Lambeth Local Elections Live: Day two of the count continues – 9th May 2026

12.17pm Stronger rumour of Tom Palmer (Green) and Judith Cavanagh (Labour) sharing the seats in West Dulwich – announcement expected. 11.25am Tom Palmer rumoured to have gained a seat for …

May 9, 2026 - 12:19

Lambeth Local Elections Live: Day two of the count continues – 9th May 2026

12.17pm

Stronger rumour of Tom Palmer (Green) and Judith Cavanagh (Labour) sharing the seats in West Dulwich – announcement expected.

11.25am

Tom Palmer rumoured to have gained a seat for the Greens in West Dulwich.

11.20am

First announcement of day 2: Cat Thompson gains a seat for the Greens in Clapham East by a clear 100 votes!

Erica Abu, Labour and Co-operative Party is also elected.

11.17am Saturday 9 May

Interesting chat on our sister website urban75:

I think that full recounts have only been agreed in three of the nine outstanding wards.

Some of the others were just timed out by Lambeth officials not being well enough organised.

[Tinfoil hat] There were suggestions rumbling around at the count that senior officers at the council, who owe their jobs to Labour and might be looking for roles elsewhere if the council goes to No Overall Control, might have delayed count declarations so that Labour losing Lambeth was not a headline in evening news bulletins: [/TinfoilHat].

10:00am Saturday 9 May

We’ll post results as they come in with a full round up at the end of the day.

22:00pm

The venue has closed, and we’re being asked to return tomorrow for the remaining official calls.

21:54pm

Clapham Common and Abbeville – double win for Lib Dems’ Chris Nicholson and Simon Cordon.

21:50pm

Waterloo – one Labour, one Lib Dem – Ibrahim Dogus returned for Labour.

21:47pm

Two Labour, one Green in Brixton North – John Paul and Manley-Browne returned.

21:42pm

Three seat clean sweep in Knights Hill for Greens – Matt Wilcock, Elizabeth Fraser and Lisa Schulkind all voted in.

21:39pm

Green three sweep in St Leonard’s. Ainslie overjoyed, although Saiqa Ali not present at count.

21:30pm

Four official announcements coming now.

It’s worth noting that with 63 seats in total, Lambeth council would slip from Labour control if oppostion confirmations reach 32.

Confirmed oppositon seats currently add up to 18, so 13 more wins for Green or Lib Dem mean Labour lose control of Lambeth for the first time in two decades.

21:12pm

Knights Hill – big Green cheers and hugs at provisional count, possible clean sweep of 3, taking potential tally to 21 – TBC

21:08pm

Based on provisional and official results, Greens are rumoured to be on 18 seats – TBC

20:22pm

Clean sweep for Zviko and Greens in Brixton, Rush Common.

Labour clean sweep Oval – Claire Holland survives.

Kennington – clean 3 seat sweep for Labour comeback

20:08pm

Lot of provisional calls, nothing confirmed…expecting slurry of official announcements soon.

Labour seem to be pulling back from early losses.

20:06pm

Stockwell West & Larkhall could be a Labour 3 seat sweep, but a recount is likely- TBC

20:02pm

Recount in Myatt’s Fields – one Green, one Labour looks possible – TBC

19:50pm

Oval looks like 3 Labour if rumours are to be believed. Claire Holland to return.

19:35pm

Zviko and Rush Common Greens get huge cheers in count room…could it be another clean sweep?

Brixton North – might be 2 Labour 1 Green if the provisional isn’t challenged.

19:30pm

Rush Common coming soon.

19:16pm

Clapham Town next – Labour demand recount over 19 vote margin…apparently [19.20pm]

19:15pm

Green Party Jeremy Isaacs overjoyed in St Martin’s ward

Pete Elliot’s return to Lambeth Council, with Chloe Hawryluk

18.52pm

Green Sweep in Gypsy Hill.

Streatham Wells – Lib Dem win both seats.

Streatham Hill East – double Green win.

18.30pm

Streatham Hill East looks like a Green sweep – TBC

18:15pm

Green Party’s Jackie Bond delighted in Vauxhall

18:10pm

Greens take all three seats in Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction.

Vauxhall split – Greens take first place despite not campaigning, Labour second and third.

Lib Dems think taking both seats in Clapham Abbeville is realistic.

17.30pm

Confirmed: Big wins for Lib Dems Matthew Bryant (1661) and Kita Ogden (1404) in Streatham Hill West and Thornton ward, Labour second (828 votes), Greens in fourth and fifth place.

Recount in Brixton Acre Lane for third place, Greens expect good result.

17.25pm

Provisional announcement sounds like Lib Dem’s win in Streatham Hill West – TBC

17:00pm

We’re told that the ballot paper piles for the Greens in Vauxhall and Waterloo are so high that’s there’s snow on the top.

16:50pm

Adjudication of doubtful ballot papers taking place in multiple wards now.

Allum and Spicer celebrate historic win.

16:20pm

CONFIRMED: Carlotta Allum and Serafina Spicer (above) win in Brixton Windrush for the Green Party each with 47% (over 1297 and 1217 votes respectively) to 37% (975 and 965 for the Labour candidates) – Scarlett O’Hara and Donatus Anyanwu out

16:20pm

Provisional announcement Brixton Windrush Green win TBC

15:50pm

Word is that Brixton Windrush is likely to be called first “as its a small ward” and representatives of the political parties have agreed adjudication of doubtful ballot papers. Result expected in 30 minutes

Announcement: Adjudication of doubtful ballot papers is now taking pace for Vauxhall and Stockwell East.

15:10pm

Labour councillors and team have been reprimanded by count officials for allegedly photographing Sabine Mairey (Green) in the count room and telling her that she “shouldn’t be here.” (photography is prohibited in the count room).

15:00pm

Rumours downstairs here are that Greens will take the Mayor’s office in Lewisham.

Still more observations of split votes in Lambeth, not just in the Shake It Up wards, but borough-wide.

14:30pm

We’ve visited the count room again, David Bridson Labour incumbent (Acre Lane) focussing his team on the count piles told us it would be “very tight.”

[Journalists, candidates and supporters waiting for the first result to be announced]

Ruby Bukhari (Shake It Up) also Acre Lane told us that Reform were doing surprising well in Brixton and Stockwell.

Whispers are coming in about worryingly high results for Reform in neighbouring Lewisham and Croydon.

14:25pm

“That nationwide Green wave is looking more like a ripple” says a poster on our thread on the urban75 forum.

13:55pm

Paul Valentine (Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction) told us he had some big piles and was quietly confident.

13:50pm

Sonia Winifred tells us that some Labour councillors are very angry with Brixton Buzz over bias and unfair coverage from us.

Sonia was among a number of former Labour councillors who were suspended over a pro-ceasefire vote, and subsequently defected to the Lambeth Green Party.

13:25pm

Boffins on the Green table tell us they are confident in their three target wards, Streatham St Leonards, Gypsy Hill and Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction.

Streatham Hill East too close to call, they say.

Turnout in neighbouring Southwark is being reported at 40% up from 34% in 2022.

13:20pm

The word from the people who number crunch is that the proportion of split votes is higher than usual.

Block votes (two ticks for the same party) are the norm apparently, so since split votes have to be counted separately, the process could be longer than usual.

12:20pm

We’ve visited the Lib Dem table and the mood from Blaise Baquich (Oval) is pesimistic, while Simon Cordon (Clapham Common & Abbeville) predicts Lib Dems will “definitely take one seat” there, with incumbent Alison Inglis-Jones (Labour) coming out on top.

12:20pm

COUNTING UNDERWAY with a 39.4% turnout announced, up from 32% (2022 ).

12:05pm

We’ve visited the count room, and counting is still not underway.

We did speak with Lambeth Mayor Adrian Garden who had great praise for the Brockwell Bark, community dog show that he presided over at the bank holiday, saying “it was a fabulous community event that really deserves funding to carry on.”

On the subject of the forthcoming count in his Rush Common ward, he smiled and said “In the words of the song: ‘Que Sera!'”

Nearby, social media sensation Zvikomborero Chihoro standing against him in Rush Common was equally philosphical: “I’m calm”, he told us “I did this for deeper reasons, winning isn’t what it’s about”.

11:52am

Laura Graham (St Martin’s), the borough’s only Your Party-backed candidate and her team calculate Jeremy Isaacs (Green) will come first in the ward with Labour second.

11:50am

A huge cheer goes up in the room from the Green team as TV monitors show ‘Greens win Hackney mayor vote’ –

WIn in Hackney for Zoë Garbett (Green Party) in mayoral election.

11:35am

Shake It Up team members believe they will take 10-15% of the vote in the wards where they stood candidates, with Neila Baiguzhanova in Stockwell West & Larkhall performing particularly well.

Green Party insider calculates Shake It Up may have cost them three seats.