Londoners will face another by-election after a newly-elected Labour councillor quit.
Haringey council will organise another poll in the Woodside ward following Hasret Bozdogan stepping down.
She has said she will not be able to take on the seat she won on May 7 for “personal reasons”, according to a statement released by Haringey Labour.
It is the second by-election announced in less than two weeks in the borough and follows Green candidate Jayon Henriques, who was elected to represent Northumberland Park ward, stepping down after it was revealed he was ineligible to be a councillor.
A Labour party spokesperson said: “All of us at Haringey Labour are deeply saddened by this. Hasret would have been a fantastic representative of Woodside and the Kurdish and Alevi community in Haringey.
“A by-election will be announced soon. We look forward to contesting this seat with a new candidate.”
Six Green councillors have immediately quit since the votes earlier this month.
Each by-election is expected to cost the cash-strapped town halls between £20,000 and £25,000 each to run.
Joanna Eaves, who was elected in Clapham Park, Lambeth quit this week citing health reasons.
Saiqa Ali, who was also elected as one of 29 Green councillors in Lambeth, stepping down following her arrest in the lead up to the polls over allegations she had made a series of antisemitic social media posts.
Simon Anthony, who won in North Acton, Ealing, quit on Monday. He was the only Green candidate to win in the ward, with the other two seats being taken by Labour.
James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward, but failed to realise his job as a primary school teacher meant he was ineligible to be a councillor because he works for the local authority.
Muhammed Naser, who was elected in the Regent's Park ward of Camden council, has also had to stand down for the same reason.
Another two by-elections will be held in Crofton Park, Lewisham, and Dalston in Hackney to fill Liam Shrivastava and Zoë Garbett’s councillor seats after they were both elected mayors of their respective boroughs.
Labour lost control of more than half of its London boroughs on May 7 in a dire set of elections for Sir Keir Starmer and his premiership.
Zack Polanski’s Green Party were the main beneficiaries from Labour’s plummeting popularity in the capital, taking control of Lewisham, Hackney and Waltham Forest in a series of historic wins.
