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Overhead editorial illustration of a monochrome UK local election ballot paper on a grey polling booth shelf, with five party-style icons across the top, two boxes marked with black Xs, and a hand holding a pen hovering over an empty box.
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14 minute read
  • Election 2026
  • Politics
  • Southfields
  • Thamesfield

What Wandsworth’s council would look like if votes actually decided it

The Greens would hold 10 seats. Instead they hold none. The arithmetic behind the result.
bySenior reporter
May 9, 2026
Pedestrians walking on a city sidewalk beside parked cars, brick office buildings, and a red bus on the street edge.
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2 minute read
  • Politics
  • Transport

Putney is gridlocked – on the road and at the count

Upper Richmond Road is closed in one direction this morning after an underground electrical fault opened a hole…
byPutney.news reporter
May 8, 2026
Malcolm Grimston, Kingmaker
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4 minute read
  • Election 2026
  • Politics

Grimston kingmaker as Wandsworth delivers hung council

No party won an overall majority at Wandsworth Council - the first time in the borough's modern history. One man now decides who runs it.
byPutney.news reporter
May 8, 2026
West Hill result
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17 minute read
  • Election 2026
  • Long read
  • Politics

Squeezed from both sides: how Labour lost Wandsworth

A remarkable election showed third parties surge across the borough — gutting Labour's vote and handing the Conservatives a one-seat lead that still wasn't enough for a majority.
byKieren McCarthy
May 8, 2026
Ballot box
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12 minute read
  • Election 2026
  • Politics

Vote today: here’s everything you need, and what might happen

Polls open at 7am. Find your polling station, what to bring, and what's at stake in Putney.
bySenior reporter
May 7, 2026
Poster reading: A vote for anyone other than the two local Conservative candidates Charlie Drakesmith and Daniel Ghossain, plus the Independent.
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1 minute read
  • Politics
  • West Hill

Putney’s Independent candidate gets help from unexpected source: the competition

West Hill Conservatives distributed a leaflet backing only two of its three candidates…
byPutney.news reporter
May 7, 2026
Putney Bridge junction ground to a halt. Pic: Nat.
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8 minute read
  • Politics
  • Thamesfield

For many Putney voters, there’s one issue on their mind: the dreaded junction

With the Conservatives confident of winning back council control, we look at its role in Putney's biggest policy mess.
byThe Editor
May 7, 2026
Wandsworth Council chamber
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3 minute read
  • Politics

Do the Conservatives have a woman problem?

Capable, established female councillors have been looked over and pushed out. Why?
byKieren McCarthy
May 7, 2026
Rob Alford's belongings on the pavement outside HMP Wandsworth. He has been sleeping there since his release on bail about four weeks ago. (Photograph: Mark Lawry / Wandsworth Prison Improvement Campaign)
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6 minute read
  • Community
  • Crime
  • Wandsworth Town

Wandsworth releases men into nothing. Some die. Some sleep at the gate.

Watchdog has no recommendations after one death; bail releases come with no support.
byPutney.news reporter
May 6, 2026
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19 minute read
  • Election 2026
  • Politics

Housing chief makes his case for re-election. We test it against the documents.

Cllr Aydin Dikerdem gave CJI 90 minutes. Here is what he said, and what the records show.
byKieren McCarthy
May 6, 2026
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