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2025 City of London Corporation election
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100 seats on Common Council
51 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
  Blank Blank
Party Independent Temple & Farringdon Together
Last election 78 seats, 62.7% 10 seats, 5.3%
Seats before 77 10
Seats won 83 10
Seat change Increase 5 Steady
  Third party Fourth party
  Blank Blank
Party Labour Castle Baynard Independents
Last election 5 seats, 26.3% 7 seats, 4.4%
Seats before 6 7
Seats won 7 0
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 7
Council control before election

No overall control

 Council control after election

No overall control

The 2025 City of London Corporation election was held on 20 March 2025, prior to most other 2025 United Kingdom local elections, to elect Commoners to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.

The City of London is the oldest continuously-running municipal democracy in the world.

Background

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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] At the last election in 2022 (delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic)[2] 78 seats were won by Independents, 5 by Labour, and the remaining 17 by localist groups.[3]

Electoral system

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Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Farringdon Without, Portsoken and Queenhithe are the more resident-populated of the twenty-five City Wards. Residents each have one vote, and businesses are allotted votes scaled in accordance 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.[4]

Common Councillors (aka Commoners) are elected by block voting.

On the day before polling day, in this case the 19 March, wardmote meetings are held in which residents and workers are able to ask candidates questions.[5]

Common Council composition

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Since the 2022 election, six by-elections have been held to replace Commoners who resigned from or died in office.

Two such by-elections were held in 2022, with Independents being elected for both Bridge and Bridge Without and Cordwainer.[6]

Three were held in 2023, when an Independent was elected for Castle Baynard;[6][7] Labour gained a seat on Common Council following the death of an Independent in Cripplegate;[8] and Temple & Farringdon Together returned a Commoner unopposed for Farringdon Without.

The only by-election in 2024 was held on the same day as the general election, when an Independent was elected for Farringdon Within.[9]

Contesting groups and parties

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Groups with prior representation

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Below displays the current affiliation of Commoners on the City Common Council. Political party affiliations are shown. Some independents may align with slates of candidates for their ward. All parties are running candidates in the upcoming election.

Parties Leader(s) Ideology Website Seats Candidates standing
2022 election Prior to the election
Independent N/A N/A N/A
78 / 100
77 / 100
 104
Temple & Farringdon Together Wendy Mead www.templeandfarringdon.com
10 / 100
10 / 100
 10
Castle Baynard Independents John Griffiths www.castle-baynard.org.uk
7 / 100
7 / 100
 8
Labour Party Social democracy www.citylabour.org
5 / 100
6 / 100
 13

Slates

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Temple & Farringdon Together and Castle Baynard Independents are registered political parties, and hence are not included in this section.

The following groups are running a slate of candidates in a particular ward:

Slate Leader(s) Ward Website 2022 Councillors Candidates standing
[10] Bassishaw
1 / 2
 2
#Better
Billingsgate[11] 		Billingsgate
1 / 6
 2
David & Julie David O'Reilly Billingsgate www.davidjulie4billingsgate.com
0 / 6
 2
Bishopsgate Ward Team Simon Duckworth Bishopsgate www.bishopsgate.london/team
4 / 6
 6
Ward of Bread Street Emily Benn Bread Street www.breadstreet.org
2 / 2
 2
[12] Bridge
1 / 2
 2
Iceni[13] Martha Grekos Castle Baynard www.castlebaynardiceni.org
0 / 8
 8
Ward of Cheap Team Robert Hughes-Penney Cheap www.wardofcheap.city
3 / 3
 3
Coleman Street Ward Dawn Wright Coleman Street www.colemanstreetward.org
1 / 4
 4
Cordwainer Ward Team Cordwainer
2 / 3
 3
Team Dowgate Henry Pollard Dowgate www.teamdowgate.org
2 / 2
 2
Farringdon Within Ward candidates Farringdon Within www.farringdonwithin.com
1 / 8
 2
Langbourn Team Langbourn www.langbourn.london
2 / 3
 2
Team[14] Portsoken
3 / 4
 4
Tower Ward Team Tower www.jamestumbridge.com
4 / 4
 4
Vote Hodgson Jaspreet Hodgson Vintry www.hodgson.city
1 / 2
 2
Team Walbrook James Thomson Walbrook www.jamesthomson.london
2 / 2
 2

Results summary

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Prior to the election being held, 45 of the 100 councillors were elected uncontested across 14 wards,[15][5] with some wards seeing candidates pull out.

2022 City of London Corporation election[16]
Party Seats Votes
Count Gains Losses Net Of total (%) Of total (%) Count Change
  Independent 83 7 2 Increase 5 83.0
  Labour 7 2 0 Increase 2 7.0
  Temple & Farringdon Together 10 0 0 Steady 10.0
  Castle Baynard Independents 0 0 7 Decrease 7 0.0
Total 100

Results by ward

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Asterisks denote incumbents. The results are compared to the 2022 elections.

Aldersgate

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Aldersgate (6 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Fentiman* 399
Labour Stephen Goodman* 375
Labour Sandra Jenner 369
Independent Deborah Oliver* 346
Independent Annet Rideg* 292
Independent Naresh Sonpar* 291
Independent Iain Meek 163
Turnout 38%
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Aldgate

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Aldgate (5 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Lesley Cole –
Independent Timothy McNally* –
Independent Andrien Meyers* –
Independent David Sales* –
Independent Mandeep Thandi* –
Turnout N/A
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Bassishaw

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Bassishaw (2 seats)[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Madush Gupta* 167
Independent Cecile Boulton 126
Independent Randall Anderson 116
Independent Ian Bishop-Laggett* 40
Independent Ayub Azad 17
Turnout 33%
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Billingsgate

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Billingsgate (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Nighat Qureishi* 137
Independent Melissa Collett 115
Independent David O'Reilly 52
Independent Julie Tucker 51
Independent Luis Tilleria* 25
No description Jade Hagen 4
Turnout 42%
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Bishopsgate

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Bishopsgate (6 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Simon Burrows –
Independent Karina Dostalova –
Independent Simon Duckworth* –
Independent Shavran Joshi* –
Independent Benjamin Murphy* –
Independent Tom Sleigh* –
Turnout N/A
Independent gain from Independent
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Bread Street

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Bread Street (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Emily Benn* –
Independent Giles Shilson* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold

Bridge

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Bridge and Bridge Without (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Keith Bottomley* –
Independent Hugh Selka –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Broad Street

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Broad Street (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Elizabeth Corrin –
Independent Christopher Hayward* –
Independent Antony Manchester* –
Turnout N/A
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold

Candlewick

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Candlewick (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent James St John Davis* –
Independent Christopher Boden* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold

Castle Baynard

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Castle Baynard (8 seats)[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Bethany Coombs 292
Independent Tana Adkin 290
Independent Helen Ladele 289
Independent Susan Farrington 271
Independent Vasiliki Manta 271
Independent Leyla Ostovar 266
Independent Stephanie Steeden 257
Independent Josephine Hayes 255
CB Independents Graham Packham* 222
CB Independents George Godfrey 207
CB Independents Mary Durcan* 205
CB Independents John Griffiths* 203
CB Independents Debra Witt 199
CB Independents Henrika Priest* 198
CB Independents Paul Singh 196
CB Independents Michael Hudson 185
Independent Alpa Raja* 91
Independent Ronnie Barker 80
Independent Chris MacNeil 32
Turnout 31%
Independent gain from Independent
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents
Independent gain from CB Independents

Cheap

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Cheap (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Nick Bensted-Smith* –
Independent Tijs Broeke* –
Independent Alastair Moss* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Coleman Street

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Coleman Street (4 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Shahnan Bakth –
Independent Philip Kelvin –
Independent Sushil Saluja –
Independent Dawn Wright* –
Turnout N/A
Independent gain from Independent
Independent gain from Independent
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold

Cordwainer

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Cordwainer (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Jamel Banda* –
Independent Amy Horscroft –
Independent Michael Snyder* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold

Cornhill

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Cornhill (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Joanna Abeyie* –
Independent Peter Dunphy* –
Independent Tessa Marchington –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Cripplegate

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Cripplegate (8 seats)[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Anne Corbett* 503
Labour Jacqui Webster 502
Labour Mercy Haggerty 447
Independent Dawn Frampton 443
Labour Sarah Gillinson 443
Independent Ceri Wilkins* 390
Independent Gaby Robertshaw 384
Independent Adam Hogg 368
Independent Christos Christou 277
Independent Ivo de Wit 168
Turnout 35%
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
Independent gain from Independent
Labour gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent
Independent gain from Independent

Dowgate

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Dowgate (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Henry Pollard* –
Independent Mark Wheatley* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold

Farringdon Within

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Farringdon Within (8 seats)[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Edwards* 259
Independent Ann Holmes* 242
Independent Brendan Barns* 232
Independent John Foley* 206
Independent Matthew Bell* 201
Independent David Williams 201
Independent Florence Keelson-Anfu* 146
Independent Fraser Peck 133
Independent Jani Levanen 123
Independent Nzube Ufodike 88
Labour Gordon Nardell 80
Labour Bilal Mahmood 79
Independent Gerard O'Sullivan 76
Turnout 32%
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Farringdon Without

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Farringdon Without (10 seats)[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
T&F Together Paul Martinelli* 260
T&F Together Greg Lawrence* 253
T&F Together Wendy Mead* 253
T&F Together George Abrahams* 249
T&F Together Oliver Sells* 232
T&F Together William Upton* 229
T&F Together Edward Lord* 227
T&F Together Suzanne Ornsby 222
T&F Together Ruby Sayed* 222
T&F Together Stuart Thompson 212
Independent Desiree Artesi 145
Turnout 11%
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold
T&F Together hold

Langbourn

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Langbourn (3 seats)[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Timothy Butcher* 135
Independent Matthew Waters 102
Independent Philip Woodhouse* 90
Independent Judith Pleasance* 84
Independent Amy Green 68
Turnout 41%
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold

Lime Street

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Lime Street (4 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Dominic Christian* –
Independent Henry Colthurst* –
Independent Anthony Fitzpatrick* –
Independent Irem Yerdelen* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Portsoken

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Portsoken (4 seats)[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Fletcher* 219
Independent Samapti Bagchi 207
Independent Jason Paul Pritchard* 183
Independent Munsur Ali* 171
Independent Aline Koztepe 115
Independent Hanif Ali 113
Labour Joe Verlander 52
Labour Dil-Veer Kang 36
Turnout 49%
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent
Independent hold
Independent hold

Queenhithe

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Queenhithe (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Caroline Haines* –
Independent Brian Mooney* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold

Tower

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Tower (4 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Aaron D'Souza –
Independent Marianne Fredericks* –
Independent Jason Groves* –
Independent James Tumbridge* –
Turnout N/A
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Vintry

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Vintry (2 seats)[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Jaspreet Hodgson* 131
Independent Stephen Hodgson 111
Labour Jonathan McLeod 30
Labour Mark Glover 26
Turnout 49%
Independent hold
Independent gain from Independent

Walbrook

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Walbrook (2 seats)[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Alethea Silk* 150
Independent James Thomson* 145
Independent Gillian Kaile 41
Turnout 39%
Independent hold
Independent hold

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Ward elections - City of London". www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. City of London Corporations. Archived from the original on 12 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Forthcoming elections". City of London Corporation. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project - 2022 - City of London Corporation". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  4. ^ "The place where businesses and their office workers vote". BBC News. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b Wright, Charles (19 March 2025). "Charles Wright: Limited competition in City of London elections". OnLondon. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Election results". City of London. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Castle Baynard". castle-baynard.org.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  8. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Cripplegate Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Election results". City of London. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  10. ^ "Bassishaw". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  11. ^ "Billingsgate". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  12. ^ Bottomley, Keith (February 2025). "Hugh Selka and I are standing for re-election". LinkedIn.
  13. ^ KC, Tana Adkin (4 November 2024). "If you want more women in the City, vote for us". City AM. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  14. ^ "Portsoken - Community". www.speakforthecity.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  15. ^ Zorzut, Adrian (11 March 2025). "Full list of City of London election candidates and polling stations". My London. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  16. ^ "Local Election Results 2022 City of London Corporation". Local Elections Archive Project. 19 October 2024.
  17. ^ "Aldersgate".
  18. ^ "Bassishaw".
  19. ^ "Billingsgate".
  20. ^ "Castle Baynard". cityoflondon.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  21. ^ "Cripplegate".
  22. ^ "Farringdon Within".
  23. ^ "Farringdon Without".
  24. ^ "Langbourn".
  25. ^ "Portsoken".
  26. ^ "Vintry".
  27. ^ "Walbrook".
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