{"id":574280,"date":"2026-05-09T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:28:09","slug":"green-party-take-huge-gains-in-london-as-labour-vote-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574280\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party take huge gains in London as Labour vote sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hemorrhage of Labour votes has left Newham, Barnet, Southwark, Brent, Enfield and Wandsworth councils under no overall control by any party. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haringey &#8211; also under no overall control &#8211; was one seat short of being taken by the Green Party, with the Greens taking 28 wards and Labour losing 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the biggest upsets was Hackney, where Labour lost 41 seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westminster returned to Conservative control after the only single Labour term in its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour retained Ealing, Barking &amp; Dagenham, Greenwich, Islington, Hammersmith &amp; Fulham, Camden and Hounslow councils, despite making losses in each where the Green Party made gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Sadiq said many people who voted Labour in the last general election felt &#8220;angry, disappointed and let down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re still waiting for the full picture, but there&#8217;s no doubt that these election results are bitterly disappointing for Labour in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These results speak to a far-reaching disillusionment and fracturing in our politics, which cannot be downplayed, spun or dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Labour has lost votes in London to a variety of different parties, but the biggest change has been Labour voters switching to the Greens,&#8221; the mayor added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hemorrhage of Labour votes has left Newham, Barnet, Southwark, Brent, Enfield and Wandsworth councils under no overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-574280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}