2004 London Assembly election

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An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004, along with the 2004 London mayoral election.

The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies, nine of which were won by the Conservatives and five by the Labour Party. An additional eleven members were allocated by a London wide top-up vote, with the proviso that parties must win at least 5% of the vote to qualify for list seats. This latter rule prevented both the British National Party and the Respect Party from winning a seat each as both fell just short of the 5% threshold.

This election saw losses for Labour and the Greens and gains for both the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, who achieved their first representation in the Assembly since its creation in 2000.

Results

London Assembly election, 2004
	Additional member system										Total seats
	Constituency					Region					Total seats
	Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−	Total	+/−	%
Conservative	562,047	31.2	2.0	9	1	533,696	28.5	0.5	0	1	9		36.0
Labour	444,808	24.7	6.9	5	1	468,247	25.0	5.3	2	1	7	2	28.0
Liberal Democrats	332,237	18.4	0.5	0		316,218	16.9	2.1	5	1	5	1	20.0
Green	138,242	7.7	2.5	0		160,445	8.6	2.5	2	1	2	1	8.0
UKIP	180,516	10.0	9.9	0		156,780	8.4	6.3	2	2	2	2	8.0
BNP	-	-	-	-	-	90,365	4.8	1.9	0		0		-
Respect	82,301	4.6	New	0		87,533	4.7	New	0		0		-
CPA	43,322	2.4	N/A	0		54,914	2.9	0.4	0		0		-
Alliance for Diversity in Community, Uppal	-	-	-	-	-	4,968	0.3	New	0		0		-
Communist	1,378	0.1	N/A	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
Rathy Alagaratnam	1,240	0.1	New	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
Others	16,446	0.9	4.8	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
Total	1,802,537			14		1,873,166			11		25

Constituency Vote

Conservative			31.2%
Labour			24.7%
Liberal Democrats			18.4%
UKIP			10.0%
Green			7.7%
Respect			4.6%
CPA			2.4%
Others			1.1%

Regional Vote

Conservative			28.5%
Labour			25.0%
Liberal Democrats			16.9%
Green			8.6%
UKIP			8.4%
BNP			4.8%
Respect			4.7%
CPA			2.9%
Others			0.3%

Assembly seats

Conservative			36.0%
Labour			28.0%
Liberal Democrats			20.0%
Green			8.0%
UKIP			8.0%

The Conservative Party gained Brent and Harrow from Labour (who lost 7.6% of their vote), however they lost it again in the 2008 election. There were also large swings away from Labour in Barnet and Camden, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Greenwich and Lewisham, Havering and Redbridge and West Central. The Liberal Democrats lost votes in most constituencies, but made gains in Enfield and Haringey, Lambeth and Southwark and Merton and Wandsworth. UKIP gained large percentages of the vote in Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Greenwich and Lewisham and Havering and Redbridge.

Overall turnout: 36.97%

London Assembly representation

Party		Seats	Loss/Gain
	Conservative	9	±0
	Labour	7	–2
	Liberal Democrats	5	+1
	Green	2	–1
	UKIP	2	+2
Total		25

New members

Defeated members

Retiring members

Constituency Candidates

Constituency	Conservative	Labour	Lib Dem	Green	UKIP	Respect	CPA	Others
Constituency								Others
Barnet & Camden	Brian Coleman (47,640, 1st)	Lucy Anderson (36,121, 2nd)	Jonathan Simpson (23,603, 3rd)	Miranda Dunn (11,921, 4th)	Magnus Nielsen (8,685, 5th)	Elisabeth Wheatley (5,150, 6th)
Bexley & Bromley	Bob Neill (64,246, 1st)	Charlie Mansell (24,848, 4th)	Duncan Borrowman (29,992, 2nd)	Ann Garrett (8,069, 5th)	Heather Bennett (26,703, 3rd)	Alun Morinan (1,673, 7th)	Miranda Suit (3,397, 6th)
Brent & Harrow	Bob Blackman (39,900, 1st)	Toby Harris (35,214, 2nd)	Havard Hughes (20,782, 3rd)	Mohammad Ali (6,975, 5th)	Daniel Moss (7,199, 4th)	Albert Harriott (4,586, 6th)	Gladstone Macaulay (2,734, 7th)
City & East	Shafi Choudhury (23,749, 2nd)	John Biggs (38,085, 1st)	Guy Burton (18,255, 4th)	Terry McGrenera (8,687, 6th)	Christopher Pratt (17,997, 5th)	Oliur Rahman (19,675, 3rd)	Christopher Gill (4,461, 7th)
Croydon & Sutton	Andrew Pelling (52,330, 1st)	Sean Fitzsimons (25,861, 3rd)	Steve Gauge (28,636, 2nd)	Shasha Khan (6,175, 5th)	James Feisenberger (15,203, 4th)	Waqas Hussain (3,108, 7th)	David Campanale (4,234, 6th)
Ealing & Hillingdon	Richard Barnes (45,230, 1st)	Gurcharan Singh (34,214, 2nd)	Mike Cox (23,440, 3rd)	Sarah Edwards (9,395, 5th)	David Malindine (14,698, 4th)	Salvinder Dhillon (4,229, 7th)	Genevieve Hibbs (3,024, 8th)	Dalawar Chaudhry (Ind) (5,285, 6th)
Enfield & Haringey	Peter Forrest (32,381, 2nd)	Joanne McCartney (33,955, 1st)	Wayne Hoban (19,720, 3rd)	Jayne Forbes (10,310, 5th)	Brian Hall (10,652, 4th)	Sait Akgul (6,855, 6th)	Peter Wolstenholme (2,365, 7th)
Greenwich & Lewisham	Gareth Bacon (22,168, 2nd)	Len Duvall (36,251, 1st)	Alexander Feakes (19,183, 3rd)	Susan Luxton (11,271, 5th)	Timothy Reynolds (13,454, 4th)	Ian Page (2,825, 7th)	Stephen Hammond (3,619, 6th)
Havering & Redbridge	Roger Evans (44,723, 1st)	Keith Darvill (28,017, 2nd)	Matthew Lake (13,646, 4th)	Ashley Gunstock (6,009, 6th)	Lawrence Webb (18,297, 3rd)	Abdurahman Jafar (5,185, 7th)	Juliet Hawkins (2,917, 8th)	Malvin Brown (Res. Assoc. London) (6,925, 5th) David Stephens (Nat. Lib.) (2,031, 9th) Peter Thorogood (Ind) (1,597, 10th)
Lambeth & Southwark	Bernard Gentry (17,379, 3rd)	Val Shawcross (36,280, 1st)	Caroline Pidgeon (30,805, 2nd)	Shane Collins (11,900, 4th)	Frank Maloney (8,776, 5th)	Janet Noble (4,930, 6th)	Simisola Lawanson (3,655, 7th)
Merton & Wandsworth	Elizabeth Howlett (48,295, 1st)	Kathryn Smith (31,417, 2nd)	Andrew Martin (17,864, 3rd)	Roy Vickery (10,163, 4th)	Adrian Roberts (8,327, 5th)	Ruairidh Maclean (4,297, 6th)	Ellen Greco (2,782, 7th)	Rathy Alagaratnam (Ind) (1,240, 8th)
North East	Andrew Boff (23,264, 3rd)	Jennette Arnold (37,380, 1st)	Terry Stacy (24,042, 2nd)	Jon Nott (16,739, 4th)	R. J. Selby (11,459 , 5th)	D. R. E. Ryan (11,184, 6th)	A. A. Otchie (3,219, 7th)	J. I. Beavis (CPB) (1,378, 7th)
South West	Tony Arbour (48,858, 1st)	Seema Malhotra (25,225, 3rd)	Dee Doocey (44,791, 2nd)	Judy Maciejowska (9,866, 5th)	A. G. Hindle (12,477, 4th)	O. M. Waraich (3,785, 6th)	P. J. Flower (3,008, 7th)
West Central	Angie Bray (51,884, 1st)	Ansuya Sodha (21,940, 2nd)	Francesco Fruzza (17,478, 3rd)	Julia Stephenson (10,762, 4th)	Damian Hockney (7,219, 5th)	Kevin Cobham (4,825, 6th)	Jillian McLachlan (1,993, 7th)
Source: London Elects

London-wide lists


Name	Candidates Elected to Assembly	Not Elected
Alliance for Diversity in Community, Uppal		Inder Singh Uppal, Vasudev Kalidas Patel, Pritpal Singh Gahbri
British National Party		Jason Paul Douglas, Barry John Roberts, Julian Peter Leppert, Richard Barnbrook, Mary Teresa Culnane, Clifford John Le May, Alan Herbert Bailey, Anthony Young, Lawrence Rustem, Carlos Cortiglia, Gareth William Jones
Christian Peoples Alliance		Ram Gidoomal, David Bruno Campanale, Alan Craig, Gladstone Olufemi Macaulay, Peter James Flower, Susan Jane May, Genevieve Mary Hibbs, Juliet Frances Hawkins, Peter Hartley Wolstenholme, Jillian Mary Mclachlan, Ellen Sheila Greco
Conservative Party		Eric Ollerenshaw, Andrew Boff, Rebekah Gilbert, Victoria Borwick, Robert John Blackman, William Guy Darrell Norton, Reza Ahmed Shafi Choudhury, Cormach Joseph Moore, Adrian Carey Knowles, Gareth Andrew Bacon, Bernard Arthur Gentry, Andrew John Retter, Tony Cox, Philip John Briscoe, Yvonne Lydia Rivlin, Lionel David Zetter, David Tyrie Williams, Jonathan Harold Gough, Matthew William Laban, Simon Andrew Peter Jones, Sean Martin Fear, Darshan Suri
Green Party of England and Wales	Darren Johnson Jennifer Jones	Noel Lynch, Keith Magnum, Jayne Forbes, Danny Bates, Shane Collins, Ruth Jenkins, Mischa Borris, Thomas Joseph Walsh, Ashley Gunstock
Labour Party	Nicky Gavron Murad Qureshi	Samantha Heath, Sally Mulready, Abdul Asad, Karen Helena Hunte, Virendra Kumar Sharma, Martin Jonathan Lindsay, Bernadette Lappage, Raj Chandarana, Muhammed Abdal Ullah
Liberal Democrats	Lynne Featherstone Graham Tope Sally Hamwee Michael Tuffrey Elizabeth Doocey	Geoffrey Pope, Duncan Keith Borrowman, Monroe Palmer, Meral Hussein Ece, Steven Howard Gauge, Christopher David Noyce
Respect (George Galloway)		Lindsey German, Oliur Rahmanm, Linda Smith, Janet Noble, Sait Akgul, Salvinder Dhillon, Michael Rosen, Gregory Tucker, Tansy Hoskins, Kevin Cobham, Abdurahman Jafar
United Kingdom Independence Party	Damian Hockney Peter Hulme-Cross	Adrian Roberts, Paul Cronin, Lawrence Webb, Robin Lambert, John Dunford, Ralph Steven Atkinson, Frederick James Rolph, Daniel William Moss, Heather Ann Bennett

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References

↑ "London Assembly Member Bob Neill". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
↑ "London Assembly Member Toby Harris". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
↑ "London Assembly Member Graham Tope". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
↑ Not the incumbent, but stood in this seat and won.

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[1] "London Assembly Member Bob Neill". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

[2] "London Assembly Member Toby Harris". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

[3] "London Assembly Member Graham Tope". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

[4] Not the incumbent, but stood in this seat and won.

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