Elections for

London Borough of Hackney The London Borough of Hackney ( ) is a London boroughs, London borough in Inner London, England. The historical and administrative heart of Hackney is Mare Street, which lies north-east of Charing Cross. The borough is named after Hackney, Lond ...

Council were held on Thursday 6 May 2010. The whole council was up for election. Hackney is divided into 19 wards, each electing 3 councillors, so a total of 57 seats were up for election.

Summary results

At the 2010 council election, Labour won five seats from the Conservatives. These included two in New River; two in

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and one in Springfield. A former Green Party seat (in Clissold) was also lost to Labour. The Conservatives remain the largest opposition party with four seats (down from nine in 2006). The election attracted national attention when, along with some other constituencies in the country, up to 270 people failed to be issued with ballot papers by the deadline of 10pm. This meant that they could not vote, and residents were angry when turned away from polling stations. The Council apologised unreservedly, blaming the high turnout for the problem.

Election for Mayor

The incumbent,

Jules Pipe Julian Benjamin Pipe (born May 1965) is a British politician who currently serves as the Deputy Mayor of London for Planning, Regeneration and Skills. Pipe was the first directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Hackney between his ele ...

was elected for his third term as elected mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, at the first ballot, with a majority of 32,545. ;Results for each candidate * Votes cast: 93,770 * Overall Turnout for the Election of Mayor: 58% (34.3% in 2006, 26.34% in 2002) * Result: Labour Hold Under the

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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.

Wards

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(LB Hackney) accessed 8 May 2010 * Brownswood - Brian Bell, Oli de Botton, Feryal Demerci (all Labour) * Cazenove - Dawood Akhoon, Abraham Jacobson. Ian Sharer (all Liberal Democrats) * Chatham - Luke Akehurst, Sally Mulready, Guy Nicholson (all Labour) * Clissold -Karen Alcock, Wendy Mitchell, Linda Smith (all Labour) *

Dalston Dalston () is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is northeast of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas i ...

- Michelle Gregory, Sophie Linden, Angus Mulready-Jones (all Labour) * De Beauvoir -Robert Chapman, Tom Ebbutt, Gulay Icoz (all Labour) *

Hackney Central Hackney Central is a sub-district of Hackney, London, Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England and is four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross. The Hackney Central area is focused on Mare Street and the retail area ...

- Alan Laing, Samantha Lloyd, Vincent Stops (all Labour) *

Hackney Downs Hackney Downs is a park and an area of historically common land in the Lower Clapton area of the London Borough of Hackney. The name is sometimes also used to apply to the neighbourhood around the park. Hackney Downs Park The Downs open space ...

- Michael Desmond, Rick Muir, Alex Russell (all Labour) *

Haggerston Haggerston is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney. It is in East London and part of the East End of London, East End. There is an Haggerston (ward), electoral ward called Haggerston within the borough. H ...

- Barry Buitekant, Jonathon McShane, Ann Munn (all Labour) *

Hoxton Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. It was Historic counties of England, historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. Hoxton lies north-east of the City of London, is considered to be a part of London's East End ...

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, Clay McKenzie, Carole Williams (all Labour) * King's Park - Julius Nkafu, Sharon Patrick, Saleem Siddiqui (all Labour) * Leabridge - Linda Kelly, Deniz Oguzkanli, Ian Rathbone (all Labour) *

- Bernard Aussenberg (Conservative), Edward Brown (Labour), Daniel Stevens (Labour) * New River - Michael Jones (Labour), Maureen Middleton (Conservative), Sean Mulready (Labour) * Queensbridge - Emma Plouviez, Tom Price,

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(all Labour) * Springfield - Margaret Gordon (Labour), Michael Levy (Conservative), Simche Steinberger (Conservative) * Stoke Newington Central - Susan Fajan-Thomas, Rita Krishna, Louisa Thomson (all Labour) *

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- Kate Hanson, Daniel Kemp, Geoff Taylor (all Labour) *

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- Anntoinette Bramble, Chris Kennedy, Jessica Webb (all Labour)

Detailed results

Brownswood

Cazenove

Chatham

Clissold

Dalston

De Beauvoir

Hackney Central

Hackney Downs

Haggerston

Hoxton

King's Park

Leabridge

Lordship

New River

Queensbridge

Springfield

Stoke Newington Central

Victoria

Wick

References

External links

Hackney council 2010 results
{{United Kingdom local elections, 2010 Council elections in the London Borough of Hackney Hackney