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The 2024 election to the London Assembly will take place on 2 May, concurrently with the London mayoral election and local elections across England and Wales.
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The 2024 election to the London Assembly will take place on 2 May, concurrently with the London mayoral election and local elections across England and Wales.
In the 2021 London Assembly elections, Labour won eleven seats, the Conservatives nine, the Green Party three and the Liberal Democrats two.
Members of the London Assembly are elected through a combination of both first past the post and closed list proportional representation. This system is commonly referred to as the additional member system. Fourteen members are elected in single member constituencies with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes becoming the Assembly Member for that constituency. An additional 11 members are also elected from the whole of London, with parties submitting lists of up to 25 candidates. For a party to be included, it needs to attain at least 5% of the vote across London. This process divides the remaining seats proportionally to the vote share of the parties with the use of the modified D'Hondt method allocating the seats. This system ensures overall proportionality with the 11 additional members being allocated in a corrective manner. [1] [2]
Constituency candidates need to submit a deposit of £1,000, which is returned if they get at least 5% of the vote. A London-wide list requires a deposit of £5,000, which is returned if the list gets 2.5% of the vote. [3]
† Also standing as mayoral candidate
| 2024 London Assembly election (London-wide) [4] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson, Saffron Arezo Gloyne, Alex Bourke, Femy Amin†, Bel Jacobs, Mark Scott, Julian Weisman | ||||
| Britain First | Nick Scanlon† | ||||
| CPA | Maureen Martin, Simeon Ademolake, Helen Spiby-Vann, Amelia Allao, Ashley Dickenson, Eunice Odesanmi, Des Coke, Katherine Hortense, Zion Amodu, Lucy Baiye-Gaman | ||||
| Communist | Ross Crawford, William James Dry, Nigel Andrew Bernard Green, Anita Halpin, Arnes Ramic, Ross Leonard, Laura Billie Miller, Michael John Squires, Robin Talbot, Paul Whitehouse, Ruth Styles Wilson, Benjamin Eric Woodward | ||||
| Conservative | Susan Hall†, Shaun Bailey, Emma Best, Andrew Boff, Alessandro Georgiou, Nicholas Martin McLean, Nicholas Donald Anthony Vandyke, Laila Cunningham, Richard James Mills, Katherine Louis Lymer, Will Jackson | ||||
| Green | Siân Berry, Caroline Russell, Zack Polanski, Zoë Garbett†, Benali Hamdache, Scott Ainslie, Ria Patel, Nate Higgins, Claire Sheppard, Shahrar Ali, Pete Elliott | ||||
| Heritage | Maria Elena Candilo, David Peter Poulden, Michael Gerad Watson, Dafydd Huw Morriss, Henryk Mackiewicz | ||||
| Labour | Elly Baker, Sakina Sheikh, John Howard, James Beckles, Bora Kwon, Jasbir Anand, Martin Whelton, Omid Miri, Devina Paul, Sian Eiles, Patrick Lilley | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Hina Bokhari, Rob Blackie†, Irina von Wiese, Gareth Roberts, Chris Maines, John Sweeney, William Houngbo, Michael Bukola, Chris Annous, Sue Wixley, Sarah Hoyle | ||||
| Reform UK | Alex Wilson, Howard Cox†, Mark George Simpson, Ian Price, Steve Chilcott, Roger Gravett, Tony Glover, Alan Cook, Raj Forhad, Nicola Pateman, Anthony Michael Goodwin, Tania Marszalek, David Kenton Sandground, Marian Lynn Newton, Tony Sharp | ||||
| Rejoin EU | Richard Hewison, Alex Kerr, Charlotte Blake, Brendan Donnelly, Alessandro Gallo, Briony Kapoor, Marianne Mandujano, Drew Miles, Ben Rend, Laurence Williams, Jaki Airey, Simon Bezer, Jas Alduk | ||||
| SDP | Amy Gallagher†, Huge de Burgh, Stephen Balogh, Jon Mabbutt, Manny Lawal, Jane Gibson, Steve Kelleher, Alastair Mellon, Laurenzo Mefsut, Daniel Woodruffe, Jake Painter, David Hargreaves, Les Beaumont | ||||
| no description | Laurence Fox [lower-alpha 1] | ||||
| Independent | Farah London | ||||
| Independent | Gabe Romualdo | ||||
| Constituency | Labour | Conservative | Green | Lib Dems | Reform UK | Others |
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| Barnet & Camden | Anne Clarke [lower-alpha 2] | Julie Redmond | Kate Tokley | Scott Emery | Raj Forhad [lower-alpha 3] | Bill Martin (SPGB) |
| Bexley & Bromley | Kevin McKenna | Thomas Frederick Turrell [lower-alpha 4] | Marley Cornelia King | Gita Bapat | Alan Cook [lower-alpha 3] | |
| Brent & Harrow | Krupesh Hirani [lower-alpha 2] | Stefan Bucovineanul-Voloseniuc | Nida Al-Fulaij | Jonny Singh | Ian Price [lower-alpha 3] | |
| City & East | Unmesh Desai [lower-alpha 2] | Freddie Downing | Joe Hudson-Small | Patrick Thomas Stillman | David Kenton Sandground [lower-alpha 3] | Lois Austin (TUSC) Ak Goodman (Ind) |
| Croydon & Sutton | Maddie Henson | Neil Garratt [lower-alpha 2] | Peter Underwood | Trish Fivey | Marian Lynn Newton [lower-alpha 3] | April Jacqueline Ashley (TUSC) |
| Ealing & Hillingdon | Bassam Mahfouz [lower-alpha 4] | Henry Higgins | Jess Lee | Kuldev Singh Sehra | Anthony Michael Goodwin [lower-alpha 3] | |
| Enfield & Haringey | Joanne McCartney [lower-alpha 2] | Calum McGillivray | Katie Knight | Guy Russo | Roger Gravett [lower-alpha 3] | |
| Greenwich & Lewisham | Len Duvall [lower-alpha 2] | Kieran Terry | Karin Tearle | Josh Matthews | Mark George Simpson [lower-alpha 3] | |
| Havering & Redbridge | Guy Owen Williams | Keith Prince [lower-alpha 2] | Kim Arrowsmith | Fraser Kingsley Coppin | Alex Wilson [lower-alpha 3] | Mohammed Asif (Ind) Andy Walker (TUSC) |
| Lambeth & Southwark | Marina Ahmad [lower-alpha 2] | Christine Ann Wallace | Claire Frances Sheppard [lower-alpha 3] | Chris French | Tony Sharp [lower-alpha 3] | Adam John Lewis Buick (SPGB) |
| Merton & Wandsworth | Leonie Cooper [lower-alpha 2] | Ellie Cox | Pippa Maslin | Sue Wixley [lower-alpha 3] | Tania Marszalek [lower-alpha 3] | |
| North East | Sem Moema [lower-alpha 2] | Pearce Branigan | Antoinette Fernandez | Rebecca Jones | Tony Glover [lower-alpha 3] | Tan Bui (Ind) Nancy Taaffe (TUSC) |
| South West | Marcela Benedetti | Ron Mushiso [lower-alpha 4] | Chas Warlow | Gareth David Roberts [lower-alpha 3] | Steve Chilcott [lower-alpha 3] | Abigail Dawn Hardy (Ind) |
| West Central | James Tacuma Small-Edwards | Tony Devenish [lower-alpha 2] | Rajiv Rahul Sinha | Christophe Noblet | Nicola Pateman [lower-alpha 3] | |
| Source: London Elects | ||||||
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