Wards
There are 24 wards which represent Croydon Council. All Croydon Council seats were up for re-election for the first time since the 2002 elections, during the election on May 4, 2006. Previously Labour held control of the council. In the election, the Conservatives took 10 seats from Labour and 1 from the Liberal Democrats. Since the defection of a Labour councillor to the Conservatives, giving the newly elected council's political composition as:
| Ward | Members elected in 2006 |
| Addiscombe | Russell Jackson (Con) |
| Andrew Price (Con) | |
| Maria Garcia de la Huerta (Con) | |
| Ashburton | Lindsay Frost (Con) |
| Eddy Arram (Con) | |
| Avril Slipper (Con) | |
| Bensham Manor | Raj Rajendran (Lab) |
| Greta Sohoye (Lab) | |
| Alison Butler (Lab) | |
| Broad Green | Stuart Collins (Lab) |
| Mike Selva (Lab) | |
| Manju Shahul-Hameed (Lab) | |
| Coulsdon East | Christopher Wright (Con) |
| Brian Udell (Con) | |
| Terry Lenton (Con) | |
| Coulsdon West | David Osland (Con) |
| Gavin Barwell (Con) | |
| Brian Cakebread (Con) | |
| Croham | Maria Gatland (Con) |
| Michael Neal (Con) | |
| Jason Perry (Lab) | |
| Fairfield | Vidhi Mohan (Con) |
| Susan Winborn (Con) | |
| David Fitze (Con) | |
| Fieldway | Simon Hall (Lab) |
| Carole Bonner (Lab) | |
| Heathfield | Linda Bailey (Con) |
| Sharon Massey (Con) | |
| Andy John Waters (Con) | |
| Kenley | Jan Buttinger (Con) |
| Steve O'Connell (Con) | |
| Steve Hollands (Con) | |
| New Addington | Brenda Kirby (Lab) |
| George Ayres (Lab) | |
| Norbury | Maggie Mansell (Lab) |
| Shafi Khan (Lab) | |
| Sherwan Chowdhury (Lab) | |
| Purley | Graham Bass (Con) |
| Derek Millard (Con) | |
| Donald Speakman (Con) | |
| Sanderstead | Lynne Hale (Con) |
| Timothy Pollard (Con) | |
| Yvette Hopley (Con) | |
| Selhurst | Timothy Godfrey (Lab) |
| Toni Letts (Lab) | |
| Toni Letts (Lab) | |
| Selsdon and Ballards | Dudley Mead (Con) |
| Sara Bashford (Con) | |
| Phil Thomas (Con) | |
| Shirley | Janet Marshall (Con) |
| Richard Chatterjee (Con) | |
| Mike Fisher (Con) | |
| South Norwood | Susan Bennett (Con) |
| Luke Clancy (Con) | |
| Jane Avis (Lab) | |
| Thornton Heath | Pat Clouder (Lab) |
| Matthew Kyeremeh (Lab) | |
| Louisa Woodley (Lab) | |
| Upper Norwood | Robert Askey (Con) |
| Pat Ryan (Lab) | |
| George Filbey (Con) | |
| Waddon | Tony Harris (Con) |
| Jonathan Driver (Con) | |
| Simon Hoar (Con) | |
| West Thornton | Raj Chandarana (Lab) |
| Bernadette Khan (Lab) | |
| Mike Mogul (Con) | |
| Woodside | Karen Jewitt (Lab) |
| Tony Newman (Lab) | |
| Paul Scott (Lab) |
Read more about this topic: Croydon Council Election, 2006
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