London Borough of Merton

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

17 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

89%

Average

87%

Median

94%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Labour Party

Liberal Democrat

Local Conservatives

Merton Park Ward Independent Residents

Labour and Co-operative Party

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Labour Party(28)

88%

Liberal Democrat(16)

89%

Local Conservatives(7)

89%

Merton Park Ward Independent Residents(2)

94%

Labour and Co-operative Party(2)

97%

Independent(1)

79%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Mike Brunt
Labour Party
100%
2
Klaar Dresselaers
Liberal Democrat
100%
3
Anthony Fairclough
Liberal Democrat
100%

Lowest attendance

1
James Williscroft
Labour Party
0%
2
Marsie Skeete
Labour Party
25%
3
Susie Hicks
Liberal Democrat
54%

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#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Mike Brunt	Labour Party	26/26	100%	Good
2	Klaar Dresselaers	Liberal Democrat	8/8	100%	Good
3	Anthony Fairclough	Liberal Democrat	13/13	100%	Good
4	Edward Foley	Merton Park Ward Independent Residents	20/20	100%	Good
5	Daniel Holden	Local Conservatives	13/13	100%	Good
6	Dan Johnston	Labour Party	25/25	100%	Good
7	Sally Kenny	Labour Party	17/17	100%	Good
8	Samantha MacArthur	Liberal Democrat	17/17	100%	Good
9	Edith Macauley MBE	Labour Party	17/17	100%	Good
10	Peter McCabe	Labour Party	21/21	100%	Good
11	Nick McLean	Local Conservatives	17/17	100%	Good
12	Aidan Mundy	Labour and Co-operative Party	20/20	100%	Good
13	Robert Page	Liberal Democrat	18/18	100%	Good
14	Shuile Syeda	Labour Party	29/29	100%	Good
15	Matthew Willis	Liberal Democrat	16/16	100%	Good
16	Billy Hayes	Labour Party	23/24	96%	Good
17	Joan Henry	Labour Party	26/27	96%	Good
18	Agatha Mary Akyigyina OBE	Labour Party	21/22	95%	Good
19	Caroline Cooper-Marbiah	Labour Party	18/19	95%	Good
20	Brenda Fraser	Labour Party	18/19	95%	Good
21	Ross Garrod	Labour Party	18/19	95%	Good
22	Usaama Kaweesa	Labour Party	21/22	95%	Good
23	Michael Paterson	Local Conservatives	18/19	95%	Good
24	Stephen Alambritis MBE	Labour Party	17/18	94%	Good
25	Jil Hall	Liberal Democrat	16/17	94%	Good
26	Stuart Neaverson	Labour Party	16/17	94%	Good
27	Eleanor Stringer	Labour Party	17/18	94%	Good
28	Slawek Szczepanski	Labour Party	15/16	94%	Good
29	Victoria Wilson	Liberal Democrat	17/18	94%	Good
30	Martin Whelton	Labour and Co-operative Party	13/14	93%	Good
31	Franca Ofeimu	Labour Party	22/24	92%	Good
32	Kirsten Galea	Liberal Democrat	10/11	91%	Good
33	Paul Kohler	Liberal Democrat	10/11	91%	Good
34	Simon McGrath	Liberal Democrat	19/21	90%	Good
35	John Oliver	Liberal Democrat	18/20	90%	Good
36	Max Austin	Local Conservatives	15/17	88%	Fair
37	Billy Christie	Labour Party	14/16	88%	Fair
38	Eleanor Cox	Local Conservatives	13/15	87%	Fair
39	Stephen Mercer	Merton Park Ward Independent Residents	13/15	87%	Fair
40	Gill Manly	Labour Party	25/29	86%	Fair
41	John Braithwaite	Liberal Democrat	15/18	83%	Fair
42	Michael Butcher	Labour Party	23/28	82%	Fair
43	Andrew Judge	Labour Party	14/17	82%	Fair
44	Hina Bokhari OBE	Liberal Democrat	8/10	80%	Fair
45	Linda Kirby MBE	Labour Party	12/15	80%	Fair
46	Tony Reiss	Liberal Democrat	16/20	80%	Fair
47	Caroline Charles	Independent	11/14	79%	Fair
48	Thomas Barlow	Local Conservatives	7/9	78%	Fair
49	Andrew Howard	Local Conservatives	12/17	71%	Low
50	Sheri-Ann Bhim	Labour Party	16/23	70%	Low
51	Dennis Pearce	Labour Party	7/10	70%	Low
52	Laxmi Attawar	Labour Party	9/14	64%	Low
53	Chessie Flack	Liberal Democrat	9/14	64%	Low
54	Susie Hicks	Liberal Democrat	7/13	54%	Low
55	Marsie Skeete	Labour Party	2/8	25%	Poor
56	James Williscroft	Labour Party	0/13	0%	Poor