| Election Name: | 2006 Lewisham Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Previous Election: | 2002 Lewisham Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2002 |
| Next Election: | 2010 Lewisham Council election |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
| Seats For Election: | All 54 council seats to Lewisham London Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 28 |
| Election Date: | 4 May 2006 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats1: | 26 |
| Seat Change1: | 19 |
| Popular Vote1: | 17,869 |
| Percentage1: | 32.7% |
| Swing1: | 6.3% |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats2: | 17 |
| Seat Change2: | 13 |
| Popular Vote2: | 13,367 |
| Percentage2: | 24.4% |
| Swing2: | 5.8% |
| Party3: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 5 |
| Popular Vote3: | 10,443 |
| Percentage3: | 19.1% |
| Swing3: | 3.0% |
| Party4: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 9,894 |
| Percentage4: | 18.1% |
| Swing4: | 1.7% |
| Party5: | Socialist Party (England and Wales) |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 1,118 |
| Percentage5: | 2.0% |
| Swing5: | 0.1% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Party: | Labour |
| After Party: | No overall control |
Elections to Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election.
Lewisham local elections are held every four years, with the next due in 2010.[1] [2]
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The Green Party won all three seats in the Brockley and Ladywell wards and the Socialist Alternative won two seats in the Telegraph Hill ward.[3]
| Lewisham Mayoral Election Results 2006 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Party | 1st Preference Votes | % | 2nd Preference Votes¹ | % | Final | %² | ||
| 22,155 | 37.7 | 2,974 | ? | 25,129 | 57.1 | ||||
| Christopher Maines | 12,398 | 21.1 | 6,491 | ? | 18,889 | 42.9 | |||
| 10,790 | 18.4 | ? | ? | N/A | |||||
| Michael Keogh | 7,168 | 12.2 | ? | ? | N/A | ||||
| John Hamilton | 4,823 | 8.2 | ? | ? | N/A | ||||
| Sinna Mani | Lewisham Peoples Alliance | 1,366 | 2.3 | ? | ? | N/A | |||
¹Under the Supplementary Vote system, if no candidate receives 50% of 1st choice votes, 2nd choice votes are added to the result for the top two 1st choice candidates. If a ballot gives a first and second preference to the top two candidates in either order, then their second preference is not counted, so that a second preference cannot count against a first.
²Percentage figures are not officially used on the final votes, they are produced here for illustration and are calculated by the candidates final vote divided by the total of final votes.