Portsoken (electoral ward)

Portsoken Ward is an electoral district in the City of London, England.^[1] (See also Portsoken). It returns an Alderman and four Councilmen^[2] to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.

2017 Aldermanic by-election

Michael Bear became Alderman in 2005 and resigned in 2017. This led to the first Aldermanic election in the City of London Corporation contested by the Labour Party.^[3][4] The election was won by Prem Goyal, founder of the All People's Party,^[5] although he stood as an independent.^[6]

Portsoken Ward^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Prem Goyal	228	58.31
	Labour	William Campbell-Taylor	143	36.57
	Independent	David Barker	20	5.12
	Independent	Anthony Samuels	2	0.51
Turnout			396	61.68

2022 Common Council election

The Common Council election in Portsoken Ward recorded the highest turnout in the 2022 Citywide Common Council Elections with 57.6% of the electorate casting their vote. The average turnout across the rest of the City of London was much lower at 36.5%. Two incumbent councillors, Munsur Ali and Jason Paul Pritchard, who were elected as Labour candidates in 2017, stood jointly and were both re-elected.^[8] John Fletcher and Henry Jones stood jointly and were both re-elected.^[9] Changes in voteshare are by party for the Labour candidates and by candidate for independent candidates who previously stood as independents.

Portsoken (4 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Fletcher*	255	21.8	4.6
	No description	Munsur Ali*	254	21.7	N/A
	No description	Jason Paul Pritchard*	239	20.5	N/A
	Independent	Henry Jones*	213	18.2	1.9
	Labour	Lana Joyce	114	9.8	10.2
	Labour	Dominic Hauschild	56	4.8	14.1
	Women's Equality	Alison Smith	37	3.2	N/A
Turnout			1,168	57.6	6.9
	Independent hold
	No description gain from Labour		Swing	–
	No description gain from Labour		Swing	–
	Independent hold

List of Aldermen representing Portsoken ward

• 1891–1921 Sir Marcus Samuel (Lord Mayor 1902–1903). He became the first Viscount Bearsted in 1925, two years before his death in 1927.^[10]
• 1921–33 Isidore Jacobs, except 19 July–20 September 1927 when there was no alderman for Portsoken^[10]
• 1933–44 Sir Samuel Joseph (Lord Mayor 1942–1943)^[10]
• 1944–46 Edmund Dutton^[10]
• 1946–49 Keith Joseph, son of Sir Samuel Joseph^[10]
• 1949–84 Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen (Lord Mayor 1960–61)^[10]
• 1984–2006 Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken (Lord Mayor 1998–99)^[10]
• 2006–17 Sir Michael Bear (Lord Mayor 2010–2011)^[10]
• 2017–present Prem Goyal^[10]