2022_City_of_London_Corporation_election

2022 City of London Corporation election

2022 local election in the City of London

The 2022 City of London Corporation election took place on 24 March 2022 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. The election was postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2022 City of London Corporation election

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24 March 2022

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100 seats to the Court of Common Council
51 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Independent	Temple & Farringdon Together
Last election	85	10
Seats won	78	10
Seat change	7

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Castle Baynard Independents	Labour
Last election	0	5
Seats won	7	5
Seat change	7

Map of results.

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

No overall control

Background

Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years.^[1] In the previous election in 2017, 95 seats were won by independent candidates and the remaining five by the Labour Party.

The election was originally scheduled for 18 March 2021, but was delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

It had been proposed that, due to the pandemic, the elections be combined with the 2021 United Kingdom local elections in the rest of England on 6 May. The City's Policy and Resources Committee recommended against this, and suggested July 2021 as an alternative date should the elections need to be postponed.^[3]^[4]

Electoral system

Most residents of the twenty-five wards of the City of London live in the Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Portsoken and Queenhithe. Residents have one vote each, and businesses have a number of votes that scales with the number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that.^[5]

Councillors are elected by multi-member first-past-the-post.

Campaign

The Russian state-owned VTB Bank, which had been sanctioned by the UK government over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, nonetheless received a share of votes.^[6]

Overall results

The election resulted in Temple and Farringdon Together and the Labour Party winning the same number of seats as they had done in the previous election, with Temple and Farringdon Together on ten seats and Labour on five. The new Castle Baynard Independents won seven seats, with the remaining seats being won by independent candidates. The Women's Equality Party stood candidates but none were successful.^[7] One of the victorious independent candidates was Emily Benn, whose grandfather was the Labour MP Tony Benn.^[8]

More information Party, Seats ...

2022 City of London Corporation election
Party		Seats					Votes
Party		Count	Gains	Losses	Net	Of total (%)	Of total (%)	Count	Change
	Independent	78	2	9	7	78.0	63.0	12,979	9.8
	Temple & Farringdon Together	10	0	0		10.0	13.4	2,752	7.2
	Castle Baynard Independents	7	7	0	7	7.0	7.9	1,633	New
	Labour	5	2	2		5.0	15.4	3,172	8.8
	Women's Equality	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	68	New
Total		100

Ward results

Statements of persons nominated were published on 1 March.^[9] Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).