London Labour

London Labour
London Labour
Mayor of London	Sadiq Khan
Chair	Maggi Ferncombe
London Assembly Group Leader	Len Duvall
House of Commons Group Chair	Dawn Butler
Headquarters	Southside, 105 Victoria Street; London ; SW1E 6QT
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Labour Party
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance ; Socialist International (observer)
Colours	Red
House of Commons (London seats)	59 / 75
London Assembly	11 / 25
Court of Common Council	6 / 100
Councillors	1,087 / 1,817
Council control	21 / 32
Directly elected mayors	3 / 5
Website
	www.labourinlondon.org.uk
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Last updated February 28, 2026

London Labour is the devolved, regional part of the Labour Party in Greater London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding a majority of the executive mayoralties, a majority of local councils, council seats and parliamentary seats, and a plurality of assembly seats.

Current representatives

Members of Parliament

Cabinet

London Assembly Members

AM^[4]	Constituency
Marina Ahmad	Lambeth and Southwark
Elly Baker	Party-list (1)
Anne Clarke	Barnet and Camden
Leonie Cooper	Merton and Wandsworth
Unmesh Desai	City and East
Len Duvall (Leader)	Greenwich and Lewisham
Joanne McCartney	Enfield and Haringey
Sem Moema	North East
Bassam Mahfouz	Ealing and Hillingdon
Krupesh Hirani	Brent and Harrow
James Small-Edwards	West Central

Councillors

Council	Councillors^[5]
Barking and Dagenham	47 / 51
Barnet	41 / 63
Bexley	12 / 45
Brent	49 / 59
Bromley	12 / 59
Camden	46 / 55
Croydon	34 / 71
Ealing	59 / 70
Enfield	38 / 63
Greenwich	52 / 55
Hackney	50 / 57
Hammersmith and Fulham	40 / 50
Haringey	50 / 57
Harrow	24 / 55
Havering	8 / 55
Hillingdon	23 / 65
Hounslow	50 / 60
Islington	48 / 51
Kensington and Chelsea	13 / 50
Kingston upon Thames	0 / 48
Lambeth	58 / 63
Lewisham	54 / 54
Merton	31 / 57
Newham	64 / 66
Redbridge	58 / 63
Richmond upon Thames	0 / 54
Southwark	52 / 63
Sutton	0 / 54
Tower Hamlets	19 / 45
Waltham Forest	47 / 60
Wandsworth	35 / 58
Westminster	31 / 54

Common Councilmen

Labour is the only political party to have any seats in the City of London Corporation's Court of Common Council.

Common Councilman	Ward
Helen Fentiman	Aldersgate
Stephen Goodman	Aldersgate
Natasha Lloyd-Owen	Cripplegate
Anne Corbett	Cripplegate
Frances Leach	Cripplegate
Jason Pritchard	Portsoken

Directly-elected Mayors

Mayoralty		Mayor
	Greater London	Sadiq Khan
	Hackney	Philip Glanville
	Lewisham	Damien Egan
	Newham	Rokhsana Fiaz

Electoral performance

2024 consistency results LondonParliamentaryConstituency2024Results.svg — 2024 consistency results

UK Parliament elections

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results at UK general elections since the area of Greater London was created.^[6]

	Votes won	% of Votes	Change	MPs elected	Change
Feb 1974	1,587,065	40.4%	5.3%	50 / 92	5
Oct 1974	1,540,462	43.9%	3.5%	51 / 92	1
1979	1,459,085	39.6%	4.3%	42 / 92	9
1983	1,031,539	29.8%	9.8%	26 / 84	16
1987	1,136,903	31.5%	1.7%	23 / 84	3
1992	1,332,424	37.1%	5.6%	35 / 84	12
1997	1,643,329	49.5%	12.4%	57 / 74	22
2001	1,306,869	47.3%	2.2%	55 / 74	2
2005	1,135,687	38.9%	8.4%	44 / 74	11
2010	1,245,637	36.6%	2.3%	38 / 73	6
2015	1,545,080	43.7%	7.1%	45 / 73	7
2017	2,087,010	54.6%	10.9%	49 / 73	4
2019	1,810,810	48.1%	6.5%	49 / 73
2024 ^[7]	1,432,622	43.0%	5.1%	59 / 75	10

European Parliament elections

During the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union (1973–2020), Greater London participated in European Parliament elections, held every five years from 1979 until 2019.^[8] The table below shows the London Labour results in elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 1994, London members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected from ten individual constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; from 1999 to 2019, MEPs were elected from a London-wide regional list by proportional representation.

Election	Leader	Votes			Seats		Pos.
Election	Leader	No.	%	±	No.	±	Pos.
1979	Jim Callaghan	566,525	36.7	N/A	1 / 10	N/A	2nd
1984	Neil Kinnock	683,789	41.0	4.3	5 / 10	4	1st
1989	Neil Kinnock	778,589	41.6	0.6	7 / 10	2	1st
1994	Margaret Beckett	826,047	50.3	8.7	9 / 10	2	1st
1999	Tony Blair	399,466	35.0	15.3	4 / 10	5	1st
2004	Tony Blair	466,584	24.8	10.3	3 / 9	1	2nd
2009	Gordon Brown	372,590	21.3	3.5	2 / 8	1	2nd
2014	Ed Miliband	806,959	36.7	15.4	4 / 8	2	1st
2019	Jeremy Corbyn	536,810	23.9	12.7	2 / 8	2	2nd

Regional elections

Greater London Council elections

The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the Greater London Council. The GLC was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.

	Leader	Votes won	% of Votes	Change	Councillors	Change	Result
1964	Bill Fiske	1,063,390	44.6%	N/A	64 / 100	N/A	Labour win
1967	Bill Fiske	732,669	34.0%	10.6%	18 / 100	46	Conservative win
1970	Reg Goodwin	766,272	39.9%	5.9%	35 / 100	17	Conservative win
1973	Reg Goodwin	928,034	47.4%	7.5%	58 / 92	23	Labour win
1977	Reg Goodwin	737,194	32.9%	14.5%	28 / 92	30	Conservative win
1981	Andrew McIntosh	939,457	41.8%	8.9%	50 / 92	22	Labour win

Between 1986 and 2000 there was no city-wide governmental body in Greater London.

London Assembly elections

The table below shows the London Labour results at London Assembly elections since the Greater London Authority was established in 2000. Assembly elections use the additional member system, a form of mixed member proportional representation, with 14 directly elected constituencies and 11 London-wide top-up seats.

The party's best results were at the 2012 and 2016 London Assembly elections, when it won 12 of 25 seats. London Labour won 11 of 25 seats at the most recent London Assembly election in 2024.

Election	Leader	Constituency			Party			Total Seats	±
Election	Leader	No.	%	Seats	No.	%	Seats	Total Seats	±
2000	Toby Harris	501,296	31.6%	6 / 14	502,874	30.3%	3 / 11	9 / 25	N/A
2004	Toby Harris	444,808	24.7%	5 / 14	468,247	25.0%	2 / 11	7 / 25	2
2008	Len Duvall	673,855	28.0%	6 / 14	665,443	27.1%	2 / 11	8 / 25	1
2012		933,438	42.3%	8 / 14	911,204	41.1%	4 / 11	12 / 25	4
2016		1,138,576	43.5%	9 / 14	1,054,801	40.3%	3 / 11	12 / 25
2021		1,083,215	41.7%	9 / 14	986,609	38.1%	2 / 11	11 / 25	1
2024		983,216	39.7%	10 / 14	951,056	38.4%	1 / 11	11 / 25

London Mayoral elections

Red indicates London Assembly constituencies won by London Labour at the 2024 London mayoral election. London-2024-mayor.svg — Red indicates London Assembly constituencies won by London Labour at the 2024 London mayoral election.

The table below shows the London Labour results in London Mayoral elections since the Greater London Authority was established in 2000. Elections between 2000 and 2021 were conducted using the supplementary vote system, which allowed voters to transfer votes from first to second preference candidates. The 2024 election used the first-past-the-post system.^[9]

London Labour have won four London mayoral elections: 2004, 2016, 2021, and 2024. London Labour's best result was at the 2016 election when Sadiq Khan won 56.8% of the vote including transfers. The party won 43.8% of the vote at the most recent election in 2024.

Election	Candidate	1st Round			2nd Round			Result
Election	Candidate	No.	%	±	No.	%	±	Result
2000	Frank Dobson	223,884	13.1	N/A	Eliminated			Lost
2004	Ken Livingstone	685,548	36.8	23.7	828,390	55.4	N/A	Won
2008		894,317	37.0	0.2	1,029,406	46.8	8.6	Lost
2012		889,918	40.3	3.3	992,273	48.5	1.6	Lost
2016	Sadiq Khan	1,148,716	44.2	3.9	1,310,143	56.8	8.4	Won
2021		1,013,721	40.0	4.2	1,206,034	55.2	1.6	Won
2024		1,088,225	43.8	3.8				Won

Borough council elections

The table below shows the London Labour results at London borough council elections since the London Government Act 1963 created the administrative area of Greater London in 1965. All borough council elections use the first-past-the-post voting system.

The party's best result was at the 1971 London local elections when it won 1,221 of 1,863 seats and overall control of 21 of 32 boroughs. London Labour won 1,173 seats and overall control of 21 boroughs at the most recent elections in 2022.

	Vote share	Change	Councillors	Change	Councils	Change
1964	—	N/A	1,112 / 1,859	N/A	20 / 32	N/A
1968	28.1%	N/A	350 / 1,863	762	3 / 32	17
1971	53.1%	25.0%	1,221 / 1,863	871	21 / 32	18
1974	42.9%	10.2%	1,090 / 1,867	131	18 / 32	3
1978	39.6%	3.3%	882 / 1,908	208	14 / 32	4
1982	30.4%	9.3%	781 / 1,914	101	12 / 32	2
1986	38.0%	7.7%	957 / 1,914	176	15 / 32	3
1990	40.8%	2.8%	925 / 1,914	32	14 / 32	1
1994	42.9%	2.1%	1,044 / 1,917	119	17 / 32	3
1998	42.2%	0.6%	1,050 / 1,917	6	18 / 32	1
2002	36.1%	6.2%	866 / 1,861	184	15 / 32	3
2006	30.1%	6.0%	685 / 1,861	181	7 / 32	8
2010	35.1%	5.0%	875 / 1,861	190	17 / 32	10
2014	43.0%	8.0%	1,060 / 1,851	185	20 / 32	3
2018	47.0%	4.0%	1,120 / 1,851	60	21 / 32	1
2022	42.2%^[10]	4.8%	1,173 / 1,817	45	21 / 32	0

References

↑ "Regional Executive Committee". London Labour. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
↑ Butler, Dawn (3 December 2021). "My message to Boris Johnson: stop treating Londoners as a political football". LabourList. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021. I am the chair of the London group of Labour MPs.
↑ http://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0
↑ "London Assembly members | LGOV". www.london.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
↑ http://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0
↑ "Historical Data and Plots". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk.
↑ "ElectionMapsUK GE2024 Supersheet". Election Maps UK. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
↑ Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918–2023, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. pp. 65–67. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
↑ Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918–2023, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 78. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
↑ Hill, Dave (8 May 2022). "London Borough Elections 2022: Results in detail". OnLondon. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

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[1] "Regional Executive Committee". London Labour. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

[2] Butler, Dawn (3 December 2021). "My message to Boris Johnson: stop treating Londoners as a political football". LabourList. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021. I am the chair of the London group of Labour MPs.

[3] ttp://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0

[4] "London Assembly members | LGOV". www.london.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

[5] ttp://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0

[6] "Historical Data and Plots". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk.

[7] "ElectionMapsUK GE2024 Supersheet". Election Maps UK. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2025.

[EP-8] Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918–2023, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. pp. 65–67. Retrieved 28 September 2023.

[9] Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918–2023, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 78. Retrieved 25 February 2026.

[10] Hill, Dave (8 May 2022). "London Borough Elections 2022: Results in detail". OnLondon. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

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