| Election Name: | Croydon Council Election, 2006 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2002 Croydon London Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2002 |
| Election Date: | 4 May 2006 |
| Next Election: | 2010 Croydon London Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
| Seats For Election: | All 70 seats to Croydon London Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 36 |
| Leader1: | Mike Fisher |
| Leader Since1: | 2005 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leaders Seat1: | Shirley |
| Last Election1: | 32 seats, 45.2% |
| Seats1: | 43 |
| Seat Change1: | 11 |
| Popular Vote1: | 49,341 |
| Percentage1: | 44.8% |
| Swing1: | 0.4% |
| Leader2: | Tony Newman |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader Since2: | 2005 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Woodside |
| Last Election2: | 37 seats, 38.0% |
| Seats2: | 27 |
| Seat Change2: | 10 |
| Popular Vote2: | 28,534 |
| Percentage2: | 25.9% |
| Swing2: | 12.1% |
| Map Size: | 330px |
| Leader of the Council | |
| Posttitle: | Elected Leader |
| Before Election: | Tony Newman |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Mike Fisher |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Elections to Croydon Council in London, England were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election. The Labour Party lost control of the council to the Conservative Party for the first time since 1994.
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| Party | Seats | Current Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 | 2006[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conservatives | 31 | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Labour | 37 | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lib Dems | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are 24 wards which represent Croydon Council. All Croydon Council seats were up for re-election for the first time since the 2002 elections, during the election on 4 May 2006. Previously Labour held control of the council. In the election, the Conservatives took 10 seats from Labour and 1 from the Liberal Democrats. Since the defection of a Labour councillor to the Conservatives,[2] giving the newly elected council's political composition as:[3]
| width=180 | Ward | width=160 | Members elected in 2006 |
| Addiscombe | Russell Jackson (Con) | ||
| Andrew Price (Con) | |||
| Maria Garcia de la Huerta (Con) | |||
| Ashburton | Lindsay Frost (Con) | ||
| Eddy Arram (Con) | |||
| Avril Slipper (Con) | |||
| Bensham Manor | Raj Rajendran (Lab) | ||
| Greta Sohoye (Lab) | |||
| Alison Butler (Lab) | |||
| Broad Green | Stuart Collins (Lab) | ||
| Mike Selva (Lab) | |||
| Manju Shahul-Hameed (Lab) | |||
| Coulsdon East | Christopher Wright (Con) | ||
| Brian Udell (Con) | |||
| Terry Lenton (Con) | |||
| Coulsdon West | David Osland (Con) | ||
| Gavin Barwell (Con) | |||
| Brian Cakebread (Con) | |||
| Croham | Maria Gatland (Con) | ||
| Michael Neal (Con) | |||
| Jason Perry (Con) | |||
| Fairfield | Vidhi Mohan (Con) | ||
| Susan Winborn (Con) | |||
| David Fitze (Con) | |||
| Fieldway | Simon Hall (Lab) | ||
| Carole Bonner (Lab) | |||
| Heathfield | Margaret Mead (Con) | ||
| Helen Pollard (Con) | |||
| Enley Taylor (Con) | |||
| Kenley | Jan Buttinger (Con) | ||
| Steve O'Connell (Con) | |||
| Steve Hollands (Con) | |||
| New Addington | Brenda Kirby (Lab) | ||
| George Ayres (Lab) | |||
| Norbury | Maggie Mansell (Lab) | ||
| Shafi Khan (Lab) | |||
| Sherwan Chowdhury (Lab) | |||
| Purley | Graham Bass (Con) | ||
| Derek Millard (Con) | |||
| Donald Speakman (Con) | |||
| Sanderstead | Lynne Hale (Con) | ||
| Timothy Pollard (Con) | |||
| Yvette Hopley (Con) | |||
| Selhurst | Timothy Godfrey (Lab) | ||
| Toni Letts (Lab) | |||
| Gerry Ryan (Lab) | |||
| Selsdon and Ballards | Dudley Mead (Con) | ||
| Sara Bashford (Con) | |||
| Phil Thomas (Con) | |||
| Shirley | Janet Marshall (Con) | ||
| Richard Chatterjee (Con) | |||
| Mike Fisher (Con) | |||
| South Norwood | Susan Bennett (Con) | ||
| Luke Clancy (Con) | |||
| Jane Avis (Lab) | |||
| Thornton Heath | Pat Clouder (Lab) | ||
| Matthew Kyeremeh (Lab) | |||
| Louisa Woodley (Lab) | |||
| Upper Norwood | Robert Askey (Con) | ||
| Pat Ryan (Lab) | |||
| George Filbey (Con) | |||
| Waddon | Tony Harris (Con) | ||
| Jonathan Driver (Con) | |||
| Simon Hoar (Con) | |||
| West Thornton | Raj Chandarana (Lab) | ||
| Bernadette Khan (Lab) | |||
| Mike Mogul (Con) | |||
| Woodside | Karen Jewitt (Lab) | ||
| Tony Newman (Lab) | |||
| Paul Scott (Lab) | |||