2022 City of London Corporation election
The 2022 City of London Corporation election took place on 24 March 2022 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. The election was postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background[edit]
Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years.[1] In the previous election in 2017, 95 seats were won by independent candidates and the remaining five by the Labour Party.
The election was originally scheduled for 18 March 2021, but was delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
It had been proposed that, due to the pandemic, the elections be combined with the 2021 United Kingdom local elections in the rest of England on 6 May. The City's Policy and Resources Committee recommended against this, and suggested July 2021 as an alternative date should the elections need to be postponed.[3][4]
Electoral system[edit]
Most residents of the twenty-five wards of the City of London live in the Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Portsoken and Queenhithe. Residents have one vote each, and businesses have a number of votes that scales with the number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that.[5]
Councillors are elected by multi-member first-past-the-post.
Campaign[edit]
The Russian state-owned VTB Bank, which had been sanctioned by the UK government over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, nonetheless received a share of votes.[6]