Leyton (ward)

Leyton ward is one of the electoral wards of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, situated in London, England. The ward is the known district of Leyton and is part of the parliamentary constituency of Leyton and Wanstead and the London Assembly constituency of North East. Leyton ward returns three borough councillors.

Landmarks

Prominent landmarks are Leyton Orient's Brisbane Road ground and New Spitalfields Market.

Councillors

In the council elections of 2006, the ward returned three councillors, two Liberal Democrats and one Labour in the third position. In 2002, Leyton had returned three Liberal Democrats with large majorities. In the 2006 election, the Labour candidate, Miranda Grell made spurious and potentially libellous allegations about her opponent, the gay Liberal Democrat candidate Barry Smith. While Smith's Liberal Democrat running mates were elected, he was not, and Grell was elected to the third position. Grell was found guilty of making false statements to aid her campaign, in which she accused him of being a paedophile in her canvassing with local residents.

Presiding Judge Woolard said he did not accept her conspiracy theory, as "on two occasions in making statements that were untrue and damaging to one of your fellow candidates", and found her guilty of falsely slurring her opponent.

The by-election for Leyton ward on 14 February 2008 was won by Liberal Democrat Winnie Smith.

The councillors elected in the 2022 election were:

• Rhiannon Eglin (Labour)
• Whitney Ihenachor (Labour)
• Terry Wheeler (Labour)

Waltham Forest council elections

2022 election

Leyton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhiannon Eglin	1,610	71.9
	Labour	Whitney Ihenachor	1,478	66.0
	Labour	Terry Wheeler	1,291	57.7
	Green	Rob Gardner	511	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	Shaukat Ali	456	20.4
	Liberal Democrats	Meera Chadha	390	17.4
	Liberal Democrats	Trevo Stone	313	14.0
	Conservative	Lauren Maske	217	9.7
	Conservative	Eliz Karamehmet	209	9.3
	Conservative	Ehsanullah Mohammed	170	7.6
	TUSC	Martin Reynolds	71	3.2
Turnout				25.6
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

2018 election

Leyton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacob Stewart Edwards	2,122	57.4
	Labour	Whitney Ihenachor	2,114	57.2
	Labour	Simon John Miller	1,943	52.5
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Sullivan	1,253	33.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Bird	1,167	31.6
	Liberal Democrats	Farooq Qureshi	1,162	31.4
	Conservative	Patricia Branagan	192	5.2
	Conservative	Rommel Moseley	190	5.1
	Conservative	Michael Caplan	176	4.8
	Duma Polska	Bogusława Anna Danielewicz	96	2.6
	TUSC	Cédric Henri Dany Gérôme	85	2.3
Turnout				36.18%
Majority			690
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing