Labour still searching for council election candidates
Party has lots of members, but is struggling to get 55 people to stand in the Town Hall ballots
Thursday, 23rd October — By Richard Osley
Labour’s local elections winning team in 2022 – but the party is expecting a tougher challenge in May
LABOUR party organisers are still searching for enough people to fill a full slate of candidates for next May’s boroughwide council elections.
Emails sent out to Camden members last week urged them to consider putting their name forward. The party has roughly 4,000 members in the borough and needs to find just 55 people who either live or work here to stand as candidates.
While Labour secured huge majorities in Camden the last two times residents were asked to vote on who should run the council, its leader Councillor Richard Olszewski has already forecast a tougher test this time, citing the national picture which has seen the party struggling in the polls. The message last week confirmed that the applications process had been reopened.
The party has a rule which says that there cannot be an all-male line-up of candidates in any ward, and have made a special appeal for more women to come forward
. While Labour is not predicted to lose overall control in Camden, it recently suffered a landslide loss to the Lib Dems in the West Hampstead by-election and has seen the Green Party now polling well nationally.
The elections are due to take place on Thursday May 7, 2026.
