Lewisham elections live: mayor and council results

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We'll get the full voting figures for each ward published with more pictures as soon as we can.

20:21 Final count is 40 Green councillors and 14 Labour.

20:20 Grove Park declares two Labour councillors and one Green.

20:15 Catford South declares two Labour councillors - Oliver Matejka and Eva Stamirowski and one Green councillor Briony Edwards.

Blackheath declares two Green councillors - Rebecca Jones and Tracey Martin, and one Labour - Pauline Dall.

19:35 Brockley declares three Green councillors - Ade Adewunme, Rotimi Skyers and El Fry.

Nine seats left to declare.

19.27 Three more Green candidates for Perry Vale - Maria McKenna, Justin Calcutt Cheadle and Mike Podmore.

19:20 Evelyn ward declared three Green councillors - Leni Cadman, Rudi Schmidt and Dylan Cooper-Stubbs.

Telegraph Hill declares three Greens - Kate Anderson, Becky Sanders and Nick Torry.

Greens now have 30 councillors and Labour have nine.

19:17 Forest Hill has declared two Green councillors - Fergus Navaratnam-Blair and Annabelle Roberts and one Labour councillor Peter Bernards.

Hither Green has declared two Labour councillors - Yemise Anifowose and Kim Powell and one Green councillor, Eleanora Anello.

19:00 Crofton Park results

Who are your new councillors? Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn

Results for Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsLucy Giles

18:53 Lee Green results

Who are your new councillors? Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate, Perry Vale

Results for Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate and Perry Vale wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

18:39 Lee Green has elected Labour councillors Ese Erheriene and James Rathbone and Green councillor Laura Sessions.

18:27 Results for Rushey Green

Who are your new councillors? Rushey Green, Sydenham, Telegraph Hill

Results for Rushey Green, Sydenham, Telegraph Hill .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsLucy Giles

18:17 Lee Green has elected two Labour councillors and one Green, names to follow.

Crofton Park has elected three Green councillors. There will be a by-election in the ward as one elected councillor Liam Shrivastava has been elected mayor.

18:16 Deptford results.

Who are your new councillors? Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn

Results for Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsLucy Giles

17.54 Deptford has elected three Green candidates - Hau-Yu Tam, Heather Farnworth and Daniel Jenkins.

Rushey Green has elected three Green councillors - Daniel Dream, Samantha Gardiner and Claire Wills.

17.22 Sydenham results here:

Who are your new councillors? Rushey Green, Sydenham, Telegraph Hill

Results for Rushey Green, Sydenham, Telegraph Hill .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsLucy Giles

17:08 Three Green councillors elected for Sydenham, Corin Ashwell, Tanya Dunne and Markus Michelucci.

Sydenham new Green councillor Corin Ashwell expressed appreciation for departing Labour councillors.

16.43 Find Downham vote count here

Who are your new councillors? Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn

Results for Crofton Park, Deptford, Downham, Evelyn wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

16.28 Three Labour councillors elected for Downham, Andre Bourne, Gloria Lambert-Morris and Oana Olaru-Holmes.

16:17 Ladywell voting here

Who are your new councillors? Forest Hill, Grove Park, Hither Green, Ladywell

Results for Forest Hill, Grove Park, Hither Green and Ladywell .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

16.04 Ladywell results, three more Green councillors elected - Robin McGhee, Shireen Asaw and Ed Sutton.

Councillors spoke in appreciation of work of previous Labour councillors.

15:35 Bellingham results. Gavin Moore is the first Labour councillor elected so far, while Nadja Penfold is the fifth Green councillor.

Who are your new councillors? Bellingham, Blackheath, Brockley, Catford South

Results for Bellingham, Blackheath, Brockley, Catford South ... as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

15.04 Full results for Lewisham Central here, turnout for the ward was 38.4%

New Green councillor Mark Kowalski gave appreciation for previous Labour councillors in the ward and their achievements, after a very close result.

Who are your new councillors? Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate, Perry Vale

Results for Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate and Perry Vale wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

14.38 Two more Green councillors selected for Lewisham Central. A close result, Labour councillor and cabinet member Edison Huynh lost his seat by just 36 votes.

13.43 Lewisham Central coming in.

13.38 Full details of New Cross Gate

Who are your new councillors? Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate, Perry Vale

Results for Lee Green, Lewisham Central, New Cross Gate and Perry Vale wards .. as they are announced.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

13.14 - Two Green councillors elected for New Cross Gate - Ruth Persian and Wellington Gil.

12:51 false alarm no results yet ..

12:36 results coming in now ..

12.02 Count still in progress, no results yet. First ward to declare will be Bellingham (2 councillors).

9.00 Results for ward councillors expected from 11am onwards.

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16.45 Mayoral results declared

‘We made Lewisham Green’ - Liam Shrivastava is new Lewisham mayor

Ecstatic Greens celebrate historic win, taking mayor from Labour for first time since role established in 2002.

Salamander NewsDorothy Stein

15.25 Returning officer confirms that 42.14% of Lewisham's electorate of 207,948 have voted.

14.00 We're reporting the results as they come in for Lewisham mayor this afternoon and for ward councillors tomorrow ..

Results for mayor expected around 4pm today.

Results for ward councillors expected to begin around 11am tomorrow.

We are at Haberdashers' Knights school in Downham, the verification of votes has completed and the count has started.

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