The 2022 Barnet London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022, alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. All 63 members of Barnet London Borough Council were elected. The Labour Party took overall control, winning 41 of the seats to the Conservative Party's 22. This was the first time Labour had won the council outright; previously, the Conservatives had always won the most seats, usually with an overall majority.

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2022 Barnet London Borough Council election

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All 63 council seats
First party Second party   Leader Barry Rawlings Daniel Thomas Party Labour Conservative Leader's seat Friern Barnet Finchley Church End Last election 25 seats, 39.0% 38 seats, 44.5% Seats won 41 22 Seat change 16 16 Popular vote 46,070 37,608 Percentage 43.0% 35.1% Swing 4.0% 9.4%
Map of the results of the 2022 Barnet London Borough council election. Labour in red and Conservatives in blue.
Council control before election Conservative Subsequent council control Labour

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In the previous election in 2018, the Conservative Party maintained its longstanding control of the council, winning 38 out of the 63 seats with the Labour Party forming the council opposition with the remaining 25 seats. The 2022 election took place under new election boundaries, but the number of councillors remaining at 63.

Barnet had been the top target council for Labour to win in London in 2014 and 2018; in neither time was the party successful. It was again mooted as a potential gain for the party in 2022, with the Conservative peer Robert Hayward saying that his party risked losing control of it in the wake of the partygate scandal.^[16] Jewish News reported that Labour hoped to do well in the election, possibly winning control of the council, saying that the election "will give the community the chance to offer a clear sign of how impressed they are with Starmer’s efforts to kick the antisemites out".^[17] The Evening Standard reported that 15% of residents in the borough were estimated to be Jewish.^[18] Nick Bowes, the chief executive of the Centre for London, wrote that the result "will reveal how successfully Keir Starmer has shaken off Jeremy Corbyn’s toxic legacy on antisemitism".^[19] Labour launched their London local election campaign in High Barnet.^[20]

Transport for London's plans to build housing on some station car parks were considered a potential issue in the election.^[16] The Conservative councillor Helene Richman defected to the Liberal Democrats in April 2022. She said "the Conservatives are letting inequality rise and living standards drop. They have given up on communities like ours". The Conservative council leader Daniel Thomas said there had been complaints about her conduct.^[21]

Labour and the Conservatives were standing a full slate of 63 candidates, the Liberal Democrats were standing 46 candidates in 18 wards, the Greens were standing one candidate in each of the 24 wards, four independents were standing in three wards, the Women's Equality Party are standing four candidates in four wards and Rejoin EU were standing three candidates in three wards.

Barnet, as with London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years, with the previous election having taken place in 2018. The election took place by multi-member Plurality block 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. There are fifteen wards with three councillors and nine with two councillors.

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 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.^[22] 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.^[22]

• Council composition following the 2018 election
• Council composition ahead of the 2022 election
• Council composition following the 2022 election

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Barnet Local Election Result 2022^[23]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	41	10	0	16	65.1	43.0	46,070	+4.0
	Conservative	22	0	10	16	34.9	35.1	37,608	−9.4
	Green	0	0	0		0.0	9.9	10,570	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0		0.0	9.4	10,028	+0.2
	Independent	0	0	0		0.0	1.1	1,213	+0.7
	Women's Equality	0	0	0		0.0	1.1	1,159	+0.6
	Rejoin EU	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	465	+0.4

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Note: Votes and percentages are based on the top candidate for each party in each ward.

Ward results are as provided by Barnet Council.^[24] Provisional turnout for the whole borough was 97,480, 37.9%.^[25] Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).