Upcoming Elections

• Haringey Council Elections 2022
• Election Timetable
• Election Notices
• Be a Councillor
• How to stand as a candidate
• Briefings for Candidates and Agents
• Election Meeting Rooms
• Further information

Haringey Council Elections 2022

Elections to Haringey Council will take place on Thursday 5 May 2022. Voters in the borough will choose who they want to represent them as their ward councillors.

Changes to wards:

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) carried out a statutory review of the council’s electoral arrangements (external link). Following the implementation of their recommendations, the following will come into force from May 2022:

• The number of wards will increase from 19 to 21
• The number of councillors will remain at 57
• 15 wards will have 3 councillors, and 6 wards will have 2 councillors

• Information on where to vote can be found here
• Information about the review of polling districts can be found here
• A map of the new wards can be found here

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Election Timetable

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Election Notices

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations (PDF, 1.46MB)

Wednesday 6 April 2022

• Statement of Persons Nominated (PDF, 174KB)
• Notice of Election Agents (PDF, 178KB)

Monday 21 March 2022

• Notice of Election - Monday 21 March 2022 (PDF, 42KB)

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Be a Councillor

Information about what is involved in being a councillor can be found on the following links:

• How to become a Haringey Councillor
• Be a councillor | Local Government Association (external link)

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How to stand as a candidate

If you want to become a councillor, you must stand as a candidate and be elected at a local council election.

Standing as a member of a political party

If you wish to stand as a candidate for a political party at the council elections, you must be a member of their local party. You must contact the local party for information on how to join their organisation and how they select members of their party to be candidates at an election.

Standing as an independent candidate

If you do not want to represent a political party, you can stand as an independent candidate. For guidance on being an independent councillor, please contact the Local Government Association Independent Group at Independent.GroupLGA@local.gov.uk or phone 020 7664 3224.

Nomination period

To become an election candidate, you have to complete and submit a nomination paper to the Returning Officer during the nomination period of the election. You will need to find 2 people, 1 to propose you (a nomination) and the other to second the nomination. You will also need to find a further 8 people to act as assentors to your nomination (ie they agree that you would be a suitable candidate and are prepared to sign a document to confirm this).

See the election timetable for the 2022 Haringey Council elections for deadline dates. Nomination papers for the 2022 council elections will be available to download from this website in February 2022.

After nominations have closed all validly nominated candidates will be invited to a meeting where they will receive more specific details about the election, such as arrangements for postal vote opening, polling day and the count.

Further information

If you are interested in being a candidate in the 2022 Haringey Council elections, please email elections@haringey.gov.uk to be added to the mailing list information about this.

Read The Electoral Commission's guidance for local government election candidates and agents (external link).

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Briefings for Candidates and Agents

The Returning Officer will be providing briefings for any person wishing to stand as a candidate at the 2022 Haringey Council elections.

Further details will be posted here once the dates have been confirmed. Please email elections@haringey.gov.uk to be added to the mailing list for this.

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Election Meeting Rooms 

Candidates are entitled to use rooms in publicly funded buildings to hold public meetings from the last date of publication of the Notice of Election through to the day before polling day. 

The availability of meeting rooms at any of the venues is dependent on pre-existing bookings. 

• Meeting rooms and Booking details (PDF, 139KB)

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Further information

For further information on standing for election, including details of qualifications and disqualifications, please see the Electoral Commission’s website (external link).

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