In the 2017 City of London Corporation Election for Portsoken Ward, there were five Independent party candidates and two Labour party candidates, but the Labour party candidates got higher percentage of votes individually..
Portsoken Ward Independent John William Fletcher Independent Henry Llewellyn Michael Jones Independent Ayesha Azad Independent Asif Sadiq Independent David James Barker Labour Mansur Ali Labour Jason Paul Pritchard 20.03 18.29 17.16 16.29 13.33 9.67 5.23 
