Jason Perry

Jason Stephen Perry is a Conservative Party politician who has served as the directly elected Mayor of Croydon, a Borough within London, since 2022. He was previously the Leader of the Opposition of the Croydon London Borough Council and has been Leader of the Croydon Council Conservative Group since September 2020.

He has been a councillor on Croydon London Borough Council since 1994, representing Coulsdon East from 1994 to 2002, Croham from 2002 to 2018 and South Croydon since boundary changes in 2018. Following a selection held in October 2021 he was selected as Croydon Conservatives prospective candidate for the newly created position of Mayor of Croydon. He was elected on 5 May 2022, defeating Labour Candidate, former deputy Mayor of London Val Shawcross, by a narrow margin of 589 votes after the second round.

First elected in 1994, Perry served on Croydon Council for 28 years before being elected Mayor. He served as a Cabinet Member during the 2006–2014 Conservative administration and served as a Deputy Leader of the Croydon Council Conservative Group from 2017 to 2020.

2022 election

Perry was elected as both Mayor and a Councillor. Therefore under the Local Government Act 2000 his Council seat was declared vacant and a by-election was held on the 30th June to elect a successor.

2018 election

2014 election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria Gatland	2,042
	Conservative	Michael Neal	1,910
	Conservative	Jason Perry	1,803
	Labour	Christopher Clark	1,100
	Labour	Paul Waddell	1,099
	Labour	Claudine Reid	1,011
	UKIP	Kathleen Garner	629
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Bishopp	587
	Green	Tracey Hague	515
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Devlin	505
	Liberal Democrats	John Jefkins	500
	Green	Gordon Halliday	479
	Green	Sasha Khan	474
	Putting Croydon First	Mark Samuel	191
	Independent	Tony Martin	97
Turnout			4,315	41.10%	25.94%
Registered electors			11,318
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

2010 election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria Gatland	3,389
	Conservative	Michael Neal	3,070
	Conservative	Jason Perry	2,804
	Labour	Natalie Allen	1,806
	Liberal Democrats	John Jefkins	1,795
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Camden	1,778
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Rix	1,758
	Labour	Martin Angus	1,512
	Labour	Adam Bonner	1,343
	Green	Stephen Harris	538
	Green	Muriel Passmore	507
	UKIP	William Bailey	444
	Green	Marc Richards	433
	Putting Croydon First	Mark Samuel	218
Turnout			7,582	67.04%	25.64%
Registered electors			11,309
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

2006 election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria Gatland	2,590
	Conservative	Michael Neal	2,418
	Conservative	Jason Perry	2,378
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Bishopp	861
	Liberal Democrats	Sheelagh Crampton	739
	Labour	Laura Doughty	722
	Labour	Paul Anderson	697
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Maxfield	609
	Green	Stephen Harris	569
	Labour	James Mburu	566
	UKIP	William Bailey	206
	The People's Choice	Evelyn Lane	113
	The People's Choice	Debra Cannam	112
	The People's Choice	Mark Samuel	96
Turnout			4,460	41.4%	2.7%
Registered electors			10,785
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

2002 election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria R. Gatland	2,100
	Conservative	Jason S. Perry	2,008
	Conservative	Michael A. Neal	1,984
	Liberal Democrats	Graham T. Dare	1,232
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah J. Newton	1,192
	Liberal Democrats	Gavin T. Howard-Jones	1,171
	Labour	Laura T. Doughty	681
	Labour	Stephen C. Moyse	647
	Labour	Louise F. Szpera	583
	UKIP	Brian P. Alchorn	106
	UKIP	Kathleen Garner	93
	Peoples Choice	Evelyn J. Lane	90
	Peoples Choice	Donald Pearce	71
	Peoples Choice	Mark R.L. Samuel	58
Turnout			4,121	38.7	1.3%
Registered electors			10,639
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

1998 election

1994 election