2006 Islington London Borough Council election

The 2006 Islington Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.^[1]

2006 Islington Council election

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All 48 council seats
First party Second party   Leader Steve Hitchins Catherine West Party Liberal Democrats Labour Leader since 1997 2004 Leader's seat St. Peter's (defeated) Tollington Last election 38 seats, 45.8% 10 seats, 35.7% Seats won 24 23 Seat change 13 12 Popular vote 39,238 41,404 Percentage 33.1% 34.9% Swing 12.7% 0.8%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Katie Dawson David Barnes Party Green Conservative Leader since 4 May 2006 Leader's seat Highbury West Highbury East (defeated) Last election 0 seat, 10.8% 0 seats, 4.2% Seats won 1 0 Seat change 1 Popular vote 19,736 14,121 Percentage 16.6% 11.9% Swing 5.8% 7.7%
Leader of Largest Party before election Steve Hitchins Liberal Democrats Subsequent Leader of Largest Party James Kempton Liberal Democrats

Map of the results of the 2006 Islington council election. Liberal Democrats in yellow, Labour in red and Green Party in green.

Election result

The results saw the Liberal Democrats lose their majority on the council, after the Labour Party made a gain of 12 seats.^[2] The Green Party, meanwhile, gained a seat on the council.^[3]

Islington Council Election Result 2006^[4]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	24	1	13	−12	50.0	33.1	39,238	−12.7%
	Labour	23	13	1	+12	47.9	34.9	41,404	−0.8%
	Green	1	1	0	+1	2.1	16.6	19,736	+5.8%
	Conservative	0	0	1	−1	0.0	11.9	14,121	+7.7%
	Ind. Working Class	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.6	3,142	+1.6%
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.6	658	−1.0%
	CPA	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	289	+0.0%
	Liberal	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	44	+0.0%

Ward results

* – Existing Councillor seeking re-election.

Barnsbury (3)^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Murray	1,072	37.8
	Labour	Jilani Chowdhury	986
	Labour	Mouna Hamitouche	973
	Liberal Democrats	Bridget Fox *	888	31.3
	Liberal Democrats	Emma Gowers	789
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Middleton	744
	Conservative	Martin Koder	445	15.7
	Conservative	Katherine Bereza	437
	Green	Nicola Baird	432	15.2
	Conservative	Lloyd Sampson	426
	Green	Elaine Londesborough	394
	Green	Jan Hallett	391
Turnout			7,977	35.9	+7.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Bunhill (3)^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Donna Boffa	777	30.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ruth Polling	719
	Liberal Democrats	Jyoti Vaja *	708
	Labour	Simon Charles	644	25.3
	Labour	Troy Gallagher	643
	Ind. Working Class	Ben Mackmurdie	566	22.2
	Labour	Samuel McBratney	563
	Ind. Working Class	Gary O'Shea	544
	Ind. Working Class	Andy Taylor	504
	Conservative	Guy Black	316	12.4
	Conservative	Nicholas Sheffield	300
	Conservative	Eve Gannon	291
	Green	Damien O'Farrell	247	9.7
	Green	Lyn Bliss	202
	Green	Angela Thomson	164
Turnout			7,188	29.4	+8.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Caledonian (3)^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Convery	1,025	40.5
	Labour	Ian Perry	1,022
	Labour	Lisa Spall	937
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Curran	907	35.8
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Powell *	878
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Hall	808
	Conservative	Stuart Cottis	310	12.3
	Conservative	Duncan Webster	305
	Conservative	Jacqueline Fage	299
	Green	Mark Chilver	288	11.4
	Green	Alexander Gordon	286
	Green	Sheena Etches	270
Turnout			7,335	34.2	+6.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Canonbury (3)^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Watt *	994	39.9
	Liberal Democrats	Paula Belford	973
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Smith *	959
	Labour	Melanie Rawlingson	740	29.7
	Labour	Timothy McLoughlin	682
	Labour	Christopher Roche	632
	Green	Christopher Hayles	400	16.1
	Conservative	Christopher Williams	357	14.3
	Conservative	Nckinsey Kerr	354
	Green	Jules Le Bihan	347
	Conservative	Nicholas Canty	346
	Green	Saif Osmani	279
Turnout			7,063	31.7	+4.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Clerkenwell (3)^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	George Allan *	753	29.4
	Liberal Democrats	Kelly Peasnell	662
	Liberal Democrats	Marisha Ray *	647
	Ind. Working Class	Sharon Hayward	542	21.2
	Ind. Working Class	Sarah Nash	525
	Labour	Timothy Clark	505	19.7
	Ind. Working Class	Lorna Reid	461
	Labour	Lydia Florence	457
	Labour	Daniel Neidle	436
	Conservative	Christopher Cameron-Doe	424	16.6
	Conservative	Simon Toms	369
	Conservative	David Vaiani	350
	Green	Michael Coffey	334	13.1
	Green	Pamela Nowicka	269
	Green	Gordon Ross	239
Turnout			6,973	31.3	+6.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Finsbury Park (3)^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Kelly	938	38.7
	Labour	Michael O'Sullivan *	890
	Labour	Barbara Sidnell *	880
	Liberal Democrats	Andrea O'Halloran	769	31.7
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Cameron	726
	Liberal Democrats	Shahbaz Husain	708
	Green	Jane Hutchings	358	14.8
	Green	Deborah Maby	300
	Green	Charlotte Woodworth	295
	Conservative	Michael Heeneman	241	9.9
	Conservative	Smita Bhat	217
	Conservative	Oriel Clohessy	211
	CPA	Samantha Dixon	119	4.9
	CPA	Maria Aguiar	87
	CPA	Fernando Aguiar	83
Turnout			6,822	30.6	+10.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Highbury East (3)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Willoughby *	976	33.9
	Liberal Democrats	Terry Stacy *	870
	Liberal Democrats	John Gilbert	836
	Labour	Stephen Molyneaux	726	25.2
	Labour	Leo Schulz	726
	Labour	Michael Gilgunn	696
	Green	Emma Dixon	637	22.1
	Conservative	David Barnes *	540	18.8
	Conservative	Martine Oborne	493
	Green	Andrew Myer	491
	Green	James Humphreys	479
	Conservative	Tim Newark	450
Turnout			7,920	36.5	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Highbury West (3)^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Theresa Debono *	1,178	39.2
	Green	Katie Dawson	1,135	37.8
	Labour	Richard Greening *	1,119
	Green	Jon Nott	1,014
	Labour	Adrian Pulham *	944
	Green	Robin Latimer	935
	Conservative	Neil Lindsay	338	11.3
	Conservative	Anna-Lisa Ivin	309
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Marshall	307	10.2
	Conservative	Marie Philipsz	290
	Liberal Democrats	Nicky Bason	286
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Middleton	275
	Liberal	Paul Josling	44	1.5
Turnout			8,174	34.8	+8.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hillrise (3)^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Fiona Dunlop *	1,126	40.8
	Liberal Democrats	Greg Foxsmith	977
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Williams	958
	Labour	Marian Spall	920	33.3
	Labour	David Poyser	912
	Labour	Claudia Webbe	871
	Green	Michael Holloway	463	16.8
	Green	James North	373
	Green	Stephen Horne	329
	Conservative	Maureen Campbell	250	9.1
	Conservative	Paul Newman	190
Turnout			7,369	34.1	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Holloway (3)^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Natasha Chatterjee	934	38.2
	Labour	Barry Edwards	921
	Labour	Paul Smith	911
	Liberal Democrats	Michelle Allison	842	34.5
	Liberal Democrats	Margot Dunn *	820
	Liberal Democrats	Iarla Kilbane-Dawe	732
	Green	Jennifer Chan	402	16.5
	Green	Claire Poyner	367
	Green	Pelham Davey	357
	Conservative	Andrew Austin	264	10.8
	Conservative	Paul Seligman	248
	Conservative	David Cheape	236
Turnout			7,034	32.2	+5.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Junction (3)^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Ursula Woolley	1,015	35.9
	Liberal Democrats	Stefan Kasprzyk *	1,014
	Labour	Janet Burgess	936	33.1
	Liberal Democrats	Zubin Masani	873
	Labour	Patricia Clarke	870
	Labour	John Wyman	772
	Green	Rosemary House	386	13.6
	Green	Donald Lowe	320
	Green	Anthony Cooper	291
	Independent	Katharine Buffery	263	9.3
	Conservative	Mark Bennett	228	8.1
	Independent	Charles Ware	212
	Conservative	Francine Schwartz	200
	Conservative	Chris Skidmore	188
Turnout			7,568	35.4	+4.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Mildmay (3)^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Berent *	958	43.2
	Liberal Democrats	Rhodri Jamieson-Ball	818
	Liberal Democrats	Meral Ece *	814
	Labour	Beverley Bruce	793	35.8
	Labour	Conor McGinn	722
	Labour	Stuart Edwards	719
	Green	Ilana Morrissey	466	21.0
	Green	Christopher Ashby	441
	Green	Matthew Morrissey	365
Turnout			6,096	27.5	+2.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

St George's (3)^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tracy Ismail	1,179	40.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Cornwell	1,080
	Labour	Walter Burgess *	1,075	36.5
	Labour	Gary Heather	975
	Labour	Jacqueline Williams	938
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Smith	921
	Green	Kathryn Tansley	477	16.2
	Green	Judith Kleinman	474
	Green	Malcolm Powell	393
	Conservative	Patricia Napier	213	7.2
	Conservative	Hannah Hockey	212
	Conservative	John Wilkin	197
Turnout			8,134	36.1	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Mary's (3)^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Coupland *	836	32.4
	Liberal Democrats	Emily Fieran-Reed	830	32.2
	Liberal Democrats	James Kempton *	809
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Gordon	775
	Labour	John Greenshields	758
	Labour	Ian McLaughlin	718
	Conservative	Kim Anderson	447	17.3
	Conservative	Christopher Greenwood	403
	Conservative	Douglas Lloyd	403
	Green	Jonathan Hathaway	371	14.4
	Green	Eleanor Wood	371
	Green	Rosalind Sharpe	324
	Independent	Christopher Graham	95	3.7
	Independent	Richard Rosser	88
Turnout			7,228	33.6	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

St. Peter's (3)^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gary Doolan	849	32.4
	Labour	Michelle Coupland	823
	Labour	Martin Klute	817
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Coventry	798	30.4
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Hitchins *	791
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Washington	775
	Conservative	Victoria Chamberlin	496	18.9
	Conservative	Christopher Priestley	485
	Green	Agnes Buisson-Laing	480	18.3
	Conservative	David Shimwell	412
	Green	Susan Wilkinson	399
	Green	Richard Wood	333
Turnout			7,458	33.1	+7.2
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Tollington (3)^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine Elizabeth West *	1,338	45.8
	Labour	Richard Charles Watts	1,312
	Labour	Daniel Robert Hulls	1,270
	Liberal Democrats	Khalid Said Oumar	827	28.3
	Liberal Democrats	Harriet Ellen Richmond	790
	Liberal Democrats	David Charles Tibbs	757
	Green	Alison Ann Boater	531	18.2
	Green	Peter William Jones	429
	Green	Christine Fiona Muirhead	408
	Conservative	Duncan Philip Connors	226	7.7
	Conservative	Fraser Anthony Crawford	222
	Conservative	Maria Psatha	183
Turnout			8,293	34.0	+8.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing