2025 City of London Corporation election
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The 2025 City of London Corporation election will take place on 19/20 March 2025 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. This election will be held in the same year as the 2025 United Kingdom local elections, though it is held several months earlier than most other local elections.
Background
[edit]Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years.[1] In the last election in 2022, 78 seats were won by independents, 5 by Labour, and the remaining 17 by localist groups.[2]
As the prior election was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[3] this election comes three years after it.
Electoral system
[edit]Most residents of the twenty-five wards of the City of London live in the Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Portsoken and Queenhithe. Residents have one vote each, and businesses have votes that scales with their number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that.[4]
Councillors are elected by multi-member first-past-the-post.
Council make-up
[edit]Following the 2022 election, there were six by-elections to replace councillors who had passed away or resigned. Two were held in 2022, seeing another independent elected in both Bridge and Bridge Without and Cordwainer.[5] Three were held in 2023: Castle Baynard saw another independent elected (it is unclear whether he is part of the Castle Baynard Independents, having stood for them in 2022);[5][6] Labour gained a seat following the death of an independent councillor in Cripplegate;[7] and a Temple and Farringdon Together councillor was elected unopposed in Farringdon Without. One by-election was held in 2024 on the day of the general election, with another independent elected in Farringdon Within.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ward elections - City of London". www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. City of London Corporations. Archived from the original on 12 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Local Elections Archive Project - 2022 - City of London Corporation". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Forthcoming elections". City of London Corporation. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ "The place where businesses and their office workers vote". BBC News. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Election results". City of London. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
- ^ "Castle Baynard". castle-baynard.org.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
- ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Cripplegate Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Election results". City of London. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
