London Conservatives | |
|---|---|
| Leader in the London Assembly | Neil Garratt |
| Deputy Leader in the London Assembly | Emma Best |
| Chairman | Clare Hambro |
| Deputy chairpersons | Peter Smallwood & Martin Hislop |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Preceded by | Municipal Reform Party |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing [1] [2] |
| National affiliation | Conservatives |
| Colours | Blue |
| House of Commons (Parliamentary constituencies in London) | 21 / 73 |
| London Assembly | 9 / 25 |
| Local councillors in London [3] | 403 / 1,817 |
| Council control in London [3] | 6 / 32 |
| Directly elected Mayoralties in London | 1 / 5 |
| Website | |
| City Hall Conservatives Conservative Party in London | |
The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.
The party's main competition is with the larger London Labour Party for office.
The Conservatives hold 21 of 73 London seats in the House of Commons. As of the 2021 election, they hold 9 of 25 seats in the London Assembly. As of the 2022 elections, the party controls 5 of 32 London borough councils, has 1 of 5 directly elected borough mayors and 404 out of the 1,817 borough councillors.
The party held the Mayoralty of London from 2008 until losing to Labour in 2016.
| Election | Candidate | Results |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Steven Norris |  Not elected |
| 2004 | Steven Norris | Not elected |
| 2008 | Boris Johnson |  Elected |
| 2012 | Boris Johnson | Elected |
| 2016 | Zac Goldsmith | Not elected |
| 2021 | Shaun Bailey | Not elected |
| 2024 | Susan Hall | Not elected |
| Council | Councillors |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 0 / 51 |
| Barnet | 22 / 63 |
| Bexley | 33 / 45 |
| Brent | 5 / 57 |
| Bromley | 36 / 58 |
| Camden | 3 / 55 |
| Croydon | 33 / 70 |
| Ealing | 5 / 70 |
| Enfield | 25 / 63 |
| Greenwich | 3 / 55 |
| Hackney | 5 / 57 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 10 / 50 |
| Haringey | 0 / 57 |
| Harrow | 31 / 55 |
| Havering | 23 / 55 |
| Hillingdon | 30 / 53 |
| Hounslow | 10 / 62 |
| Islington | 0 / 51 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 35 / 50 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 3 / 48 |
| Lambeth | 0 / 63 |
| Lewisham | 0 / 54 |
| Merton | 7 / 57 |
| Newham | 0 / 66 |
| Redbridge | 5 / 63 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 1 / 54 |
| Southwark | 0 / 63 |
| Sutton | 20 / 55 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1 / 45 |
| Waltham Forest | 13 / 60 |
| Wandsworth | 22 / 58 |
| Westminster | 23 / 54 |
| Mayoralty | Mayor | |
|---|---|---|
| Croydon | Jason Perry | |
| Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MPs elected | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,205,129 | 32.0% |  | 21 / 73 |  |
| Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MEPs elected | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | N/A | 0 / 10 | ||||
| 1984 | 0 / 10 | |||||
| 1989 | 0 / 10 | |||||
| 1994 | 1 / 10 | |||||
| 1999 | 372,989 | 32.7% | unknown | 4 / 10 |  3 | |
| 2004 | 504,941 | 26.8% | 5.9% | 3 / 9 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 479,037 | 27.4% | 0.6% | 3 / 8 | | |
| 2014 | 495,639 | 22.5% | 4.8% | 2 / 8 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 177,964 | 7.9% | 14.6% | 0 / 8 | 2 | |
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Conservatives in elections to the Greater London Council. The GLC was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.
| Date | Leader | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | Councillors | Change | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 956,543 | 40.1% | N/A | 36 / 100 | N/A | Labour win | |
| 1967 | Desmond Plummer | 1,136,092 | 52.6% | 12.5% | 82 / 100 | 46 | Conservative win |
| 1970 | Desmond Plummer | 971,227 | 50.6% | 2.0% | 65 / 100 | 17 | Conservative win |
| 1973 | Desmond Plummer | 743,123 | 38.0% | 12.6 | 32 / 92 | 33 | Labour win |
| 1977 | Horace Cutler | 1,177,390 | 52.5% | 14.5% | 64 / 92 | 32 | Conservative win |
| 1981 | Horace Cutler | 894,234 | 39.7% | 12.8 | 41 / 92 | 23 | Labour win |
The table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Mayoral elections since 2000.
| Election | Candidate | 1st Round vote | 2nd Round Vote | Result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Steven Norris | 464,434 | 27.1% | 564,137 | 42.1 | Lost | ||
| 2004 | Steven Norris | 542,423 | 29.1% | 667,180 | 44.6 | Lost | ||
| 2008 | Boris Johnson | 1,043,761 | 43.2% | 1,168,738 | 53.3 | Win | ||
| 2012 | Boris Johnson | 971,931 | 44.0% | 1,054,811 | 51.5 | Win | ||
| 2016 | Zac Goldsmith | 909,755 | 35.0% | 994,614 | 43.2 | Lost | ||
| 2021 | Shaun Bailey | 893,051 | 35.3% | 977,601 | 44.8 | Lost | ||
Since the Elections Act 2022, London mayoral elections have operated under the first-past-the-post voting system. Therefore, there is no longer a second round.
| Election | Candidate | Vote | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Susan Hall | 812,397 | 32.7% | Lost | |
The table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Assembly elections since 2000.
| Election | Leader | Votes (constituency) | Votes (region) | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | |||
| 2000 | Eric Ollerenshaw | 526,422 | 33.2 | 481,053 | 29.0 | 9 / 25 |
| 2004 | Bob Neill | 562,047 | 31.2 | 533,696 | 28.5 | 9 / 25 |
| 2008 | Richard Barnes | 900,569 | 37.4 | 835,535 | 34.1 | 11 / 25 |
| 2012 | James Cleverly | 722,280 | 32.7 | 708,528 | 32.0 | 9 / 25 |
| 2016 | Gareth Bacon | 812,415 | 31.1 | 764,230 | 29.2 | 8 / 25 |
| 2021 | Susan Hall | 833,021 | 32.0 | 795,081 | 30.7 | 9 / 25 |
The table below shows the London Conservatives results in elections for the London Boroughs.
| Year | % of Vote | Number of Councillors | Number of Councils |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 668 / 1,859 | 9 / 32 | |
| 1968 | 1,438 / 1,863 | 28 / 32 | |
| 1971 | 597 / 1,863 | 10 / 32 | |
| 1974 | 40.8 | 713 / 1,867 | 13 / 32 |
| 1978 | 48.7 | 960 / 1,908 | 17 / 32 |
| 1982 | 42.2 | 984 / 1,914 | 17 / 32 |
| 1986 | 35.4 | 685 / 1,914 | 11 / 32 |
| 1990 | 37.8 | 731 / 1,914 | 12 / 32 |
| 1994 | 31.2 | 519 / 1,917 | 4 / 32 |
| 1998 | 32.0 | 538 / 1,917 | 4 / 32 |
| 2002 | 34.1 | 654 / 1,861 | 8 / 32 |
| 2006 | 34.9 | 785 / 1,861 | 14 / 32 |
| 2010 | 31.7 | 717 / 1,861 | 11 / 32 |
| 2014 | 26.4 | 612 / 1,861 | 9 / 32 |
| 2018 | 28.8 | 508 / 1,861 | 7 / 32 |
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...the Conservative Party's history in incorporating ethnic minorities, and the recent post-racial turn within the party whereby increasing party diversity has coincided with an increasing turn to the Right
[...] 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
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