London Labour | |
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Mayor of London | Sadiq Khan |
Chair | Maggi Ferncombe [1] |
London Assembly Group Leader | Len Duvall |
House of Commons Group Chair | Dawn Butler [2] |
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 | 1,146 / 1,817 |
Council control | 21 / 32 |
Directly elected mayors | 3 / 5 |
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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.
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Politics of London |
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Council | Councillors |
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Barking and Dagenham | 51 / 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 |
Labour is the only political party to have any seats in the City of London Corporation's Court of Common Council.
Common Councilman | Ward |
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Helen Fentiman | Aldersgate |
Stephen Goodman | Aldersgate |
Natasha Lloyd-Owen | Cripplegate |
Anne Corbett | Cripplegate |
Frances Leach | Cripplegate |
Jason Pritchard | Portsoken |
Mayoralty | Mayor | |
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Greater London | Sadiq Khan | |
Hackney | Philip Glanville | |
Lewisham | Damien Egan | |
Newham | Rokhsana Fiaz |
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results at UK general elections since the area of Greater London was created. [4]
Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MPs elected | Change | |
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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 | 59 / 75 | 10 |
The table below shows the results gained by the London Labour Party in elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 1994, MEPs were elected from 10 individual constituencies by first-past-the-post; since 1999, MEPs were elected from a London-wide regional list by proportional representation.
Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MEPs elected | Change | |
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1979 | 566,525 | 35.0% | N/A | 1 / 10 | N/A | |
1984 | 683,789 | 41.0% | 4.2% | 5 / 10 | 4 | |
1989 | 778,589 | 41.6% | 0.6% | 7 / 10 | 2 | |
1994 | 821,876 | 50.2% | 8.5% | 9 / 10 | 2 | |
1999 | 399,466 | 35.0% | 15.2% | 4 / 10 | 5 | |
2004 | 466,584 | 24.8% | 10.3% | 3 / 9 | 1 | |
2009 | 372,590 | 21.3% | 3.5% | 2 / 8 | 1 | |
2014 | 806,959 | 36.7% | 15.4% | 4 / 8 | 2 | |
2019 | 536,810 | 23.9% | 12.7% | 2 / 8 | 2 | |
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.
Party | Labour | Conservative |
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Seats won | 64 | 36 |
Popular vote | 1,063,390 | 956,543 |
Percentage | 44.6% | 40.1% |
Date | Leader | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | Councillors | Change | Result | |
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1964 | 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.
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the London Assembly.
Date | Constituency Vote | % of Vote | Change | Regional Vote | % of Vote | Change | AMs | Change | |
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2000 | 501,296 | 31.6% | N/A | 502,874 | 30.3% | N/A | 9 / 25 | N/A | |
2004 | 444,808 | 24.7% | 6.9% | 468,247 | 25.0% | 5.3% | 7 / 25 | 2 | |
2008 | 673,855 | 28.0% | 3.3% | 665,443 | 27.1% | 2.7% | 8 / 25 | 1 | |
2012 | 933,438 | 42.3% | 14.3% | 911,204 | 41.1% | 13.5% | 12 / 25 | 4 | |
2016 | 1,138,576 | 43.5% | 1.2% | 1,054,801 | 40.3% | 0.8% | 12 / 25 | ||
2021 | 1,083,215 | 41.7% | 1.8% | 986,609 | 38.1% | 2.2% | 11 / 25 | 1 |
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the Mayor of London.
Date | Candidate | 1st Round vote | % of vote | 2nd Round vote | % of vote | Result | Notes | |
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2000 | Frank Dobson | 223,884 | 13.1% | Eliminated | Eliminated | Independent win | Ex-GLC leader and Labour MP Ken Livingstone ran as an independent and won. | |
2004 | Ken Livingstone | 685,548 | 36.8% | 828,390 | 55.4% | Labour win | ||
2008 | Ken Livingstone | 893,887 | 37.0% | 1,028,966 | 46.8% | Conservative win | ||
2012 | Ken Livingstone | 889,918 | 40.3% | 992,273 | 48.5% | Conservative win | ||
2016 | Sadiq Khan | 1,148,716 | 44.2% | 1,310,143 | 56.8% | Labour win | ||
2021 | Sadiq Khan | 1,013,721 | 40.0% | 1,206,034 | 55.2% | Labour win | ||
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the London Boroughs.
Date | Vote share | Change | Councillors | Change | Councils | Change | |
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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% [5] | 4.8% | 1,173 / 1,817 | 45 | 21 / 32 | 0 | |
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