The 2025 City of London Corporation election was held on 20 March 2025, prior to most other 2025 United Kingdom local elections, to elect Commoners to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.
The City of London is the oldest continuously-running municipal democracy in the world.
Elections to the Court of Common Council, the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation which governs the City of London, take place every four years. At the last election in 2022 (delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic) 78 seats were won by Independents, 5 by Labour, and the remaining 17 by localist groups.
Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Farringdon Without, Portsoken and Queenhithe are the more resident-populated of the twenty-five City Wards. Residents each have one vote, and businesses are allotted votes scaled in accordance with the number of employees. Businesses can appoint one employee as a voter for every five staff up to ten voters, with an additional voter per fifty staff beyond that.
Common Councillors (aka Commoners) are elected by block voting.
On the day before polling day, in this case the 19 March, wardmote meetings are held in which residents and workers are able to ask candidates questions.
Since the 2022 election, six by-elections have been held to replace Commoners who resigned from or died in office.
Two such by-elections were held in 2022, with Independents being elected for both Bridge and Bridge Without and Cordwainer.
Three were held in 2023, when an Independent was elected for Castle Baynard; Labour gained a seat on Common Council following the death of an Independent in Cripplegate; and Temple & Farringdon Together returned a Commoner unopposed for Farringdon Without.
The only by-election in 2024 was held on the same day as the general election, when an Independent was elected for Farringdon Within.
Below displays the current affiliation of Commoners on the City Common Council. Political party affiliations are shown. Some independents may align with slates of candidates for their ward. All parties are running candidates in the upcoming election.
Temple & Farringdon Together and Castle Baynard Independents are registered political parties, and hence are not included in this section.
The following groups are running a slate of candidates in a particular ward:
Prior to the election being held, 45 of the 100 councillors were elected uncontested across 14 wards, with some wards seeing candidates pull out.
Asterisks denote incumbents. The results are compared to the 2022 elections.