2006 Lambeth London Borough Council election

2006 Lambeth Council election
4 May 2006
All 63 council seats
  First party Second party
 
Lib
Leader Steve Reed Peter Truesdale
Party Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader since September 2002 1998
Leader's seat Brixton Hill Bishop's
Last election 28 seats, 36.6% 28 seats, 33.3%
Seats won 39 17
Seat change 11 11
Popular vote 25,068 19,207
Percentage 35.4% 27.1%
Swing 1.2% 6.2%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Con
Leader John Whelan Becca Thackray
Party Conservative Green
Leader since 1998 4 May 2006
Leader's seat Thurlow Park Herne Hill
Last election 7 seats, 16.2% 0 seats, 11.5%
Seats won 6 1
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 12,271 11,311
Percentage 17.3% 16.0%
Swing 1.1% 4.5%
Map of the results of the 2006 Lambeth council election. Conservatives in blue, Greens in green, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow.
Leader of Largest Party before election

Peter Truesdale
Liberal Democrats

 Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Steve Reed
Labour

Elections to Lambeth London Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election with no boundary changes since the last election in 2002. The Labour Party gained control of the council, replacing the Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition that had run the council since the previous election.

The election was notable for the Labour Party managing to win control of the borough despite a marginal fall in its overall percentage share of the vote. Labour taking Lambeth was also against the trend of the 2006 local election body elections which saw Labour lose control of 18 councils with a loss of 319 councillors.

Also significant was the election of Lambeth's first Green Party councillor, one of many gains for the Party across London. The Green Party took 16% of the vote across the borough.

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