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Labour won the Lambeth ward with 47% of the vote, ahead of the Greens' Sonia Winifred on 37%. Just over a quarter of voters turned out.
Key facts
- Molly Hartill won Myatt's Fields for Labour with 1,026 votes (47%)
- The Greens' Sonia Winifred was runner-up on 815 votes (37%)
- Turnout was 26.2%, with 2,197 of 8,376 registered voters taking part
- The result was declared at Lambeth Town Hall just after midnight
Labour’s Molly Hartill is the new councillor for Myatt’s Fields after winning the Lambeth by-election with 1,026 votes, 47% of those cast. Her win was announced at Lambeth Town Hall shortly after midnight, and the council confirmed the official figures on its website early on Friday 9 October.
Second place went to the Green Party’s Sonia Winifred, who polled 815 votes, or 37%.
Myatt’s Fields by-election full result
Hartill stood for the Labour and Co-operative Party. Behind the top two, the Liberal Democrat Christopher David French finished third on 189 votes (9%).
The other four candidates shared 167 votes. Conservative John Francis Hindson polled 74 and Reform UK’s Mark Mckee 58, each about 3% of the vote. Yemi Awolola of the Christian Peoples Alliance took 26 votes (1%), while Anya Krycek of The Socialist Party of Great Britain received 9.
Of the 8,376 people on the ward’s electoral register, 2,197 voted, a turnout of 26.2%. The council issued 716 postal votes.
Who stood in the Myatt’s Fields ward
The Greens won control of Lambeth Council for the first time in May’s local elections. Hartill, who works as head of office to Jim Dickson, came close to winning a seat in those elections but missed out. Winifred has campaigned for many years on behalf of the Windrush generation and on anti-racist causes.
Voters went to the polls on the same day as the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary by-election, where Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali won Holborn and St Pancras, finishing ahead of Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
Key questions
Who won the Myatt's Fields by-election?
Molly Hartill, standing for the Labour and Co-operative Party, won with 1,026 votes, 47% of the total.
How many people voted in Myatt's Fields?
2,197 of the ward's 8,376 registered voters took part, giving a turnout of 26.2%.
Who came second?
Sonia Winifred of the Green Party finished second with 815 votes, or 37%.
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