Hugh Malyan Labour Hugh Malyan Labour Elections to Croydon Council in London, England were held on 4 May 2002.

The Labour Party managed to keep control of the council which it had done since 1994 when it took power from the Conservative Party.

This year Labour held Croydon with a smaller majority, only clinging onto power through a tiny number of votes in its marginal wards - one councillor won by just eight votes.

37 Labour councillors, 32 Conservative councillors and 1 Liberal Democrat councillor were elected, maintaining Labour control of the Council.

Subsequently, one Conservative councillor defected to Labour, defected back to the Conservatives, became an independent and then a Liberal Democrat.