2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council took place on 22 May 2014, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections, the election of the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, and the European Parliament elections. Voting in Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.
As of 6 March 2017 the composition of the Borough Council was:
22 Labour, 9 Independent Group Councillors, 5 Peoples Alliance of Tower Hamlets, 5 Conservatives, 3 Independents and 1 Liberal Democrat.
Reduction in council size
The Tower Hamlets Order 2013 reduced the size of the Council and created new electoral wards.The Local Government Boundary Commission for England began the process of changing the size of Tower Hamlets Council in 2012. The new wards for the elections in 2014 are as follows.
| Ward | Number of councillors |
| Bethnal Green | 3 |
| Blackwall and Cubitt Town | 3 |
| Bow East | 3 |
| Bow West | 2 |
| Bromley North | 2 |
| Bromley South | 2 |
| Canary Wharf | 2 |
| Island Gardens | 2 |
| Lansbury | 3 |
| Limehouse | 1 |
| Mile End | 3 |
| Poplar | 1 |
| Shadwell | 2 |
| Spitalfields and Banglatown | 2 |
| St Dunstan's | 2 |
| St Katharine's and Wapping | 2 |
| St Peter's | 3 |
| Stepney Green | 2 |
| Weavers | 2 |
| Whitechapel | 3 |
Results by ward
2014–2018 by-elections
A by-election for the ward of Stepney Green was held on 11 June 2015, after the sitting councillor, Alibor Choudhury, was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by an election court.A by-election for the ward of Whitechapel was held on 2 December 2016, after the sitting councillor, Shahed Ali, was found guilty of housing fraud. Another independent candidate, Ahmed Shafi, won the seat.