London Labour Party
London Labour Party | |
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Mayor of London | Sadiq Khan |
Statutory Deputy Mayor | Joanne McCartney AM |
Leader in the London Assembly | Len Duvall AM |
Headquarters |
Southside, 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT |
Ideology |
Social democracy Democratic socialism[1] |
Political position | Centre-left |
National affiliation | Labour Party (UK) |
European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
International affiliation | Progressive Alliance, Socialist International (Observer) |
European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Colours | Red |
House of Commons (London Seats) |
49 / 73 |
European Parliament (London seats) |
4 / 8 |
London Assembly |
12 / 25 |
Court of Common Council |
5 / 100 |
Councillors in London |
1,060 / 1,851 |
Council control in London |
21 / 32 |
Executive mayoralties in London |
5 / 5 |
Website | |
London Labour Party | |
The London Labour Party is the regional party of the Labour Party that is currently the largest political party operating in Greater London.
Current representatives
This article is part of a series on the politics and government of London |
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Members of the European Parliament
MEP | Party-list |
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Claude Moraes | 1 |
Mary Honeyball | 2 |
Lucy Anderson | 3 |
Seb Dance | 4 |
Members of Parliament
- Shadow Cabinet
- Jeremy Corbyn – Leader
- John McDonnell – Shadow Chancellor
- Diane Abbott – Shadow Home Secretary
- Emily Thornberry – Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow First Secretary of State (Chair of the London Group of Labour MPs)
- Keir Starmer – Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
- Barry Gardiner - Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade.
- Dawn Butler - Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities.
- Shadow Ministers
- Steve Reed – Shadow Minister for Local Government
- Catherine West – Shadow Foreign Minister
- Lyn Brown – Shadow Home Minister
- Andy Slaughter – Shadow Justice Minister
- Teresa Pearce – Shadow Minister for Housing
- Stephen Pound – Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland
- Clive Efford – Shadow Minister for Sport & Tourism
- Marsha De Cordova - Shadow Minister for Disabled People
- Opposition whip
London Assembly Members
AM | Constituency |
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Jennette Arnold | North East |
Unmesh Desai | City and East |
Tom Copley | Party-list (4) |
Andrew Dismore | Barnet and Camden |
Len Duvall (Leader) | Greenwich and Lewisham |
Nicky Gavron | Party-list (1) |
Joanne McCartney | Enfield and Haringey |
Murad Qureshi | Party-list (2) |
Onkar Sahota | Ealing and Hillingdon |
Navin Shah | Brent and Harrow |
Val Shawcross | Lambeth and Southwark |
Fiona Twycross | Party-list (3) |
Councillors
Council | Councillors |
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Barking and Dagenham | 51 / 51 |
Barnet | 25 / 63 |
Bexley | 11 / 45 |
Brent | 60 / 63 |
Bromley | 8 / 60 |
Camden | 43 / 54 |
Croydon | 41 / 70 |
Ealing | 57 / 69 |
Enfield | 46 / 63 |
Greenwich | 42 / 51 |
Hackney | 52 / 57 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 35 / 46 |
Haringey | 42 / 57 |
Harrow | 35 / 63 |
Havering | 5 / 54 |
Hillingdon | 21 / 65 |
Hounslow | 51 / 60 |
Islington | 47 / 48 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 13 / 50 |
Kingston upon Thames | 0 / 48 |
Lambeth | 57 / 63 |
Lewisham | 54 / 54 |
Merton | 34 / 60 |
Newham | 60 / 60 |
Redbridge | 51 / 63 |
Richmond upon Thames | 0 / 54 |
Southwark | 48 / 63 |
Sutton | 0 / 54 |
Tower Hamlets | 42 / 45 |
Waltham Forest | 46 / 60 |
Wandsworth | 26 / 60 |
Westminster | 18 / 60 |
Common Councilmen
Labour is the only political party to have any seats in the City of London Corporation's Court of Common Council.
Common Councilman | Ward |
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Richard Crossan | Aldersgate |
Mary Durcan | Cripplegate |
William Pimlott | Cripplegate |
Munsur Ali | Portsoken |
Jason Pritchard | Portsoken |
Executive Mayors
Mayoralty | Mayor | |
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Greater London | Sadiq Khan | |
Hackney | Philip Glanville | |
Lewisham | Damien Egan | |
Newham | Rokhsana Fiaz | |
Tower Hamlets | John Biggs |
Electoral performance
UK Parliament elections
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results at UK general elections since the area of Greater London was created.[2]
Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MPs elected | Change | |
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Feb 1974 | 1,587,065 | 40.4% | 50 / 92 | |||
Oct 1974 | 1,540,462 | 43.9% | 51 / 92 | |||
1979 | 1,459,085 | 39.6% | 42 / 92 | |||
1983 | 1,031,539 | 29.8% | 26 / 84 | |||
1987 | 1,136,903 | 31.5% | 23 / 84 | |||
1992 | 1,332,424 | 37.1% | 35 / 84 | |||
1997 | 1,643,329 | 49.5% | 57 / 74 | |||
2001 | 1,306,869 | 47.3% | 55 / 74 | |||
2005 | 1,135,687 | 38.9% | 44 / 74 | |||
2010 | 1,245,637 | 36.6% | 38 / 73 | |||
2015 | 1,545,080 | 43.7% | 45 / 73 | |||
2017 | 2,087,010 | 54.6% | 49 / 73 | |||
European Parliament elections
The table below shows the results gained by the London Labour Party in elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 1994, MEPs were elected from 10 individual constituencies by first-past-the-post; since 1999, MEPs have been elected from a London-wide regional list by proportional representation.
Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MEPs elected | Change | |
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1979 | 566,525 | 35.0% | N/A | 1 / 10 | N/A | |
1984 | 683,789 | 41.0% | 5 / 10 | |||
1989 | 778,589 | 41.6% | 7 / 10 | |||
1994 | 821,876 | 50.2% | 9 / 10 | |||
1999 | 399,466 | 35.0% | 4 / 10 | |||
2004 | 466,584 | 24.8% | 3 / 9 | |||
2009 | 372,590 | 21.3% | 2 / 8 | |||
2014 | 806,959 | 36.7% | 4 / 8 | |||
Regional elections
Greater London Council elections
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the Greater London Council. The GLC was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.
Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | Councillors | Change | Result | |
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1964 | 1,063,390 | 44.6% | N/A | 64 / 100 | N/A | Labour win | |
1967 | 732,669 | 34.0% | 18 / 100 | Conservative win | |||
1970 | 766,272 | 39.9% | 35 / 100 | Conservative win | |||
1973 | 928,034 | 47.4% | 58 / 92 | Labour win | |||
1977 | 737,194 | 32.9% | 28 / 92 | Conservative win | |||
1981 | 939,457 | 41.8% | 50 / 92 | Labour win | |||
Between 1986 and 2000 there was no city-wide governmental body in Greater London.
London Assembly elections
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the London Assembly.
Date | Constituency Vote | % of Vote | Change | Regional Vote | % of Vote | Change | AMs | Change | |
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2000 | 501,296 | 31.6% | N/A | 502,874 | 30.3% | N/A | 9 / 25 | N/A | |
2004 | 444,808 | 24.7% | 468,247 | 25.0% | 7 / 25 | ||||
2008 | 673,855 | 28.0% | 665,443 | 27.1% | 8 / 25 | ||||
2012 | 933,438 | 42.3% | 911,204 | 41.1% | 12 / 25 | ||||
2016 | 1,138,576 | 43.5% | 1,054,801 | 40.3% | 12 / 25 |
London Mayoral elections
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the Mayor of London.
Date | Candidate | 1st Round vote | % of vote | 2nd Round vote | % of vote | Result | Notes | |
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2000 | Frank Dobson | 223,884 | 13.1% | Eliminated | Eliminated | Independent win | Ex-GLC leader and Labour MP Ken Livingstone ran as an independent and won. | |
2004 | Ken Livingstone | 685,548 | 36.8% | 828,390 | 55.4% | Labour win | ||
2008 | Ken Livingstone | 893,887 | 37.0% | 1,028,966 | 46.8% | Conservative win | ||
2012 | Ken Livingstone | 889,918 | 40.3% | 992,273 | 48.5% | Conservative win | ||
2016 | Sadiq Khan | 1,148,716 | 44.2% | 1,310,143 | 56.8% | Labour win | ||
Borough council elections
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the London Boroughs.
Date | Vote share | Change | Councillors | Change | Councils | Change | |
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1964 | — | N/A | 1,112 / 1,859 | N/A | 20 / 32 | N/A | |
1968 | 28.1% | N/A | 350 / 1,863 | 3 / 32 | |||
1971 | 53.1% | 1,221 / 1,863 | 21 / 32 | ||||
1974 | 42.9% | 1,090 / 1,867 | 18 / 32 | ||||
1978 | 39.6% | 882 / 1,908 | 14 / 32 | ||||
1982 | 30.4% | 781 / 1,914 | 12 / 32 | ||||
1986 | 38.0% | 957 / 1,914 | 15 / 32 | ||||
1990 | 40.8% | 925 / 1,914 | 14 / 32 | ||||
1994 | 42.9% | 1,044 / 1,917 | 17 / 32 | ||||
1998 | 42.2% | 1,050 / 1,917 | 18 / 32 | ||||
2002 | 36.1% | 866 / 1,861 | 15 / 32 | ||||
2006 | 30.1% | 685 / 1,861 | 7 / 32 | ||||
2010 | 35.1% | 875 / 1,861 | 17 / 32 | ||||
2014 | 43.0% | 1,060 / 1,851 | 20 / 32 | ||||
2018 | 47.0% | 1,120 / 1,851 | 21 / 32 | ||||
Chairs
- 1915: John Stokes
- 1916: Fred Bramley
- 1919: Thomas Naylor
- 1933: Harold Clay
- 1948: Jock Tiffin
- 1952: Charles Brandon
- 1956: Bob Mellish
- 1977: Arthur Latham
- 1986: Glenys Thornton
- 1991: Jim Fitzpatrick
- 2000: Chris Robbins
- 2002: Len Duvall
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
- ↑ http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/flatfile.html