{"id":945291,"date":"2026-05-08T04:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945291\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:24:18","slug":"london-elections-2026-merton-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945291\/","title":{"rendered":"London elections 2026: Merton results"},"content":{"rendered":"

This thread is the 2026 local election results for Merton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Going into the election, Labour held 29 seats, Liberal Democrats 16, Conservatives seven, Merton Park Ward Residents Association 2, Independents 1, and one seat is vacant.<\/p>\n

Total number of confirmed councillors<\/strong>: 34\/57<\/p>\n

Labour: 23<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrats: 6<\/p>\n

Merton Park Ward Residents Association: 2<\/p>\n

Conservative: 3<\/p>\n

Turnout: 45.1%<\/p>\n

Updates to follow as results come in<\/p>\n

Ward by ward breakdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abbey <\/strong>\u2013 Winning Candidates<\/p>\n

John Braithwaite (Lib Dem) <\/p>\n

Klaar Dresselaers (Lib Dem)<\/p>\n

Barry Smith (Lib Dem)<\/p>\n

Cannon Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asif Ashraf (Lib Dem)<\/p>\n

Richard Poole (Lib Dem)<\/p>\n

Robert Mitchell (Lib Dem)<\/p>\n

Colliers Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stuart Neaverson (Labour) <\/p>\n

Joanna Sieradzinska (Labour) <\/p>\n

Caroline Cooper-Marbiah (Labour) <\/p>\n

Cricket Green<\/strong><\/p>\n

Figge\u2019s Marsh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Agatha Mary Akyigyina (Labour) <\/p>\n

Dan Johnston (Labour) <\/p>\n

Franca Ofeimu (Labour) <\/p>\n

Graveney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hillside<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lavender Fields<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harry Platts (Labour) <\/p>\n

Slawek Szczepanski (Labour)<\/p>\n

Edith MacAuley (Labour)<\/p>\n

Longthornton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brenda Fraser (Labour)<\/p>\n

Ross Garrod (Labour)<\/p>\n

Sonia Phillips (Labour)<\/p>\n

Lower Morden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Hogan (Labour) <\/p>\n

Sally Kenny (Labour)<\/p>\n

Daniel Shearer (Labour)<\/p>\n

Merton Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edward Foley (Merton Park Independent Residents)<\/p>\n

Stephen Mercer (Merton Park Independent Residents)<\/p>\n

Pollards Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ravensbury<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Alambritis (Labour) <\/p>\n

Val\u00a0Hoppichler (Labour)<\/p>\n

Peter McCabe (Labour)<\/p>\n

Raynes Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Helier<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Judge (Labour) <\/p>\n

Shuile Syeda (Labour) <\/p>\n

Nedra Daniel (Labour) <\/p>\n

Village<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Austin (Conservative) <\/p>\n

Will Orson (Conservative) <\/p>\n

Jan Comer (Conservative) <\/p>\n

Wandle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sebastian Budner (Labour)<\/p>\n

Eleanor Stringer (Labour)<\/p>\n

West Barnes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wimbledon Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wimbledon Town and Dundonald<\/strong><\/p>\n

Featured Image: Credit Bertie Carter-Semenczou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This thread is the 2026 local election results for Merton Going into the election, Labour held 29 seats,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,262516,257,44831,14236,16,15],"class_list":["post-945291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-local-elections-2026","tag-london","tag-merton","tag-results","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537057946648086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}