
	Monster Raving Loony	Joe Lucky Guv	65	2.2
	Monster Raving Loony	A.Gent Chinners	61	2.1
	Monster Raving Loony	Captain Coiley	47	1.6
Total votes			8,337
Turnout			2,932	40.4
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Coombe Hill

Coombe Hill (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rowena Bass *	960	48.4
	Conservative	Ian George *	875	44.1
	Liberal Democrats	Kim Natasha Bailey *	678	34.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jason James Pethers	587	29.6
	Labour	Dave Cooper	240	12.1
	Labour	Anthony Michael Murray	199	10.0
	KIRG	Kerry Giles	154	7.8
	KIRG	Adrian King	139	7.0
Total votes			3,832
Turnout			1,984	38.5
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Coombe Vale

Coombe Vale (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew James Crawford Bolton	1,624	44.1
	Liberal Democrats	Kamala Kugan	1,612	43.7
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Sillett	1,475	40.0
	Conservative	Cathy Adams	1,213	32.9
	Conservative	Roy Sanjeev Arora *	1,163	31.6
	Conservative	Itret Latif	955	25.9
	Green	John Grant	675	18.3
	Labour	Liz Meerabeau	532	14.4
	KIRG	David James Giles	504	13.7
	Labour	Ian Alexander Parker	431	11.7
	Labour	Gareth Brian Thomas	379	10.3
Total votes			10,563
Turnout			3,686	50.5
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Green Lane & St James

Green Lane and St James (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Cobbett *	888	39.8
	KIRG	James Giles	853	38.2
	Liberal Democrats	Simon John May Edwards *	845	37.8
	KIRG	Yvonne Tracey	757	33.9
	Conservative	David Ian Condry	288	12.9
	Labour	Gerry Jones	253	11.3
	Conservative	Suniya Qureshi	240	10.7
	Labour	Gary Alan See	216	9.7
Total votes			4,340
Turnout			2233	48.1
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	KIRG win (new seat)

Hook & Chessington North

Hook and Chessington North (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Steph Archer *	1,750	54.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Ansari	1,627	50.4
	Liberal Democrats	Afy Afilaka	1,566	48.5
	Conservative	Adam Paul Stannard	909	28.1
	Conservative	Gia Borg-Darcy	908	28.1
	Conservative	Romana Chohan	874	27.1
	Labour	Christine Wynne Thompson	472	14.6
	Labour	Paul Robert John Mitchell	447	13.8
	Labour	Clive Simmons	423	13.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Lady Dave	121	3.7
	Monster Raving Loony	Colonel Cramps	90	2.8
Total votes			9,187
Turnout			3,230	41.2
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

King George's & Sunray

King George's and Sunray (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Beynon *	813	48.3
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Rachel Grocott	784	46.6
	Conservative	Mihaela McKendrick	566	33.7
	Conservative	Stephen John Cherry	536	31.9
	Labour	Nicholas Gregory Draper	272	16.2
	Labour	Claire Johns-Perring	269	16.0
Total votes			3,240
Turnout			1,682	40.1
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Kingston Gate

Kingston Gate (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Owen	1,614	45.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sabah Hamed	1,504	42.5
	Liberal Democrats	Farshid Sadr-Hashemi	1,315	37.1
	Conservative	Andy Bickerstaff	771	21.8
	Conservative	George William Callaghan	723	20.4
	Conservative	Jamila Bibi	650	18.4
	Green	Jennifer Child	606	17.1
	KIRG	Helen Hinton	596	16.8
	KIRG	Deepa Veneik	442	12.5
	Labour	Sally Richardson	412	11.6
	Labour	James Dominic Leather	381	10.8
	Green	Alison Gomez-Russell	373	10.5
	Green	Paul Wright	309	8.7
	Labour	Ashley Zhang-Borges	290	8.2
	Independent	Caroline Shah	213	6.0
Total votes			10,199
Turnout			3,542	47.9
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Kingston Town

Kingston Town (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Mark Hayes	1,243	43.6
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Nardelli	1,243	43.6
	Liberal Democrats	John Nicholas Sweeney *	1,104	38.7
	Labour	Kezia Elizabeth Coleman	625	21.9
	Labour	Charles St John Bamford	556	19.5
	Conservative	Steve Kent	501	17.6
	Conservative	Richard John Paton	485	17.0
	Labour	Martin Christopher Ellis	480	16.8
	Conservative	Colin Anthony Terence Suckling	436	15.3
	Green	Fiona Johnson	370	13.0
	KIRG	Georgina Lydia Anne Hinton	294	10.3
	Green	Jamie Brilley	293	10.3
	KIRG	Bob Tyler	284	10.0
	KIRG	Phil Doyle	281	9.8
	Green	John Johnson	185	6.5
Total votes			8,380
Turnout			2,854	41.9
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Motspur Park & Old Malden East

Motspur Park and Old Malden East (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Lynn Isabell Henderson	1,132	46.0
	Liberal Democrats	Richard John Thorpe	1,009	41.0
	Conservative	Terry Paton	906	36.8
	Conservative	Rob Smith	822	33.4
	Labour	Alice Catherine Campbell	352	14.3
	Labour	Amina Rasool	259	10.5
	Green	Stuart James Newton	222	9.0
Total votes			4,702
Turnout			2,461	46.9
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

New Malden Village

Election was postponed due to the death of Mary Jean Clark^[13]

New Malden Village (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Durrant *	1,217	42.5
	Liberal Democrats	Dongsung Kim	1,184	41.3
	Liberal Democrats	Lesley Anne Heap *	1,182	41.2
	Green	Lucy Howard	867	30.3
	KIRG	Richard Hebborn	724	25.3
	KIRG	Marc Tracey	703	24.5
	Conservative	Paul Ashworth Bedforth	467	16.3
	Labour	Pat Dobson	436	15.2
	Labour	Sean Paul Casey	429	15.0
	Labour	Stephen Dunkling	374	13.0
	Conservative	Philip Cockle	372	13.0
	Conservative	Saad Hindosh	327	11.4
Total votes
Turnout			2,866	42.7
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Norbiton

Norbiton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Emily Davey *	1,541	51.7
	Liberal Democrats	Olly Wehring *	1,495	50.1
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Skipwith	1,258	42.2
	Labour	Marcela Veronica Benedetti	904	30.3
	Labour	Alex Benn-Amir	719	24.1
	Labour	Laurie South	712	23.9
	Conservative	Charlotte Karis Gray	375	12.6
	Conservative	Alexander Williams	366	12.3
	Conservative	Sandira Bye Beekoo	348	11.7
	Green	Martin Hall	239	8.0
	Green	Charlie Redman	225	7.5
	KIRG	Valerie Jenner	197	6.6
	Green	Tony Mark Robinson	163	5.5
Total votes			8.542
Turnout			2,983	43.1
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Old Malden

Old Malden (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Park	1,162	48.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Massimi	1,093	45.7
	Conservative	Kevin John Davis *	880	36.8
	Conservative	Jason Robert Hughes *	802	33.6
	Labour	Grace Victoria Bollins	263	11.0
	Labour	Emma Keeley Francis	244	10.2
	Green	Pauline Howard	175	7.3
Total votes			4,619
Turnout			2,390	48.4
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

St Mark's & Seething Wells

St. Mark's and Seething Wells (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Shard Green *	1,830	46.2
	Liberal Democrats	Diane White *	1,726	43.6
	Liberal Democrats	Yogan Yoganathan *	1,669	42.1
	Green	Sharron Sumner *	1,351	34.1
	Green	Tariq Shabbeer	992	25.0
	Green	Hubert Kwisthout	925	23.3
	Conservative	Cameron John William Davis	526	13.3
	Conservative	Calum John Paton	472	11.9
	Conservative	Ian Alistair Wilson	467	11.8
	Labour	Naomi Louise Bamford-Hurrell	463	11.7
	Labour	Charlie Deacon	360	9.1
	Labour	Conor Alexander Bollins	349	8.8
	Women's Equality	Deborah Anne Young Olszewski	212	5.3
	KIRG	Leslie Ian Jones	210	5.3
Total votes			11,552
Turnout			3,963	46.4
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Sharron Sumner was elected in 2018 in Alexandra ward as a Liberal Democrat, but resigned from the council in early 2022.

Surbiton Hill

Surbiton Hill (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Holt *	1,810	53.4
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Reeve	1,629	48.1
	Liberal Democrats	Amir Ali Khan	1,596	47.1
	Conservative	Caroline Bowis	679	20.0
	Conservative	Andrew Innes	642	19.0
	Conservative	Richard John Hudson	535	15.8
	Labour	Simon Bevis Ayre	382	11.3
	Green	Anna Katherine Burlingsby	370	10.9
	Labour	Greta Lynne Farian	338	10.0
	Labour	Rebecca Claire Way	333	9.8
	Green	Claire Louise Burlingsby	310	9.4
	Green	Patrick Lewis Goodacre	291	8.9
	KIRG	Glen Colegate	285	8.7
	KIRG	Hayley Smithers	225	6.8
	KIRG	Mo Rajput	181	5.5
Total votes			9,606
Turnout			3,287	42.2
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Tolworth

Tolworth (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Mariana Goncalves	2,047	59.5
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew John Wooldridge	2,002	58.2
	Liberal Democrats	Thay Thayalan *	1,998	58.1
	Conservative	Jemima Lucy Katherine	608	17.7
	Labour	Anthony John Banks	592	17.2
	Conservative	Julian Stewart Harvey Bedale	571	16.6
	Labour	Praveen Kumar Kolluguri	484	14.1
	Labour	Benjamin Joseph Gillmore Kerkham	479	13.9
	Conservative	Amia Akter Tania	475	13.8
	KIRG	Kelv Foote	392	11.4
Total votes			9,648
Turnout			3,440	44.3
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Tudor

Tudor (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Hall	1,321	45.5
	Conservative	Jamal Chohan	1,167	40.2
	Conservative	Ben Mallett	1,153	39.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Smith	1,098	37.8
	Green	David Horgan	387	13.3
	Labour	Mark Stephen Garland	234	8.1
	Labour	Frank William Wingate	206	7.1
Total votes			5,566
Turnout			2,904	56.0
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

2022–2026 by-elections

Green Lane & St James

Green Lane & St James, 10th November 2022
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KIRG	Yvonne Tracey	855	46.3	+9.2
	Liberal Democrats	Mahmood Rafiq	647	35.1	−4.9
	Labour	Nick Draper	265	14.4	+3.6
	Conservative	Suniya Qureshi	78	4.2	−7.9
Turnout			1,845	40.0
	KIRG gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	7.0%

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