2006 Lewisham London Borough Council election

Elections to Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election.

2006 Lewisham Council election

← 2002 4 May 2006 2010 →
All 54 council seats to Lewisham London Borough Council 28 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Liberal Democrats Green Seats won 26 17 6 Seat change 19 13 5 Popular vote 17,869 13,367 10,443 Percentage 32.7% 24.4% 19.1% Swing 6.3% 5.8% 3.0%   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Conservative Socialist Alternative Seats won 3 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 9,894 1,118 Percentage 18.1% 2.0% Swing 1.7% 0.1%
Map of the results of the 2006 Lewisham council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Socialist Alternative in light red.
Council control before election Labour Council control after election No overall control

Lewisham local elections are held every four years, with the next due in 2010.^[1][2]

Election result

Lewisham Local Election Result 2006^[3]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	26	0	19	19	48.1	32.7	17,869	6.3
	Liberal Democrats	17	13	0	13	31.5	24.4	13,367	5.8
	Green	6	5	0	5	11.1	19.1	10,443	3.0
	Conservative	3	1	0	1	5.6	18.1	9,894	1.7
	Socialist Alternative	2	1	0	1	3.7	2.0	1,118	0.1
	Independent	0	0	0		0.0	2.7	1,459	1.1
	UKIP	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	281	0.1
	Lewisham Peoples Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	169	New
	Alliance for Green Socialism	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	111	New

The Green Party won all three seats in the Brockley and Ladywell wards and the Socialist Alternative won two seats in the Telegraph Hill ward.^[4]

Election for Mayor

Lewisham Mayoral Election Results 2006
	Name	Party	1st Preference Votes	%	2nd Preference Votes¹	%	Final	%²
	Steve Bullock	Labour	22,155	37.7	2,974	?	25,129	57.1
	Christopher Maines	Liberal Democrats	12,398	21.1	6,491	?	18,889	42.9
	James Cleverly	Conservative	10,790	18.4	?	?	N/A
	Michael Keogh	Green	7,168	12.2	?	?	N/A
	John Hamilton	Independent	4,823	8.2	?	?	N/A
	Sinna Mani	Lewisham Peoples Alliance	1,366	2.3	?	?	N/A

¹Under the Supplementary Vote system, if no candidate receives 50% of 1st choice votes, 2nd choice votes are added to the result for the top two 1st choice candidates. If a ballot gives a first and second preference to the top two candidates in either order, then their second preference is not counted, so that a second preference cannot count against a first.

²Percentage figures are not officially used on the final votes, they are produced here for illustration and are calculated by the candidates final vote divided by the total of final votes.

Ward results

Bellingham

Bellingham (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Hall	878	40.3
	Labour	Ami Ibitson	849
	Labour	Ronald Stockbridge	780
	Conservative	Douglas Pratt	498	22.8
	Conservative	Rosemary Pratt	461
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Morris	455	20.9
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Ashton	448
	Conservative	Margaret Smith	438
	Liberal Democrats	Derek Gambell	383
	Green	Roger Sedgley	350	16.0
Turnout				22.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Blackheath

Blackheath (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Maines	1,088	35.1
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Bennett	1,018
	Liberal Democrats	Godfried Gyechie	931
	Labour	Andrew Brown	895	28.9
	Labour	Rachael Maskell	864
	Labour	Gavin Moore	860
	Conservative	Simon Nundy	667	21.5
	Conservative	Neil Weatherall	663
	Conservative	Darren Wall	654
	Green	Vanessa Gould	446	14.4
	Green	Rasjidah St John	343
	Green	Charles Acton	343
Turnout				33.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Brockley

Brockley (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Darren Johnson	1,583	50.0
	Green	Romayne Phoenix	1,223
	Green	Dean Walton	1,153
	Labour	Obajimi Adefiranye	928	29.3
	Labour	Rosemary Fooks	907
	Labour	Terence Scott	870
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Adderley	300	9.5
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Timson	291
	Liberal Democrats	David Cloke	250
	Conservative	Carolyn Freeman	247	7.8
	Conservative	Darren Larking	240
	Conservative	Maureen Wayling	170
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Tobias Abse	111	3.5
Turnout				28.5
	Green hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing

Catford South

Catford South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Massey	1,270	37.2
	Labour	Alan Smith	1,135
	Labour	Eva Stamirowski	1,055
	Conservative	James Cleverly	985	28.9
	Conservative	Andrew Lee	808
	Conservative	Thomas Philpott	757
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Hill	645	18.9
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick McKee	543
	Green	Frances Brackley	513	15.0
	Liberal Democrats	Adrien Smith	422
Turnout				31.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Crofton Park

Crofton Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacqueline Addison	1,163	37.8
	Labour	Sylvia Scott	898
	Labour	Jarman Parmar	836
	Green	Jeremy Hicks	700	22.7
	Green	Ulla Carlisle	690
	Green	James Wild	672
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Locke	613	19.9
	Conservative	Philip Akroyd	604	19.6
	Conservative	Paul Oakley	564
	Liberal Democrats	David Morpurgo	557
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Garrard	500
	Conservative	Gemma Townsend	479
Turnout				30.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Downham

Downham (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Fletcher	1,130	49.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Morris	1,117
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Carter	1,106
	Labour	Paul Jacob	590	25.9
	Labour	Roy Kennedy	586
	Labour	Paul Morris	554
	Conservative	Susannah Cleverly	403	17.7
	Conservative	Barbara Kennedy	330
	Conservative	James Cookson	326
	Green	Mark Cunningham	153	6.7
	Green	Lee Roach	149
	Green	Stephen Thomas	137
Turnout				26.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Evelyn

Evelyn (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Heidi Alexander	1,317	57.5
	Labour	Samuel Owolabi-Oluyole	1,073
	Labour	Crada Onuegbu	1,021
	Conservative	Rebecca Stevens	347	15.1
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Grainger	326	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	Corina Poore	304
	Green	Hanna Fiegenbaum	301	13.1
	Green	Julian Sanders	301
	Conservative	Lincoln Pedzeni	296
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Turner	278
	Conservative	Pauline Manangazira	263
	Green	Sydney Smith	261
Turnout				24.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Forest Hill

Forest Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Feakes	1,439	39.7
	Liberal Democrats	Arthur Peake	1,434
	Liberal Democrats	John Russell	1,176
	Labour	Katherine Holtman	846	23.4
	Labour	David Whiting	754
	Labour	David Michael	719
	Green	Regina Purrmann	631	17.4
	Conservative	David Hart	536	14.8
	Conservative	Raymond Squires	436
	Conservative	Neil Tritschler	410
	Lewisham Peoples Alliance	Sinna Mani	169	4.7
Turnout				32.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Grove Park

Grove Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Barrie Anderson	1,269	43.2
	Conservative	David Britton	1,130
	Conservative	Hilary Downes	1,017
	Labour	Mark Ingleby	892	30.4
	Labour	David Williams	771
	Labour	Eleanor Reeves	708
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Brooks	478	16.3
	Liberal Democrats	Brenda Pooley	378
	Liberal Democrats	Howard Robinson	340
	Green	John Green	299	10.2
	Green	Priscilla Cotterell	297
	Green	Christine Moores	287
Turnout				28.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Ladywell

Ladywell (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Michael Keogh	1,497	45.4
	Green	Susan Luxton	1,428
	Green	Ute Michel	1,217
	Labour	Abdeslam Amrani	1,073	32.6
	Labour	Pauline Morrison	984
	Labour	Carl Handley	957
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Dinsmore	436	13.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Kellett	361
	Liberal Democrats	Samantha Lyster	346
	Conservative	David Furze	288	8.7
	Conservative	Rachael Maguire	288
	Conservative	Terence Reeves	224
Turnout				35.4
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing

Lee Green

Lee Green (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Bentley	1,208	29.8
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Robson	924
	Liberal Democrats	Sven Griesenbeck	898
	Labour	James Mallory	826	20.4
	Conservative	Christine Allison	818	20.2
	Labour	Nora Riordan	706
	Labour	Ashtaq Arain	701
	Conservative	Joanna Britton	697
	Independent	Gerard Ambrose	696	17.2
	Conservative	Brian Chipps	689
	Green	Anna Baker	506	12.5
	Green	Andrea Hughes	388
	Green	Gaynor Evans	375
Turnout				35.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Lewisham Central

Lewisham Central (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Milton	1,340	41.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Edgerton	1,033
	Labour	Edward Mark	988	30.3
	Labour	Anthony Kendall	962
	Labour	James Stevenson	957
	Liberal Democrats	Akbar Aghamiri	949
	Green	Diana Birch	523	16.0
	Green	Andrew Smith	491
	Conservative	Maria McInnes	414	12.7
	Conservative	David Gold	391
	Green	Trottie Kirwan	387
	Conservative	Hans Hansen	363
Turnout				31.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

New Cross

New Cross (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Padmore	1,016	45.4
	Labour	Madeliene Long	941
	Labour	Paul Maslin	849
	Independent	Raymond Woolford	439	19.6
	Independent	Barbara Raymond	423
	Independent	Ann-Marie Powell	397
	Green	Sylvia Green	344	15.4
	Green	Deborah Stimson	253
	Green	Alexandra Rae	247
	Liberal Democrats	Heidi Degen	222	9.9
	Conservative	Darrien Pierce	219	9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Hawkins	214
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Hawkins	205
	Conservative	Deborah Wellard	190
	Conservative	James Wright	178
Turnout				23.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Perry Vale

Perry Vale (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Paschoud	1,078	31.4
	Labour	Susan Wise	1,064
	Labour	Alan Till	1,061
	Liberal Democrats	Henrietta Barnes	933	27.2
	Green	Jill Rutter	784	22.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Russell	783
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Redfern	656
	Conservative	Mark Burstow	634	18.5
	Conservative	Roger Pawley	538
	Conservative	Gwynfor Tippett	503
Turnout				29.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Rushey Green

Rushey Green (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Klier	990	37.1
	Labour	Peggy Fitzsimons	975
	Labour	John Muldoon	845
	Liberal Democrats	Valerie Cox	537	20.1
	Green	Andrew Winter	480	18.0
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Abrahams	445
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Labrom	395
	Conservative	Robert Curtis	337	12.6
	Conservative	Michael Lee	328
	Independent	Nicholas Ingham	324	12.1
	Conservative	Ruth Jeayes	273
Turnout				24.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Sydenham

Sydenham (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Chris Best	1,228	37.8
	Labour	Philip McDermott	1,033
	Labour	Marion Nisbet	1,010
	Conservative	Anthony Bays	800	24.6
	Conservative	Evett McAnuff	662
	Green	David Lea	653	20.1
	Conservative	Bruce de Saram	647
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Pluygers	568	17.5
	Liberal Democrats	Gerald Thompson	562
	Liberal Democrats	Vijay Naidu	484
Turnout				28.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Socialist Alternative	Ian Page	1,118	36.1
	Labour	Robin Cross	997	32.2
	Socialist Alternative	Christopher Flood	929
	Labour	Joan Millbank	856
	Labour	Paul Newing	829
	Socialist Alternative	Jessica Leech	821
	Green	Kathleen Easton	440	14.2
	Green	Nicholas Stone	427
	Green	Daniel Hudson	413
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Lawrence	303	9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Penwarden	248
	Conservative	Julie Kitson	235	7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Polling	202
	Conservative	Russell Wellard	192
	Conservative	Judy Willson	178
Turnout				29.7
	Socialist Alternative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Socialist Alternative gain from Local Education Action by Parents

Whitefoot

Whitefoot (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Houghton	1,346	40.1
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Priddey	1,209
	Liberal Democrats	Sera Kentman	1,115
	Labour	Jonathan Alltimes	894	26.7
	Labour	Carl Kisicki	742
	Labour	Olurotimi Ogunbadewa	741
	Conservative	James Cleverly	593	17.7
	Conservative	Nicholas Kent	438
	Conservative	Ronald Lee	435
	UKIP	Jens Winton	281	8.4
	Green	Alan Dingle	240	7.2
	Green	Charles Laurie	226
	Green	Simon Opie	170
Turnout				34.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing