Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council elections Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council elections Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council elections are held every four years for all 54 councillor seats in the 18 wards that make up the Borough Council. By-elections are held in individual wards when vacancies arise outside the four-year cycle. Since 1964 political control of the council has been held by the following parties: There were no by-elections. Following the discovery of a series of voting errors, the High Court on 5 August 1976, declared the Liberal candidate in place of the Conservative. The revised votes are recorded here. The by-election was called
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in the borough which use the TW code, and the Kingston Vale area in the north-east which has a London SW15 postcode. The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 census in Kingston upon Thames. The borough includes the whole of the Kingston and Surbiton Westminster Parliamentary Constituency and part of the Richmond Park Constituency, both constituencies were created in 1997. The previous constituencies re-arranged to form these two had been essentially Conservative. In 1997 the Liberal Democrats won both seats. Dr Jenny Tonge took Richmond Park constituency and in 2005 Susan Kramer became