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Elections for the Croydon London Borough Council are held every four years to elect 70 councillors. The last ward boundary changes came into force at the 2018 local elections. Political control
Croydon Council has had 70 seats since the 1978 Council election, with 36 seats required for a majority. New election boundaries were put in place for the most recent council election in 2018 , which saw Labour maintain its majority with 41 seats with 44.5% of the vote to the Conservative Party's 29 seats with 40.1% of the vote.
Beulah was an electoral ward in the London Borough of Croydon from 1978 to 2002. The ward was first used in the 1978 elections and last used at the 1998 elections. It returned two councillors to Croydon London Borough Council.
The town of Croydon's first local authority was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1829. [4] They were superseded in 1849 by an elected local board. [5] [6] The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1883, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Croydon", generally known as the corporation, town council ...
Purley was an electoral ward in the London Borough of Croydon from 1965 to 2018. The ward was first used in the 1964 elections and last used at the 2014 elections. It returned three councillors to Croydon London Borough Council.
Shirley was an electoral ward in the London Borough of Croydon. The ward was originally created in 1965 and abolished in 1978. It was created again in 2002 and abolished in 2018. It returned three councillors to Croydon London Borough Council.
Croydon South was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council.The constituency elected one councillor for a four-year term in 1973, 1977 and 1981, with the final term extended for an extra year ahead of the abolition of the Greater London Council.
Croydon Town Hall on Katharine Street in central Croydon houses the committee rooms, the mayor's and other councillors' offices, electoral services and the arts and heritage services. The present Town Hall is Croydon's third. The first town hall is thought to have been built in either 1566 or 1609. [10]