Past election results

10,634 young people voted in the 2026 Young Mayor election, giving a turnout of 58.78%. Tyrese Gayle was elected Lewisham’s twenty-first Young Mayor.

Elected representatives

• Young Mayor: Tyrese Gale
• Deputy Young Mayor: Izzy McDonald

Young Cabinet 2026-27

The top 10 candidates will form a cabinet, working on key issues chosen by young people.

Alongside the Young Mayor and the Deputy Young Mayor, the other members of the 2025-26 cabinet will be:

• Mali Bernard
• Azaan Boukhari
• Arlo Evans
• Indiana Jones
• Rahma Mohamoud
• Olive Onasanya
• Hugo Ray
• Daniela Reyes

All candidates can join the Young Advisors group and Area Youth Forums.

In 2025, 9,914 young people voted, which was a turnout of 61.95% and Shane Grant, was elected Lewisham’s twentieth Young Mayor.

• Young Mayor: Shane Grant
• Deputy Young Mayor: Jimaine Lee

Brenda Dacres has been elected Mayor of Lewisham, after securing 51.5% of the votes, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a directly elected Mayor in London.

The election was held on 7 March, following the resignation of Damien Egan. The results were:

• DACRES Brenda - Labour and Co-operative Party – 21,576
• HAMILTON John Nicholas - Workers Party of Britain (WPB) – 2,378
• HERRON Michael - The Green Party – 6,835
• LONG Nick – Independent – 917 
• MAINES Chris - Liberal Democrats – 4,896 
• MARTIN Maureen Maud - Christian Peoples Alliance – 1,233 
• QADAR Siama - Local Conservatives – 3,784 

Turnout was 20.74%

• Mayor of Lewisham byelection results (pdf)

The official notices for this by-election can be found at the bottom of this page, including the Notice of Poll and the list of polling stations.

Results

An official statement of persons nominated can be found at the bottom of this page.

The statement includes the candidate’s address and the list of assentors (people who have nominated the candidate).

• Notice Of Election - Blackheath (pdf, 59.9KB)
• Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations - Blackheath (pdf, 13KB)
• Statement of Persons Nominated Blackheath For election on 4724 (pdf, 13.9KB)
• Notice of Election Agents Blackheath (pdf, 55KB)

Rejected votes

• total rejected votes: 87
• total eligible electorate: 11,343
• ballot papers received from polling stations: 3,326
• ballot papers returned by post: 762
• total ballot papers received (including rejected votes): 4,088
• turnout: 36.04%

(a) want of official mark 0
(b) voting more than once 4
(c) writing or mark by which the voter could be identified 0
(d) unmarked or void for uncertainty 83

• results (pdf)

Lewisham residents were able to vote in our 3 constituencies of:

• Lewisham East
• Lewisham North
• Lewisham West and East Dulwich

The official notices for each contest can be found at the bottom of this page.

Results

Turnout: 55.6%

Turnout: 59.9%

Turnout: 67.20%

An official statement of persons nominated can be found at the bottom of this page. The statement includes the candidate’s address and the list of assentors (people who have nominated the candidate). 

Notices

• Notice of Election - Lewisham East
• Notice of Election - Lewisham North
• Notice of Election - Lewisham West and East Dulwich

Notices of election agents

• Notice of election agents - Lewisham East
• Notice of election agents - Lewisham North
• Notice of election agents - Lewisham West and East Dulwich

Statements

• statement of persons nominated Lewisham East for election on 4 July 2024
• statement of persons nominated Lewisham North for election on 4 July 2024
• statement of persons nominated Lewisham West and East Dulwich for election on 4 July 2024

Elections were held on Thursday 2 May 2024 for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Assembly is divided into constituency members and London-wide members:

• official notice of election for the Greenwich and Lewisham constituency member contest
• official notices for other contests

Results

The candidates that were nominated for the Greenwich and Lewisham constituency London Assembly Member were:

Rejected ballot papers

• Notice of Poll - Statement of Persons Nominated and Situation of Polling Stations - Greenwich & Lewisham Constituency

Regional results

• find the London-wide results for the Mayor of London and London Assembly 2024 election on London Elects

Dawn Atkinson (Labour) was elected ward councillor for Deptford ward in the by election held 9 November 2023 with a total of 1596 votes.

• Labour Party (1596 votes) 71.2%
• Green Party (382 votes) 17.0%
• Conservative (174 votes) 7.8%
• Liberal Democrats (91 votes) 4.1%

Turnout was 20.88%.

• Deptford Ward

Mayor of Lewisham election

Read the result for the Mayor of Lewisham election held on Thursday 5 May 2022.

Local council election

Read the results for individual wards from the local council election held on Thursday 5 May 2022:

• Bellingham
• Blackheath
• Brockley
• Catford South
• Crofton Park
• Deptford
• Downham
• Evelyn
• Forest Hill
• Grove Park
• Hither Green
• Ladywell
• Lee Green
• Lewisham Central
• New Cross Gate
• Perry Vale
• Rushey Green
• Sydenham
• Telegraph Hill

Formal declarations

• Mayor of Lewisham
• Bellingham ward
• Blackheath ward
• Brockley ward
• Catford South ward
• Crofton Park ward
• Deptford ward
• Downham ward
• Evelyn ward
• Forest Hill ward
• Grove Park ward
• Hither Green ward
• Ladywell ward
• Lee Green ward
• Lewisham Central ward
• New Cross Gate ward
• Perry Vale ward
• Rushey Green ward
• Sydenham ward
• Telegraph Hill ward

And I do hereby declare the said LEN DUVALL, Labour Party is duly elected as constituency member of the Greater London Authority for the said constituency.

Constituency Returning Officer, Kim Wright.

Regional results

Find the London-wide results for the Mayor of London and London Assembly 2021 election on the London Elects website.