Over on the Brent Greens Blog, Shahrar Ali has posted a write up the results for the candidates at the Local Elections. The Greens stood the maximum number of candiates in each of the  20 wards in Brent and many of the candidates clocked up, several hundred votes, even reaching 840 votes in Kilburn.

The Local Election results 08/05/2010 from Brent Council.

Lab – 40 (21 seats gained)
Lib – 17 (10 seats lost)
Con – 6 (9 seats lost)
Other – 0 (2 seats lost)

Sarah Teather was returned to parliament by the voters of Brent Central.

Brent Central results

Election Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Sarah Teather	Liberal Democrats	20026	44%	Elected
Dawn Butler	Labour	18681	41%	Not elected
Sachin Rajput	Conservative	5067	11%	Not elected
Shahrar Ali	Green Party	668	1%	Not elected
Errol Williams	Christian Party	488	1%	Not elected
Abdi Duale	Respect	230	1%	Not elected
Dean McCastree	Independent	163	0%	Not elected

Mapesbury returned Cllrs Leaman, Matthews and Hasmi. Full results posted by Ward over at the Brent Council website.

”The local elections are in the shadow of the general election,” said Andrew Stunell, chair of the Liberal Democrats’ local election campaign team, reports the Beeb. Locally, the Labour team are focused the parliamentary campaign. What little local material they have published and distributed has been discredited and retracted. The Lib Dems are emphasizing the local campaign, highlighting the work of Lib Dem councillors in the wards.

Mapesbury - Brent Lib Dems

The local election promises to be more exciting than the race for Brent Central. Will Labour regain the Council from the Lib Dem / Conservative coalition? Will the Lib Dems gain more councillors, sufficient to gain a majority (32 seats) and control the whole council? Perhaps the Greens, fielding candidates in every ward in Brent, will gain a seat on the council.

These graphics show the political makeup of Brent Council after the 2006 Local elections and subsequent local by-elections.

Source – Brent Council website.