2017 City of London Corporation election

← 2013 23 March 2017 2022 →
100 seats to the Court of Common Council 51 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Independent Temple & Farringdon Together Labour Last election 100 seats, 96%[1] Did not stand 0 seats, 4% Seats before 99 0 1 Seats won 85 10 5 Seat change 15 10 5 Popular vote 14,587 4,131 1,328 Percentage 72.8% 20.6% 6.6% Swing 23.8% New party 2.5%
Results by ward. Red represents Labour. Blue represents Temple & Farringdon Together. Grey represents Independents. Wards coloured dark grey did not hold contests.
Council control before election No overall control Council control after election No overall control

The 2017 City of London Corporation election took place on 23 March 2017 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation. The election was the first time apart from a 2014 by-election that partisan candidates were elected to the body. Fifteen of the hundred seats on the council were won by political parties: the newly created Temple & Farringdon Together party and the Labour Party.^[2][3]

The elections attracted media attention as they represented a high point in the City of London for Labour, who until the 2017 election had only ever won a single seat in a 2014 by-election for Portsoken ward.^[4][5]

26 councillors were elected unopposed: twenty-five independents and one Labour.

Background

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.^[6] In the previous election in 2013, all 100 seats were won by independent candidates.^[1]

In a 2014 by-election for the Portsoken ward, the Labour Party won its first seat on the council with the Anglican priest William Campbell-Taylor becoming the first partisan councillor to be elected to the body.^[7]

Electoral system

Most residents of the twenty-five wards of the City of London live in the Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Portsoken and Queenhithe. Residents have one vote each, and businesses have a number of votes that scales 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.^[8]

Councillors are elected by multi-member first-past-the-post.

Overall result