Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
	Coat of arms
	Council logo
Type
Type	London borough council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Houses	Unicameral
History
Founded	1 April 1965
Preceded by	Bethnal Green Borough Council; Poplar Borough Council; Stepney Borough Council
New session started	3 May 2018 (Municipal year 2018/19)
Leadership
Executive mayor	Lutfur Rahman, Aspire ; since 5 May 2022
Speaker of Council	Victoria Obaze ; since May 2019
Chief executive	Will Tuckley ; since 27 August 2015
Structure
Seats	45 councillors
Council political groups	Executive (24) Aspire (24); Opposition (21) Labour (19); Conservative (1); Green (1);
Length of term	Executive mayor elected every four years; Whole council elected every four years
Elections
Council voting system	Plurality-at-large
Mayor voting system	Supplementary vote
Last Council election	5 May 2022
Next Council election	2026
Meeting place
	Tower Hamlets Town Hall; 160 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BJ
Website
	www.towerhamlets.gov.uk
Constitution
	Council constitution

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London, England. The council is unusual in that its executive function is controlled by a directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, currently Lutfur Rahman.

Following the May 2014 election, Tower Hamlets London Borough Council was composed of 22 Labour Party members, 19 Tower Hamlets First members and 5 Conservative Party members. Following the removal of Lutfur Rahman as mayor and Alibor Choudhury as councillor, Tower Hamlets First was removed from the Electoral Commission register of political parties, with Labour's Sabina Akhtar replacing Choudhury as councillor for Stepney Green and John Biggs replacing Rahman as Mayor, following the by-elections in June 2015. Lutfur Rahman was again elected as Mayor in the 2022 London Borough elections, beating incumbent Labour Mayor John Biggs.

The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced three local authorities: Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council, Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council and Stepney Metropolitan Borough Council.

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