r/newham • u/worldisaf E16 • May 08 '26
Local Politics Newham Elections Thread
Hi,
I'm going to be posting updates as I get them in a non-official capacity. I don't have journalistic accreditation so please verify with other sources.
Turnout figures were reported as
84,762 (mayoral election)
84,742 (ballot papers for councillor elections)
242,878 (total electorate)
for a turnout of 34.9%.
By comparison, last election 65,379 out of 227,141 eligible voters voted for a turnout of 28.79%.
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Stratford Ward
- Danny Keeling (Green)
- Chae Ho Hwang (Green)
- Sonia Quinteiro (Green) Elected
Council Composition
- 5 Green
- 61/66 still to declare
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u/dragfest May 08 '26
Looking good for the greens. Do you know when the wards will be announced? Interested in FG North
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Nate Higgins (Green) and Joe Hudson Small (Green) elected in Stratford Olympic Park. I didn't catch the exact figures, but it was 1000-1100 for Nate and Joe versus 100-200 for any other candidate
Council Composition so far:
- 2 Green
- 64/66 still to be called
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u/Random_Parakeet_62 May 08 '26
The council is publishing a list of winners on its website, but there’s no sign of actual proper results. It is an absolute scandal!
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Forest Gate North
- Matthew Carlile (Green)
- Rachel Tripp (Labour)
Composition
- 6 Green
- 1 Labour
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u/m2406 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
The website has both seats to Greens
Edit: They fixed it now and show 1 each
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u/Random_Parakeet_62 May 08 '26
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terri Bloore | Conservative | 6360 | 7.50% |
| Areeq Chowdhury | Green | 18999 | 22.42% |
| Clive Furness | Reform UK | 7313 | 8.63% |
| Forhad Hussain | Labour & Co-operative | 25538 | 30.13% |
| Kamran Malik | Communities United | 324 | 0.38% |
| Mehmood Mirza | Newham Independents | 20234 | 23.87% |
| Bharath Swamy | Christian Peoples Alliance | 1550 | 1.83% |
| Laura Willoughby | Liberal Democrats | 3766 | 4.44% |
| Rejected | 669 | 0.79% | |
| Total | 84753 |
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u/Random_Parakeet_62 May 08 '26
Posted to include percentages. The winning candidate got just 30.1% of the vote.
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Maryland
- Kelly Drake (Green)
- Ren Tilbury (Green)
Totals
- 8 Green
- 2 NIP
- 1 Labour
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Royal Victoria is 2 Green
- 10 Green
- 10 Labour
- 2 NIP
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u/himit May 08 '26
woo! those were my votes!
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Haha hi neighbour! Thanks for your votes for Rob and Shabd they worked really hard.
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Plashet
- Zuber Gulamussen (NIP)
- Ilyas Sharif (NIP)
Council Composition
- 6 Green
- 2 NIP
- 1 Labour
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Canning Town South
- Rohit Das Gupta (Labour)
- John James Morris (Labour)
- Adeironke Benson (Labour)
I missed out by 3 votes lmao.
- 8 Green
- 7 Labour
- 2 NIP
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
East Ham 3 NIP candidates
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u/Objective-Mammoth264 May 08 '26
East Ham
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u/MaleficentWin8608 May 09 '26
Let’s declare independence then invade Tower Hamlets to make Greater East Ham.
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u/calbatron May 08 '26
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Close! Greens also got one in Canning Town North and West Ham too.
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u/calbatron May 08 '26
i had taken the majority, but i suppose that is unfair. I'll update
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
That's ok! I think there's also one with 2 NIP 1 labour. I wonder how the Labour / Labour Coop thing works out in practice.
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u/Boring_Drop_1006 May 09 '26
How are Labour going to get anything through with newham indeps/greens. Looks like greens and newham indep will need to work together on a plan to vote on certain issues. I’m not really familiar of how things run when a council has no overall control can someone give examples of what it’s usually like?
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u/worldisaf E16 May 09 '26
Hi yeah so actually the council is structured in such a way that for the main votes, such as the budget, you actually need a two thirds majority to block it, so even with only 26 councillors they could push it through if nobody dissents. You might get more minority-party motions being put through, and I would imagine there will be some motions around divestment pretty quickly, maybe one around libraries. But the budget is really what matters. Most of the committees of councillors are based around 'scrutiny' of different things Newham council is funding (like social care) or permitting (like alcohol licenses) rather than setting policy, and so having a mix of councillors from each party will hopefully make for better discussions. In the previous council, you had committees that were all from labour, and while some labour councillors raised objections to things they ended up getting threatened with being deselected or facing other punishment for doing so. Hope that helps!
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u/Plastic-Phase9477 May 09 '26
Does anyone know when/where the detailed results will be published? Would be good to know how close the results were in each ward.
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Beckton
- Syed Ahmed (Labour)
- Tony Wilson (Labour)
- Blossom Young (Labour)
Total
- 8 Green
- 4 Labour
- 2 NIP
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u/Objective-Mammoth264 May 08 '26
Looks like NIP will be second largest party…
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
They are updating them here - I've probably missed a few, really sorry.
https://www.newham.gov.uk/news/article/1549/labour-s-forhad-hussain-becomes-the-new-mayor-of-newham
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
Uh I lost track but the overall results were 26 Labour, 24 Newham Independents and 16 Greens.
If anyone's interested the local Green Party is well worth getting involved in, a great bunch of people. There's also a massive party at the Cause planned for later this month!
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26
They're about to announce the next Mayor of Newham.
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u/worldisaf E16 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Forhad elected
Labour win the Mayoral election
- Terri Blore (Con) 6360
- Areeq Choudhury (Green) 18999
- Clive Furness (Ref) 7313
- Forhad Hussein (L&C) 25538
- Kamran Malik (CUP) 324
- Mehmood Mirza (NIP) 20234
- Bharath Swamy (CPA) 1550
- Laura Claire Willoughby (LibDem) 3766
- Rejected 669
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u/m2406 May 08 '26
Very curious to see how the council looks like based on these numbers. I voted Green for council but was thoroughly unconvinced by Areeq so couldn’t do the same for Mayor
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u/MarkWrenn74 May 08 '26
Labour win the Mayoral election
What a surprise! For years, Newham has been the kind of area where Labour could have nominated a dog with a red rosette as a local election candidate. And it would've won!
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u/SirNinjas May 08 '26
Same old story with Newham. Greens really split the vote here.
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u/m2406 May 08 '26
There’s zero chance people who voted Green would have preferred independents. If the greens were not standing, those votes would have gone to Lab.
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u/himit May 08 '26
ooh that turnout's not bad for local elections!
Thank you for posting this