Labour wins in Haringey — but only just

But Labour will have a vastly reduced majority in the new council chamber, down from 25 to just three. Nevertheless, council leader Charles Adje was upbeat after the result was announced at Alexandra Palace.

"Despite difficult press against Haringey Labour, we have delivered for the people of the borough," said a defiant Mr Adje. "The Lib Dems fought tooth and nail to take Haringey, and they have failed."

But while Labour was understandably relieved, Mr Adje lost half of his executive team to Lib Dem candidates in the elections.

The Lib Dems had hoped to win control of the council, as their counterparts did in Camden. And the signs were good after Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone overturned a formidable majority to win Hornsey and Wood Green in last year's General Election.

The Lib Dems managed to extend their powerbase into traditional Labour areas such as Hornsey, Harringay and Bounds Green, and received more votes than the ruling party overall.

Councillor Neil Williams, Lib Dem leader, told the party faithful: "It was a sensational result for the Lib Dems, and I congratulate you all."

The Greens, Respect and the Tories failed to make an imprint in the election, and the promised 'Cameron effect' did not emerge to swing Highgate back to the Conservatives.

Haringey Council election results
Labour wins by a majority of three

Labour Party - 30 seats
Liberal Democrats - 27 seats

Results by ward
Elected candidates in CAPITALS

Alexandra ward

SUSAN OATWAY (LD) - 1,966
WAYNE HOBAN (LD) - 1,937
DAVID BEACHAM (LD)- 1,914
Joanna Christophides (Lab) - 720
Stewart McIlroy (Lab) - 680
Stuart McNamara (Lab) - 661
Helen Lipscomb (Green) 500
David Rennie (Green) - 521
Michael Shaughnessy (Green) - 404
Rachael Shawcross (Green) - 310
David Uffindell (Cons) - 286
Mohammad Ali Hyder Ismail (Cons) - 270

Bounds Green ward

MATTHEW COOKE (Lab)- 1,213
ALI DEMIRCI (LD) - 1,212
JOHN OAKES (LD) - 1,167
Thomas Davidson (Lab)- 1,164
Yasmin Rizvi (LD) - 1,156
Vivienne Manheim (Lab) - 1,097
Kathryn Dean (Green) - 360
Andrea Phillips (Green) - 303
Diana Bannister (Cons) - 276
Richard Holden (Cons) - 277
Rita Gayford (Green) - 275
Natalie Evans 273 -(Cons)

Bruce Grove ward

RAY DODDS (Lab) - 1,334
DILEK DOGUS (Lab) - 1,299
EMMA JONES (Lab) - 1,245
Andrew James (Cons) - 344
Julia Glenn (LD) - 338
Tarik Dervish (Green) - 312
Dennis Bury (Green) - 311
Lynn Hopkins (LD) - 304
Matthew Brown (Cons) - 292
Argyros Arghyrou (Green) - 289
Margaret Bradley (Cons) - 289
David Oxford (LD) - 259

Crouch End ward

LINDA WEBER(LD) - 1,870
RONALD AITKEN (LD) - 1,820
DAVID WINSKILL (LD) - 1771
Philip Browne (Lab) - 603
Ali Akbar Nabeii (Lab) - 547
Jayne Forbes (Green) - 517
Abdul Koroma (Lab) - 503
Martin Ashby (Green) - 502
Nicola Bates (Cons) - 451
Nicholas O'Brien (Cons) - 433
Julian Sherwood (Cons) - 423
James Smith (Green) - 397

Fortis Green ward

SARA BEYNON (LD) - 1,855
MATTHEW DAVIES (LD) - 1,719
MARTIN NEWTON (LD) - 1,700
Patrick Cusworth (Cons) - 628
David Douglas (Cons) - 620
Gabriel Rozenberg (Cons) - 577
Alexander Hughes (Lab) - 502
Iquo Amaegbe (Lab) - 489
Dhirendra Halder (Lab) - 476
Mark Caulfield (Green) - 426
Daniel Rosenberg (Green) - 391
Nadja von Massow (Green) - 328

Harringay ward

KAREN ALEXANDER (LD) - 1,308
GIAN ADAMOU (Lab) - 1,254
CAROLYN AISHA BAKER (LD) - 1,159
David Schmitz (LD) - 1,075
Alpha Kane (Lab) - 1,068
Takki Sulaiman (Lab)- 1,024
Matthew Pollitt (Green) - 345
Peter Polycarpou (Green) - 343
Peter McAskie (Green) - 339
Kshitis Chandra Das (Cons) - 187
Peter Gilbert (Cons) - 163
Sally Lumb (Cons) - 152

Highgate ward

WALTER HARE (LD) - 1,534
JUSTIN PORTESS (LD) - 1,523
NEIL WILLIAMS (LD) - 1,405
Peter Forrest (Cons) - 1,163
David Allen (Cons) - 1,119
Douglas McNeill (Cons) - 1,068
Ralph Crisp (Ind) - 467
Richard Edwards (Green) - 424
David Heath (Lab) - 418
Barbara Simon (Lab) - 412
Charles Keep (Green) - 349
Peter Jones (Lab) - 347
Noel Lynch (Green) - 262

Hornsey ward

ERROL REID (LD) - 1,530
MONICA WHYTE (LD) - 1,432
ROBERT GORRIE (LD) - 1,388
De Quincy Prescott (Lab) - 1,028
Richard Milner (Lab) - 1020
Erline Prescott (Lab) - 948
Paul Butler (Green) - 454
Mary Hogan (Green) - 429
Sarah Phillips (Green) - 356
Elizabeth Henderson (Cons) - 191
Jennifer Grant (Cons) - 176
Kay Curtis (Cons) - 169

Muswell Hill ward

JONATHAN BLOCH (LD) - 2,060
GAIL ENGERT (LD) - 2,037
SHEILA RAINGER (LD) - 1,916
David Thacker (Lab) - 707
Rebecca Wilkinson (Lab) - 656
Peter Chalk (Lab) - 648
Jeremy Green (Green) - 482
Francesca Richards (Green) - 375
Roderick Allen (Cons) - 352
Andrew Martin (Green) - 302
Anne Forrest (Cons) - 297
Evan Price (Cons) - 280

Noel Park ward

ALAN DOBBIE (Lab) - 1,124
CATHERINE HARRIS (LD) - 1,114
FIYAZ MUGHAL (LD) - 1,031
Katherine Wynne (Lab) - 1,024
Neville Watson (Lab) - 1,007
Balan Sisupalan (LD) - 920
Annabel Pilott (Green) - 257
Elizabeth Dennis (Cons) - 249
Neil O'Shea (Cons) - 240
David Grant (Cons) - 229
Howard Pilott (Green) - 183

Northumberland Park ward

SHEILA PEACOCK (Lab) - 1,445
JOHN BEVAN (Lab) - 1,434
KAUSHIKA AMIN (Lab) - 1,392
Roger Bradley (Cons) - 311
Gladys Weeks (Cons) - 258
Calistra Toussaint (Cons) - 255
Francis Coleman (LD) - 254
Alan Aris (LD) - 248
Valerie Mortimer (LD) - 242
David Burns (Green) - 208
James John McGlynn (Ind) - 123

Seven Sisters ward

DHIRENDRA BASU (Lab)1216
FREDERICK KNIGHT (Lab)1195
CLAIRE KOBER (Lab) 1124
Zev Gruber (Cons) - 728
Cecil Lloyd Pinnock (Cons) - 682
Lydia Rivlin (Cons) - 647
Ursula Bury (Green) - 342
Kathleen Osborne (LD) - 334
Timothy Harris (LD) - 307
Jenepher Gordon (Green) - 305
Glen Nichol (LD) - 269

St Ann's ward

BRIAN HALEY (Lab) - 1,195
NILGUN CANVER (Lab) - 1,184
ROBERT HARRIS (Lab) - 1,064
Simon Hester (Respect) - 579
Adam Boardman (Green) - 500
Tekin Kartal (Respect) - 468
Alexander Sweet (LD) - 390
Sakina Rizvi (LD) - 348
Aeronwy Harris (Cons) - 337
Phivous Joannides (Cons) - 329
Michael Willett (LD) - 285
Peter Sartori (Cons) - 283

Stroud Green ward

LAURA EDGE (LD)1739
EDMUND BUTCHER (LD)1530
RICHARD WILSON (LD)1438
Peter Hillman (Lab) - 941
Peter Morton (Lab) - 911
Reginald Rice (Lab) - 847
Peter Budge (Green) - 668
Julian Carter (Green) - 453
Niall McAskie (Green) - 424
Toby Boutle (Cons) - 207
Roy Norton (Cons) - 191
Christopher Vowles (Cons) - 190

Tottenham Green ward

ISIDOROS DIAKIDES (Lab) - 1,180
BERNICE VANIER (Lab) - 1,119
HARRY LISTER (Lab) - 1,111
Jill Gale (LD) - 436
Christopher Madden (Green) - 383
Frances Lay (LD) - 356
Jonathan Howard (Cons) - 321
Susan Hinchcliffe (Cons) - 313
Zarko Stefan (LD) - 243
James Orpin (Cons) - 236
Frederick Woodward (Ind) - 83
Salah El-Din Wakie (Ind) - 81

Tottenham Hale ward

LORNA REITH (Lab) - 1,439
ALAN STANTON (Lab) - 1,376
SHEIK THOMPSON (Lab) - 1,246
Neville Collins (LD) - 427
Olive Bates (Cons) - 424
Ann Harvey-Kirkwood (Cons) - 380
David Moore (Green) - 346
Roger Kirkwood (Cons) - 330
Thuranie Jackson (LD) - 317
Roderick Benziger (LD) - 315

West Green ward

EDDIE GRIFFITH (Lab) - 1,192(Lab)
GMMH RAHMAN KHAN (Lab) - 1,135(Lab)
ANTONIA MALLETT (Lab) - 1,073
Sait Akgul (Respect) - 626
Gary McFarlane (Respect) - 538
Anne Gray (Green) - 469
James Haskings (LD) - 426
Jean Farmer (Cons) - 378
Phodis Evangelou (Cons) - 336
John Fynaut (LD) - 329
Della Hirsch (LD) - 328
Eyvind Andresen (Cons) - 324

White Hart Lane ward

CHARLES ADJE (Lab) - 1,370
GIDEON BULL (Lab) - 1,344
ELISABETH SANTRY (Lab) - 1,195
Justin Hinchcliffe (Cons) - 737
Eric Lattimore (Cons) - 652
Thomas Mason (Cons) - 608
Friedrich Ernst (Green) - 330
David Bartlett (LD) - 330
Isabel De Sudea (LD) - 269
Shantanu Guha (LD) - 246
James Alexander Grinham (Green) - 242

Woodside ward

GEORGE MEEHAN (Lab) - 1,354
PATRICK EGAN (Lab) - 1353
JAYANTI PATEL (Lab) - 1318
Patricia Faulkner (LD) - 1224
Nigel Scott (LD) - 1126
Ajmal Masroor (LD) - 1087
Peter Corley (Green) - 297
Juliet Donnelly (Cons) - 293
Adam Newton (Cons) - 271
Stephen Shawcross (Cons) - 221
Shyamal Kataria (Green) - 220