Labour The 1998 Newham London Borough election for the Newham London Borough Council was held on 7 May 1998.

Labour won every seat for the second time since the councils formation.

A total of 138 candidates stood in the election for the 60 seats being contested across 24 wards.

Candidates included a full slate from the Labour Party, whilst the Conservative Party ran 31 candidates and the Liberal Democrats ran 11 candidates.

Other candidates running were 8 Socialist Labour, 2 National Democrats, 11 BNP, 1 Monster Raving Looney and 14 Independents.