Conservatives have retaken control of Westminster Council from Labour in a dramatic local election result.
Tories took a total of 32 seats out of 54, making gains in Bayswater, West End and Lancaster Gate wards, while support for Labour declined mirroring other results across the capital.
While Labour held onto seats in its traditional strongholds, the party lost hundreds of votes to the Greens in several wards including in Queen’s Park, Church Street and Harrow Road.
Westminster Council was Conservative from its inception in 1964 until 2022, when Labour defied local political gravity to seize the local authority for the first time in its history.
Although short of the Tories’ 2018 result, in which the party held nearly two thirds of seats, the result is a landmark gain for the party, which also reclaimed Wandsworth council.
Reform failed to make any gains, with their top target Abbey Road comfortably held by the Conservatives despite defectors Alan Mendoza and Damien Moore standing in the ward.
Westminster comprises of 18 wards which each elect three councillors each.
Read on to see results by ward.
Abbey Road
Con HOLD (3)
Bayswater
Con GAIN from Lab (2)
Labour HOLD (1)
Church Street
Lab HOLD (3)
Harrow Road
Lab HOLD (3)
Hyde Park
Con GAIN from Lab (2)
Lab HOLD (1)
Knightsbridge and Belgravia
Con HOLD (3)
Lancaster Gate
Con HOLD (1)
Labour HOLD (2)
Little Venice
Con HOLD (3)
Maida Vale
Lab HOLD (3)
Marylebone
Con HOLD (3)
Pimlico North
Con HOLD (3)
Pimlico South
Lab HOLD (3)
Queen’s Park
Lab HOLD (3)
Regent’s Park
Con HOLD (3)
St James’s
Con HOLD (3)
Vincent Square
Con HOLD (2)
Con GAIN from Lab (1)
West End
Con GAIN from Lab (3)
Westbourne
Lab HOLD (3)