More Than 300 Candidates Will Stand in the Upcoming Local Elections In Havering this May.
Local Democracy reporter Sebastian Mann writes in the Havering Daily on the local elections taking place in May.
Fifty-five seats across 20 wards will be up for grabs on 7th May, when every Londoner will go to the polls to elect their local representatives.
The leading Havering Residents Association (HRA), Conservatives, Labour, Greens and Reform will all field a full slate of 55 candidates.
The Liberal Democrats are putting forward 22 candidates, alongside six independents.
There are currently 25 HRA councillors, 14 Conservatives, eight Labour, and three Reform. There are also five independent councillors, aligned with small-scale resident groups.
Politics in the borough has been mercurial over the past four years.
The coalition between the HRA and Labour collapsed in the summer of 2024, after enough members defected to the HRA for it to form a minority administration.
Reform gained their first seat in the council last year when Conservative London Assembly member and Squirrels Heath ward councillor Keith Prince defected on the eve of the Tory national conference.
Council leader Ray Morgon announced last month he would be stepping down as leader in May but no successor has yet been announced.
All 55 seats are expected to be announced on 8th May. No seats are uncontested.
You can view the full list of candidates across each ward via the council’s website.
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Lets “Residents of Havering” unite behind Reform ,,,,,”One council and One Party” who will carry Havering’s Olympic Torch for change ,We are committed to improving the lives of our residents to be able to live in safety with lower crime rates with more policing in community’s to stop HMO built in areas that are already suffering with parking issues and to listen to the community on there needs ,,,,VOTE REFORM 7th May for our Havering Reformation REAL Change with real local resident councillors .
Whoever you vote for, make sure that we do not turn our borough over to the little Englander nationalists (they are not ‘patriots’) of Reform.
This motley collection of Tory deserters, ex-UKIP wannabes and closet fascists have shown, by the mess they have made of running Kent and Lancashire among others, that they cannot be trusted to run a whelk stall.
Remember that this is not a democratic party in the true sense of the word with policy decisions made by members, but a limited company with power concentrated in the hands of one man, the CEO Nigel Farage, a Trump-loving Putin admirer who was largely responsible for the calamitous act of economic self-harm of Brexit.
Vote for Labour, Tory, Lib-Dem, Green, HRA or whoever – but for the sake of Havering, OUR town, keep this bunch out of power.