The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority. The role was created in 2000 after the Greater London devolution referendum in 1998,and was the first directly elected mayor in the United Kingdom.
Felicia Nicolette Gavron was a British politician who was deputy mayor of London under Ken Livingstone from 2000 to 2003 and 2004 to 2008. She was a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2021 and was the former Labour candidate for the 2004 London mayoral election.
Leonard Lloyd Duvall OBE is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been deputy chair of the London Assembly since May 2024. Additionally,Duvall has been serving as the Leader of the Labour Group in the London Assembly since 2004,and has been the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Greenwich and Lewisham since 2000. Duvall is a former chair of both the Metropolitan Police Authority and the London Labour Party Regional Board.
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004,along with the 2004 London mayoral election.
A Deputy Mayor is a member of the London Mayoral cabinet,in the executive arm of the Greater London Authority. They serve as political advisors with responsibilities and powers corresponding to portfolios delegated by the Mayor. One of them must be designated as the Statutory Deputy Mayor,a member of the London Assembly who serves as the temporary Mayor during a vacancy or temporary incapacity of the Mayor.
Enfield and Haringey is a constituency represented in the London Assembly.
The London mayoral election for the office of mayor of London takes place every four years. The first election was held in May 2000,and six subsequent elections have taken place. The latest mayoral election took place in 2024.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services since July 2024. A member of the Labour party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South since 2024. In addition,she was also the MP for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018,and served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021.
Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He was Deputy Chair of the London Assembly from 2023 to 2024,and the first Labour member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon,from 2012 until 2024.
Fiona Ruth Twycross,Baroness Twycross is a Labour Party politician. She was born in South London before moving to Oxford. She studied at Cheney School in Oxford before going on to study Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in contemporary Scandinavian literature. She subsequently studied Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck,University of London. She has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Gambling and a Baroness-in-Waiting since July 2024.
The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London,on the same day as the London Assembly election. It was the fifth election to the position of mayor,which was created in 2000 following a referendum in Greater London. The election used a supplementary vote system.
The 2016 London Assembly election was an election held on 5 May 2016 to elect the members of the London Assembly. It took place on the same day as the London mayoral election and the United Kingdom local elections. Four parties had AMs in the previous Assembly:London Labour led by Len Duvall,London Conservatives led by Gareth Bacon,London Greens led by Siân Berry,and the London Liberal Democrats led by Caroline Pidgeon.
Caroline Russell is a British politician and activist serving as Leader of the Green Party in the London Assembly since October 2018,and a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since May 2016.
The 2021 London mayoral election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of London. It was held simultaneously with elections for the London Assembly,other local elections across England and Wales,and devolved elections in Scotland and Wales. The mayoral and Assembly elections were to be held on the 7th of May 2020,but in March 2020 the government announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 London Assembly election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the members of the London Assembly,alongside the 2021 London mayoral election. The mayoral and Assembly elections were originally to be held on 7 May 2020,but on 13 March 2020 it was announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the sixth election since the Assembly was established in 2000. Due to the previous term being extended to 5 years,those elected would only serve a three-year term until the next election in 2024. The election was held on the same day in 2021 as other elections in the UK;the UK local elections,Scottish Parliament election,and Welsh Senedd election.
Susan Mary Hall is a British politician who has served as a Member of the London Assembly since 2017 and a councillor on Harrow London Borough Council since 2006. She was leader of the London Conservatives on the London Assembly from December 2019 until May 2023. Hall was the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election,finishing in second place behind incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan.
Hina Bokhari is a British politician and educator. A member of the Liberal Democrats,Bokhari has served as a Member of the London Assembly since the 2021 election. Upon her election,she became one of the first Muslim women to serve in the assembly.
Marina Masuma Ahmad is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the London Assembly Member for Lambeth and Southwark since the 2021 London Assembly election. She represented Crystal Palace and was an education spokesperson on Bromley Council.
The 2024 London mayoral election was held on 2 May 2024 to elect the next mayor of London. It took place simultaneously with elections to the London Assembly,some local council by-elections in London and regular local elections elsewhere in England and Wales. Following the Elections Act 2022,voting in this election took place under the first-past-the-post system for the first time,replacing the supplementary vote system. The results of the election were announced on 4 May 2024.
The 2024 election to the London Assembly was held on 2 May concurrently with the London mayoral election and local elections across England and Wales.
