The Green party has won a majority of the seats on Hackney Council. The Conservatives have won two wards: Springfield and Stamford Hill West. Newly-elected mayor Zoë Garbett has been re-elected as a ...

Voter turnout for mayoral contest was 40.98 percent – the highest since 2010, when the local elections at the same time as a general election. Turnout across wards was also high, as the graph below ...

The Green party candidate Zoë Garbett has won the Hackney mayoral contest with 35,720 votes.

Garbett won the mayoralty in a landslide election, winning by a margin of almost 10,000 votes. The Greens secured 46.88 per cent of the vote – amounting to 35,720 ballots – whilst Labour fell to 35.26 ...

A man has been arrested over a suspected antisemitic hate crime after threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road. The incident took place on board a 254 bus in ...