2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election

2022 Tower Hamlets Council election
← 2018 5 May 2022 2026 →

All 45 council seats
  First party Second party
 
Leader Lutfur Rahman John Biggs
Party Aspire Labour
Last election 0 seats, 15.4% 42 seats, 46.1%
Seats won 24 19
Seat change Increase 24 Decrease 23
Percentage 36.95% 36.5%
Swing Increase 21.6% Decrease 9.6%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Nathalie Sylvia Bienfait Elliott Weaver
Party Green Conservative
Last election 0 seats, 8.6% 2 seats, 9.9%
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1
Percentage 9% 7.6%
Swing Increase 0.4% Decrease 2.3%

Map showing the results of the 2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election. Aspire in orange, Labour in red, Conservatives in blue and Greens in green.

council control before election


Labour

Subsequent council control


Aspire

The 2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 45 members of Tower Hamlets 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 regained control of the Council from no overall control, winning 42 out of the 45 seats with the Conservative Party as the principal opposition with two of the remaining three seats. The election coincided with an election for the mayor of Tower Hamlets. In the 2022 elections, the Aspire Party gained control of the Council from Labour, winning 24 seats, and also won the mayoralty. Reduced to 19 seats, this is the lowest ever number of seats Labour have ever held in the history of Tower Hamlets; the Conservatives retained one seat, while the Green Party gained one seat.