The London Conservatives won 404 of 1,817 borough seats and control of 6 of 32 boroughs at the 2022 London local elections. The party currently has 387 councillors and controls 6 boroughs, as shown in the table below.[4]
The party's best result was at the 1987 general election, when it won 58 of 84 seats in London. The London Conservatives won 9 of 75 seats at the most recent general election in 2024.
The London Conservatives' best result was at the first election in 1979, when they won 9 of 10 seats in London. The party's worst result was at the final election in 2019, when they won no seats.
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Conservatives in elections to the Greater London Council (GLC). The GLC was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985 and its powers were devolved to the London boroughs and other entities. All GLC elections were conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system.
The party's best result was at the 1967 GLC election, when it won 82 of 100 seats.
Blue indicates constituencies won by the London Conservatives at the 2024 London Assembly election. The party won three constituencies and five London-wide party list seats, for a total of eight seats.
The party's best result was at the 2008 London Assembly election, when it won 11 of 25 seats. The London Conservatives won 8 of 25 seats at the most recent London Assembly election in 2024.
The London Conservatives have won two London mayoral elections: 2008 and 2012, both times with Boris Johnson as the party's candidate. The London Conservatives' best result was at the 2008 election when Johnson won 53.2% of the vote including transfers. The party won 32.7% of the vote at the most recent election in 2024.
The party's best result was at the 1968 London local elections when it won 1,438 of 1,863 seats and overall control of 28 of 32 boroughs. The London Conservatives won 404 seats and overall control of 5 boroughs at the most recent elections in 2022.
↑Bale, Tim (March 2023). The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation. Cambridge: Polity. pp.3–8, 291, et passim. ISBN9781509546015. Retrieved 12 September 2023. [...] rather than the installation of a supposedly more 'technocratic' cabinet halting and even reversing any transformation on the part of the Conservative Party from a mainstream centre-right formation into an ersatz radical right-wing populist outfit, it could just as easily accelerate and accentuate it. Of course, radical right-wing populist parties are about more than migration and, indeed, culture wars more generally. Typically, they also put a premium on charismatic leafership and, if in office, on the rights of the executive over other branches of government and any intermediate institutions. And this is exactly what we have seen from the Conservative Party since 2019
*Co-operative Party candidates stand jointly with the Labour Party. ‡5 independent MPs work together in the Independent Alliance, 3 of whom are also in Your Party. †Sinn Féin have elected members and offices at Westminster, but as abstentionists do not take their seats.
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