Who are Going to Be the New Councillors for Hammersmith?

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Polls vary on Labour’s likely performance in the borough

The election is this Thursday (7 May)

May 4, 2026

The voters of Hammersmith, along with the rest of London, will be going to the polls this Thursday (7 May) to elect a new council.

Hammersmith & Fulham has been held by Labour since 2014 with the Conservatives forming the official opposition. At present there are 36 Labour councillors, 10 Conservatives, two Green Party members and one Independent, with a vacancy in the Hammersmith Broadway ward.

The borough is widely predicted to remain in Labour’s hands, but this is the first local election in the capital that can be described as a genuine five-way contest and so the assumption on which projections are being made are yet to be tested.

The fragmentation of the votes between different parties also means that the margin of victory will tend to be smaller and street levels issues could be a more important determinant of who becomes a councillor as opposed to the expected vote share of their party.

The most recent poll on the London Elections was carried out by JP Partners along with the London School of Economics. An online panel of 2,022 voters was surveyed and the results suggested a grim day for Labour across the capital. However, this poll still gives Labour a comfortable lead in Hammersmith & Fulham with a 38.7% vote share and the Liberal Democrats pipping the Conservatives to second place with no Reform or Green surge expected.

An earlier YouGov/Politico poll held between 27 March and 21 April interviewed over 4,000 people with the final model incorporating the views of 1,520 people. Once again, the outcome did not paint a pretty picture for Labour over the rest of London and this time the poll sees the party with a much smaller vote share of 32% in Hammersmith & Fulham but still a comfortable margin ahead with the Greens seen as the main challenger on 22%.

PollCheck, which consolidates the results from third party polls and incorporates analysis of historical voting patterns to come up with a modelled estimate, has the highest expected vote share for Labour at 41.4% This is a 15.7 percentage point drop from 2022 but despite that, the party could end up increasing the number of seats that it currently holds as it reclaims those held by councillors who have left the party over the last term including two represented by councillors who defected to the Greens. The expected fall in the Conservative vote is only slightly less than Labour meaning it may struggle to win seat it would consider to be targets. No other party is expected to get a vote share of above 16% with the Reform placed fifth with just 11.3%

PollCheck is the only organisation that publishes ward level modelling. It has always been very difficult to make projections at this level as the number of voters is relatively small and factors such as a specific local issue or the performance, good or bad, of the incumbent councillor ran override broader trends. The predictions made by this organisation should therefore be regarded as very speculative, but we do believe them to be objective.

At the moment all the wards in the Hammersmith and West Kensington area are expected to be held comfortably by Labour with a margin of victory of at least 20 percentage points. The modelling suggests, that while Labour’s share of the vote is down quite sharply, it will remain capable of holding on to most of the seats it currently represents as votes for other parties have become fragmented.

Seats Covering the W6 and W14 Postcode Areas

Ward	Winner	Margin	Seats	Lab	Con	LD	Green	Ref	Others
Brook Green	Lab	23.2pp	2	40.4	17.2	13.8	15.1	12.3	1.3
Ravenscourt	Lab	24.8pp	2	43.1	10.9	18.4	15.5	12.1	0.0
Fulham Reach	Lab	28.4pp	3	48.2	11.9	9.1	19.8	11.0	0.0
Avonmore	Lab	28.5pp	2	45.3	9.7	16.8	14.8	12.1	1.3
Grove	Lab	32.3pp	2	51.5	4.0	19.3	14.6	10.6	0.0
West Kensington	Lab	35.7pp	3	53.1	6.9	17.4	9.7	12.9	0.0
Addison	Lab	39.0pp	2	55.4	2.5	16.4	14.5	11.2	0.0
Hammersmith Broadway	Lab	45.1pp	2	58.8	13.7	11.6	5.6	10.3	0.0

Source: PollCheck

Candidates in Local Wards

Addison

• Janet Burden – Liberal Democrats
• Jacolyn Daly – Labour
• Tara Douglas-Home – Conservatives
• Stephen James Hamilton – Conservatives
• Sharon Kudmani – Reform UK
• Philip Lane – Reform UK
• Olivia MacDonald – Green Party
• Ross Melton – Labour
• Stephen Morris – Liberal Democrats

Avonmore

• Joe Carlebach – Conservatives
• Andras Chiriliuc – Conservatives
• James Anthony Clarke – Reform UK
• Lorraine Vanessa Davison – Reform UK
• Andrew Duguid – Liberal Democrats
• Joe Eaton – Labour
• Maximilian Hess – Liberal Democrats
• Laura Janes – Labour
• Keith Mallinson – Green Party
• David Morton – Independent

Brook Green

• Stala Antoniades – Labour
• Dorothy Brooks – Liberal Democrats
• Humphrey Hawksley – Liberal Democrats
• Horatio Arthur Charles Lovering – Conservatives
• Elliott Jon Mears – Conservatives
• Keith Petts – Green Party
• Hannah Rolph – Reform UK
• Florent Sherifi – Labour
• Damien Smyth – Independent
• Olivia Spencer-Knott – Reform UK

Fulham Reach

• James Christopher Bennett – Reform UK
• David Campbell – Labour
• Tereza Cervenova – Green Party
• Caroline Ruth Ffiske – Conservatives
• Ash Goddard – Green Party
• Fuad Hendricks – Conservatives
• Anna Magryta-Urban – Labour
• Mark Richard Nelson – Conservatives
• Meher Oliaji – Liberal Democrats
• Jelena Sarmo – Liberal Democrats
• Shelly Sawyer – Reform UK
• Joe Soares – Reform UK
• Nikos Souslous – Labour

Grove

• Hannah Bulmer – Labour
• David Burridge – Liberal Democrats
• Stephen Cowan – Labour
• Robert Donnelly – Green Party
• Pema Grohs – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Ground – Conservatives
• Tom Hannah – Reform UK
• Joanna Moore – Reform UK
• Elizabeth St Clair-Legge – Conservatives

Hammersmith Broadway

• Maximillian Campbell – Conservatives
• Nikita Crocker – Green Party
• Nora Farah – Conservatives
• Olivia Feng – Reform UK
• David Gabra – Green Party
• Muj Khan – Reform UK
• Molly Mantle – Labour
• Callum Nimmo – Labour
• Meerav Shah – Liberal Democrats
• Conrad Wood – Liberal Democrats

Ravenscourt

• Jacquie Bach – Reform UK
• Alexander Trayton Baker – Conservatives
• Cath Baker – Reform UK
• Henrietta Bewley – Liberal Democrats
• Harry Brackley – Labour
• Louis Tudor Kemp – Liberal Democrats
• Natalie Lindsay – Labour
• Patrick James Read – Conservatives
• Matt Reynolds – Green Party

West Kensington

• David Amos – Reform UK
• Denise Baker – Green Party
• Gill Barnes – Liberal Democrats
• Jackie Borland – Conservatives
• Victoria Brignell – Labour
• Daryl Brown – Labour
• Florian Chevoppe-Verdier – Labour
• Jose Espinas – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Howe – Reform UK
• Hilary MacDonald – Reform UK
• Yaz Monerawela – Conservatives
• Harry Phibbs – Conservatives
• Sarah Taylor – Liberal Democrats

Polling stations

Polling stations will open at 7am and close at 10pm on polling day.

Your polling station address will be printed on your poll card, which is delivered by post before an election.

Use your postcode to find your polling station

Help for Disabled voters

Learn about accessible voting, reasonable adjustments, resources and support available for Disabled voters.

Accessible voting and reasonable adjustments.

Voter ID

You will need to show an accepted form of photo ID to vote in a polling station.

Check the list of accepted forms of photo ID (Electoral Commission website).

Audio ballot papers

Listen to audio descriptions of each ward's ballot paper.

Results

Once all votes have been verified and counted in the early hours of Friday 8 May, the results will be announced and a listing published on this website.

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