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\t\tCity AM is previewing local election votes taking place in every London borough.\t<\/p>\n\t\t\tThursday 23 April 2026 1:05 am
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\t\tCity AM is previewing local election votes taking place in every London borough.\t<\/p>\n
Voters are heading to the polls in the Labour stronghold of Ealing, against a backdrop of controversial developments, an increasingly split electoral map, and a hike in council tax. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In the West London borough of Ealing, Labour is defending one of its strongest majorities in London at this latest set of local elections<\/a>. <\/p>\n Back in 2022, Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s party won a commanding 57 seats, with six going to the Lib Dems and five going Conservative.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boundary changes mean that voters are electing 70 councillors rather than the previous 69.<\/p>\n In this latest set of elections in May, results in Ealing are expected at 04:30am on 8th May.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ealing constituencies are represented in Parliament by three Labour MPs, including chief secretary to the Treasury James Murray<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although Labour is unlikely to lose overall control of Ealing Council, the party has been losing ground in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Starmer\u2019s landslide general election win in 2024, each Ealing Labour MP lost vote share.<\/p>\n And in each of these seats, the Conservatives and Lib Dems lost ground as well. The main beneficiaries were the Greens, with a smaller slice of the pie going to Reform.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n \t\t\tLondon Local Elections 2026: Who will win in Croydon?<\/a><\/p>\n In March Kate Crawford, a former Labour councillor in East Acton, defected to the Lib Dems after being blocked from standing for her former party.\u00a0<\/p>\n Council tax rise and government funding boost\u00a0<\/p>\n The West London borough is looking at a significant cash injection from the government\u2019s council funding redistribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n As part of a national \u2018Fair Funding Review\u2019, Ealing Council will receive an additional \u00a3131.8m in government funding \u2013 amounting to a 35 per cent boost in spending power.\u00a0<\/p>\n Local residents will foot the bill for some of this spending hike, with council tax set to go up by \u00a398 for the average Band D property in a 4.8 per cent increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n A key battleground issue in Ealing has been a series of controversial residential development projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Greens have been critical of Trumpers Towers, a proposed residential development on a brownfield site.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile the branch chair for Reform in Ealing has come out against the proliferation of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs), which he has blamed on a rise in anti-social behaviour in the borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n City AM is previewing local election votes taking place in every London borough. Click here<\/a> for a full overview of May 7.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n