The 2026 London local elections was a mixed bag for the major parties. I have five boroughs in London, the results of which give us some ideas on where the major parties stand, that being the Labour party, the Conservative party, and the Liberal Democrats, and what their future may be like in a world increasingly dominated by the Greens and Reform. Red voting Redbridge Here, the Labour party maintained control of the council with 43 out of 63 seats. This was down 15 from the

Earlier this month, I wrote about the Farage plan to secede several outer London boroughs, such as Bromley, Havering, Barking & Dagenham, or Bexley, away from the capital should they win in those councils. Opinion polling had Reform UK on track to be the largest party in several councils, if not in control, but that polling was wrong. Reform massively underperformed in London compared to the rest of the country. In the end, they only managed to gain 80 or so seats across the

There is a clear winner in London, the Greens. In September last year, the party elected former deputy leader Zack Polanski to be their sole leader, breaking from a tradition of co-leaders dating back to 2017. He had an impressive social media campaign and, once in office, skyrocketed party membership from nearly 70,000 to over 230,000 in less than a year, overtaking the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and putting them close to the Labour party who recorded fewer than 25

Why the 2026 London results are a lens into the future of British politics