Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, 2014

Map of the results of the 2014 Tower Hamlets council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Tower Hamlets First in light red.

Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council took place on 22 May 2014, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections, the election of the directly-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, and the European Parliament elections. Voting in Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.

As of 2013 the composition of the Borough Council was 27 Labour councillors, fourteen independent councillors, seven Conservative councillors, 2 Respect councillors, and a single Liberal Democrat councillor.^[1]

Reduction in council size

The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 reduced the size of the Council and created new electoral wards.^[2]

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England began the process of changing the size of Tower Hamlets Council in 2012.^[3] The new wards for the elections in 2014 are as follows.

Electoral wards in Tower Hamlets, 2014
Ward	Number of councillors
Bethnal Green	3
Blackwall and Cubitt Town	3
Bow East	3
Bow West	2
Bromley North	2
Bromley South	2
Canary Wharf	2
Island Gardens	2
Lansbury	3
Limehouse	1
Mile End	3
Poplar	1
Shadwell	2
Spitalfields and Banglatown	2
St Dunstan's	2
St Katharine's and Wapping	2
St Peter's	3
Stepney Green	2
Weavers	2
Whitechapel	3

Results

Mayor

Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election 22 May 2014 (result since declared void by an election court) ^[4]

Party

Candidate

1st Round

2nd Round

Total

First Round Votes Transfer Votes

Tower Hamlets First

Lutfur Rahman

36,539

43.38%

856

37,395

Labour

John Biggs

27,643

32.82%

6,500

34,143

Conservative

Christopher Wilford

7,173

8.52%

UKIP

Nicholas M^cQueen

4,819

5.72%

Green

Chris Smith

4,699

5.72%

Liberal Democrat

Reetendra Banerji

1,959

2.33%

TUSC

Hugo Pierre

871

1.03%

Independent

Reza Choudhury

205

0.24%

Independent

Mohammed Khan

164

0.19%

Independent

Hafiz Kadir

162

0.19%

Rejected ballots

2,306

Turnout

86,540

47.58

Registered electors

181,871

Void election result

Swing

Council

Party	Seats won	Percentage of votes
Labour Party	22	38.92
Tower Hamlets First	18	35.40
Conservative Party	5	11.29
Others	0	14.39
postponed election	3	-
Total	45	100
Source: Tower Hamlets Council

References

↑ Council and Democracy London Borough of Tower Hamlets
↑ Order Legislation.gov
↑ Tower Hamlets FER LGBCE
↑ "Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets Council. Retrieved 24 May 2014.

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See also: European Parliament election

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