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The 2026Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election will take place on 7 May 2026. [2] All 48 members of Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council will be elected. The elections will take place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. [3]
In 2022 the Liberal Democrats retained control of Kingston upon Thames council. [4] The Conservatives formed the opposition with three seats. [5]
| After 2022 election | Before 2026 election | After 2026 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 44 | Liberal Democrats | 42 | |||||
| Conservative | 3 | KIRG | 4 | |||||
| KIRG | 1 | Conservative | 2 | |||||
Changes 2022–2026:
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Jill Anderson | |||
| Reform | Ann Buchan | |||
| Green | Anna Burlingsby | |||
| Labour | Margaret Freedman | |||
| Conservative | Simon Illsley | |||
| Conservative | Arjun Johal | |||
| Green | Des Kay | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Amir Khan | |||
| Labour | James Lock | |||
| KIRG | Aaron Mafi | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Manders | |||
| KIRG | Gavin Pushparajan | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Anthony Ayoola | |||
| Reform | Anthony Bateman | |||
| Conservative | Paul Bedforth | |||
| Labour | Estelle Buchanan | |||
| Labour | Roy Green | |||
| Green | Joyce Kay | |||
| Conservative | Steve Kent | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Rizwana Malik | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Anita Schaper | |||
| Green | Philip Smith | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIRG | Ali Abdulla | |||
| Conservative | Mohammad Beheshti | |||
| Reform | Maria Blake | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicolai Due-Gundersen | |||
| Labour | Kelly Galvin | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Higgins | |||
| Reform | Anthony Larkin | |||
| KIRG | Mihaela McKendrick | |||
| Labour | Christopher Priest | |||
| Conservative | Anand Rajpurohit | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Simon Bain | |||
| Conservative | Irena Boylett | |||
| Monster Raving Loony | A Chinners | |||
| Monster Raving Loony | Captain Coiley | |||
| Conservative | John Eakin | |||
| Reform | Kevin Eggleton | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Andreas Kirsch | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Griseldis Kirsch | |||
| Reform | Pawel Lachowski | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sharukh Mirza | |||
| Labour | Alfred Pirotta | |||
| Labour | Laurie South | |||
| Conservative | Sue Towner | |||
| Labour | Fe Wood | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Zain Abbas | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Tushar Aneja | |||
| Conservative | Rowena Bass | |||
| Reform | Jeanine Bateman | |||
| KIRG | Jamal Chohan | |||
| Conservative | Ian George | |||
| Green | Patrick Goodacre | |||
| Labour | Anthony Murray | |||
| KIRG | Zebunisa Rao | |||
| Labour | Sally Richardson | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Austen | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Kim Bailey | |||
| Green | Chloe Bell | |||
| KIRG | Phil Doyle | |||
| Labour | Nick Draper | |||
| KIRG | David James Giles | |||
| Conservative | Pallavi Konwar | |||
| Independent | Kamala Kugan | |||
| Conservative | Lee Marcel | |||
| Labour | Ian Parker | |||
| Reform | Sandy Piercey | |||
| KIRG | Suniya Qureshi | |||
| Conservative | Cathy Roberts | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Sillett | |||
| Labour | Brian Thomas | |||
| Green | Peter Whitworth | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Dunia Al-Baghdadi | |||
| Conservative | Mike Chattey | |||
| Labour | Pat Dobson | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Simon Foylan | |||
| KIRG | James Giles | |||
| Reform | Lucy Grimstone | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Rory Hall | |||
| Reform | Gregory Jarrett | |||
| Labour | Gerry Jones | |||
| Conservative | Rosemary Salusbury | |||
| KIRG | Yvonne Tracey | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Sue Ansari | |||
| Green | Parsa Bahadori | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Joanne Barker | |||
| Reform | Angus Cameron | |||
| Conservative | Noëlle Carteret | |||
| Reform | John Cherry | |||
| Labour | David Cooper | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Lorraine Dunstone | |||
| KIRG | Liam Hebborn | |||
| Green | Elizabeth Hill | |||
| Conservative | David Phillips | |||
| Monster Raving Loony | Liam Secrett | |||
| Conservative | Kye Slawson-Powell | |||
| Labour | Christine Thompson | |||
| Labour | Rosemary Vase | |||
| Green | David Webb | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Nausheen Arnold | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Mark Beynon | |||
| Conservative | Gia Borg-Darcy | |||
| Labour | Bob Freedman | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Grocott | |||
| Green | Pauline Howard | |||
| KIRG | Danyaal Khwaja | |||
| KIRG | Julian McCarthy | |||
| Labour | Andrew Prosser | |||
| Green | Kate Worley | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Matt Browne | |||
| KIRG | Noor Jamal Chohan | |||
| Reform | Robert Edwards | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas Evans | |||
| KIRG | Kerry Giles | |||
| Labour | Tam Holmes | |||
| Reform | Alexander Horsfall | |||
| Labour | Frank Kitson | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Manners | |||
| Reform | Graham Matthews | |||
| Conservative | Rahul Naithani | |||
| Labour | James Oatridge | |||
| Conservative | Donald Porter | |||
| KIRG | Sonu Ali Sayeed | |||
| Conservative | Leela Seaton | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sarah Wait-Sillett | |||
| Green | Elizabeth Walter | |||
| Green | Michael Wright | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Gillian Aston | |||
| Conservative | Terry Bowers | |||
| KIRG | Rubina Cassell | |||
| Labour | Elizabeth Coleman | |||
| Green | Peter Czaja | |||
| Green | James Dean | |||
| Reform | John Ennett | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sabah Hamed | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Roger Hayes | |||
| Labour | Keegan Hillier | |||
| Reform | Tony James | |||
| Green | Raffaele Litto | |||
| Conservative | Marie McGuire | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicola Nardelli | |||
| Reform | Osvaldina Prezilius | |||
| KIRG | Jabeen Shah | |||
| KIRG | Hayley Smithers | |||
| Labour | James Stanton | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alastair Breen | |||
| Labour | Paul Casey | |||
| Reform | Diane Ferguson-Smith | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Callum Morrissey | |||
| Green | Bea Osbourne | |||
| Conservative | Terry Paton | |||
| Conservative | Rob Smith | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Wimal Wimalathasan | |||
| Reform | Riona Woodman | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | David Bent | |||
| Conservative | Caroline Bowis | |||
| Conservative | John Bowis | |||
| Labour | Tess Bowyer | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Mark Durrant | |||
| Labour | Michelle Gordon | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Lesley Heap | |||
| KIRG | Richard Hebborn | |||
| Green | Lucy Howard | |||
| Green | Jem Kale | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Dongsung Kim | |||
| Conservative | Valerie McIntyre | |||
| Green | Joel Monroe | |||
| KIRG | Raju Pandya | |||
| Labour | Gary See | |||
| Reform | James Stileman | |||
| KIRG | Deepa Veneik | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tony Banks | |||
| Conservative | Sandira Beeko | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Emily Davey | |||
| Conservative | Kevin Davis | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sam Foulder-Hughes | |||
| Green | Martin Hall | |||
| Reform | Christopher Last | |||
| Green | Fahima Mahomed | |||
| Labour | Liz Meerabeau | |||
| Reform | Jo Melbourne | |||
| Reform | Andrew Parker | |||
| Conservative | John Rutter | |||
| Green | Dylan Stewart | |||
| KIRG | Soha Sultana | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Olly Wehring | |||
| Labour | Tom Wingfield | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Nicholas Badham | |||
| Conservative | John Baek | |||
| Reform | Ismail Birant | |||
| Green | David Charlton | |||
| Conservative | Harry Foskin | |||
| KIRG | Clair Hebborn | |||
| Labour | Graeme Hodge | |||
| Labour | Rahul Khandelwal | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Mike Massimi | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Park | |||
| Green | Harrie Vischjager | |||
| KIRG | Chris Walton | |||
| Heritage | Michael Watson | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Joseph Al-Khalili | |||
| Green | Abbas Aref | |||
| Conservative | Tim Brown | |||
| Green | Archie Coyne | |||
| Green | Ayse Demir | |||
| Reform | Caroline Ford | |||
| Labour | Emma Francis | |||
| Reform | Nick Frei | |||
| Labour | John Matthews | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Milestone | |||
| Reform | Marcus Mohammed | |||
| Conservative | Carole Robinson | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Sadler | |||
| Conservative | Ian Wilson | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Yogan Yoganathan | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Jackie Alex | |||
| Reform | Edward Alex | |||
| Conservative | Kristine Boudreau | |||
| KIRG | Andrea Chambers | |||
| KIRG | Glen Colegate | |||
| Labour | Oliver Freedman | |||
| Reform | Willaim Harris | |||
| Green | Nannette Herbert | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Holt | |||
| KIRG | Easha-tir-Raazi Khawaja | |||
| Green | Emma Loffler | |||
| Green | Conor McGovern-Paul | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Tom Reeve | |||
| Conservative | Alasdair Rennie | |||
| Labour | Kris Saravanan | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Manish Shukla | |||
| Conservative | Colin Suckling | |||
| Labour | Rebecca Way | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Luma Al-Azzawi | |||
| Labour | Victoria Bowers | |||
| Green | Louise Burlingsby | |||
| Reform | John Butcher | |||
| KIRG | Jessica Dearlove | |||
| Labour | Christopher Ellis | |||
| KIRG | Michael Winston Firth | |||
| Labour | Gill Gray | |||
| Reform | Silva Kaludura | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jane Lim | |||
| Green | Owen Ostler | |||
| Conservative | Mary Perham | |||
| Conservative | Martin Pike | |||
| Reform | Alan Seager | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Thay Thayalan | |||
| KIRG | Mark David Thomas | |||
| Conservative | Andrew Willson | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Wooldrige | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Bernado Barreto-Kuhlbrodt | |||
| Conservative | Julian Bedale | |||
| Conservative | Jamila Bibi-Sarwar | |||
| Green | Alison Gomez-Russell | |||
| KIRG | Syreeta Howard-James | |||
| Reform | Jithwin Lalam Venkata | |||
| Labour | Michael Middleton | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Blaise Murphet | |||
| Labour | James Pike | |||
| Green | Lydia Poole | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sachin Tulyani | |||
| KIRG | Maureen Wilkins | |||
| Total votes | ||||
| Turnout | ||||