2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election

2022 Lambeth Council election
← 2018 5 May 2022 2026 →

All 63 council seats
32 seats needed for a majority
Turnout32% (Decrease2%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lib
Scott_Ainslie_(Lambeth_councillor)
Leader Claire Holland Donna Harris Scott Ainslie
and Nicole Griffiths
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 57 seats, 51.7% 0 seats, 12.8% 5 seats,
19.3%
Seats won 58 3 2
Seat change Increase1 Increase3 Decrease3
Popular vote 97,727 20,584 40,052
Percentage 54.1%
Increase2.4%
11.4%
Decrease0.9%
22.2%
Increase4.2%

  Fourth party
 
Leader Tim Briggs
Party Conservative
Last election 1 seat, 12.6%
Seats won 0
Seat change Decrease1
Popular vote 21,408
Percentage 11.9%
Decrease1.7%

Map of the results of the 2022 Lambeth council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in orange.

Council control before election


Labour

Subsequent council control


Labour

The 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of Lambeth London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

In the previous election in 2018, the Labour Party maintained its control of the council, winning 57 out of the 63 seats with the Green Party forming the principal opposition with five of the remaining six seats. The 2022 election took take place under new election boundaries, with the number of councillors remaining the same.

Labour held control of the council, winning 58 seats. The Liberal Democrats overtook the Greens as the second-largest group, winning three seats, becoming the official opposition. It also marked the first time that Liberal Democrat councillors had been elected to the council since 2010. The Conservatives lost its lone seat meaning that for the first time since the Council's founding in 1964, it will have no Conservative Councillors.