London Labour

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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 Democratic socialism
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)	47 / 73
London Assembly	11 / 25
Court of Common Council	6 / 100
Councillors in London	1,146 / 1,817
Council control in London	21 / 32
Directly-elected Mayors in London	3 / 5
Website
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Politics of London Political parties

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

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Members of Parliament

Shadow Cabinet

• Keir Starmer – Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Labour Party
• David Lammy – Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
• Emily Thornberry – Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade
• Steve Reed – Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Shadow Ministers

• Rosena Allin-Khan – Shadow Minister for Mental Health (attending Shadow Cabinet)

London Assembly Members

AM	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
Onkar Sahota	Ealing and Hillingdon
Krupesh Hirani	Brent and Harrow
Sakina Sheikh	Party-list (2)

Councillors

Council	Councillors
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	9 / 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

UK Parliament elections

Red indicates the seat won by Labour at the 2017 General Election.

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

Date		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

European Parliament elections

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
	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

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.

Party	Labour	Conservative
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
	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.

London Assembly elections

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
	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

London Mayoral elections

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
	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

Borough council elections

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the London Boroughs.

Date		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	431	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%	4.8%	1,173 / 1,817	45	21 / 32	0

See also

• London Conservatives
• London Liberal Democrats

References

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. ^ "London Assembly members | LGOV". www.london.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
4. ^ "Historical Data and Plots". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk.
5. ^ Hill, Dave (8 May 2022). "London Borough Elections 2022: Results in detail". OnLondon. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

External links

• Official website
• City Hall Labour
• London Labour on Twitter
• Your Councillors

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