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
London Borough of Newham the former boundary between the two. North Woolwich also became part of the borough (previously being in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, south of the river Thames in the County of London) along with a small area west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking. "Newham" was devised for the borough as an entirely new name. The area of the modern borough was at one time occupied by a territory called 'Ham'. The first known written use of the term, as 'Hamme', is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, and again in