2004 London Assembly election

An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004, along with the 2004 London mayoral election.

2004 London Assembly election
10 June 2004
25 London Assembly Seats
13 seats needed for majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bob Neill[1] Toby Harris[2] Graham Tope[3]
Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Bexley and Bromley Brent and Harrow (lost) Londonwide
Last election 9 seats 9 seats 4 seats
Seats won 9 7 5
Seat change 2 1
Constituency Vote 562,047 444,808 332,237
% and swing 31.2% 0.2% 24.7% 6.9% 18.4% 0.5%
Regional Vote 533,696 468,247 316,218
% and swing 28.5% 0.5% 25.0% 5.3% 16.9% 2.1%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Darren Johnson Damian Hockney
Party Green UKIP
Leader's seat Londonwide Londonwide[4]
Last election 3 seats 0 seats
Seats won 2 2
Seat change 1 2
Constituency Vote 138,242 180,516
% and swing 7.7% 2.6% 10.0% 9.9%
Regional Vote 160,445 156,780
% and swing 8.6% 2.5% 8.4% 6.3%
The left side shows constituency winners of the election by their party colours. The right side shows regional winners of the election for the additional members by their party colours.

The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies, nine of which were won by the Conservatives and five by the Labour Party. An additional eleven members were allocated by a London wide top-up vote, with the proviso that parties must win at least 5% of the vote to qualify for list seats. This latter rule prevented both the British National Party and the Respect Party from winning a seat each as both fell just short of the 5% threshold.

This election saw losses for Labour and the Greens and gains for both the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, who achieved their first representation in the Assembly since its creation in 2000.

Results
 
London Assembly election, 2004
Parties Additional member system Total seats
Constituency Region
Votes % +/− Seats +/− Votes % +/− Seats +/− Total +/− %
Conservative 562,047 31.2 2.0 9 1 533,696 28.5 0.5 0 1 9 36.0
Labour 444,808 24.7 6.9 5 1 468,247 25.0 5.3 2 1 7 2 28.0
Liberal Democrats 332,237 18.4 0.5 0 316,218 16.9 2.1 5 1 5 1 20.0
Green 138,242 7.7 2.5 0 160,445 8.6 2.5 2 1 2 1 8.0
UKIP 180,516 10.0 9.9 0 156,780 8.4 6.3 2 2 2 2 8.0
BNP - - - - - 90,365 4.8 1.9 0 0 -
Respect 82,301 4.6 N/A 0 87,533 4.7 N/A 0 0 -
CPA 43,322 2.4 N/A 0 54,914 2.9 0.4 0 0 -
Others 19,064 1.1 4.8 0 4,968 0.3 N/A 0 0 -
 Total1,802,53714 1,873,166 1125 
Constituency Vote
Conservative
 
 31.2%
Labour
 
 24.7%
Liberal Democrats
 
 18.4%
UKIP
 
 10.0%
Green
 
 7.7%
Respect
 
 4.6%
CPA
 
 2.4%
Others
 
 1.1%
Regional Vote
Conservative
 
 28.5%
Labour
 
 25.0%
Liberal Democrats
 
 16.9%
Green
 
 8.6%
UKIP
 
 8.4%
BNP
 
 4.8%
Respect
 
 4.7%
CPA
 
 2.9%
Others
 
 0.3%
Assembly seats
Conservative
 
 36.0%
Labour
 
 28.0%
Liberal Democrats
 
 20.0%
Green
 
 8.0%
UKIP
 
 8.0%

The Conservative Party gained Brent and Harrow from Labour (who lost 7.6% of their vote), however they lost it again in the 2008 election. There were also large swings away from Labour in Barnet and Camden, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Greenwich and Lewisham, Havering and Redbridge and West Central. The Liberal Democrats lost votes in most constituencies, but made gains in Enfield and Haringey, Lambeth and Southwark and Merton and Wandsworth. UKIP gained large percentages of the vote in Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Greenwich and Lewisham and Havering and Redbridge.

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  • Overall turnout: 36.97%

London Assembly representation
Party Seats Loss/Gain
Conservative 9 ±0
Labour 7 –2
Liberal Democrats 5 +1
Green 2 –1
UKIP 2 +2
Total 25

New members

Defeated members

Retiring members

London-wide lists
London Assembly Election 2004 — London-wide lists
NameCandidates Elected to AssemblyNot Elected
|| Alliance for Diversity in Community, UppalInder Singh Uppal, Vasudev Kalidas Patel, Pritpal Singh Gahbri
British National Party || || Jason Paul Douglas, Barry John Roberts, Julian Peter Leppert, Richard Barnbrook, Mary Teresa Culnane, Clifford John Le May, Alan Herbert Bailey, Anthony Young, Lawrence Rustem, Carlos Cortiglia, Gareth William Jones
Christian Peoples Alliance || || Ram Gidoomal, David Bruno Campanale, Alan Craig, Gladstone Olufemi Macaulay, Peter James Flower, Susan Jane May, Genevieve Mary Hibbs, Juliet Frances Hawkins, Peter Hartley Wolstenholme, Jillian Mary Mclachlan, Ellen Sheila Greco
Conservative Party || || Eric Ollerenshaw, Andrew Boff, Rebekah Gilbert, Victoria Borwick, Robert John Blackman, William Guy Darrell Norton, Reza Ahmed Shafi Choudhury, Cormach Joseph Moore, Adrian Carey Knowles, Gareth Andrew Bacon, Bernard Arthur Gentry, Andrew John Retter, Tony Cox, Philip John Briscoe, Yvonne Lydia Rivlin, Lionel David Zetter, David Tyrie Williams, Jonathan Harold Gough, Matthew William Laban, Simon Andrew Peter Jones, Sean Martin Fear, Darshan Suri
Green Party of England and Wales || Darren Johnson
Jennifer Jones || Noel Lynch, Keith Magnum, Jayne Forbes, Danny Bates,Shane Collins, Ruth Jenkins, Mischa Borris, Thomas Joseph Walsh, Ashley Gunstock
Labour Party || Nicky Gavron
Murad Qureshi || Samantha Heath, Sally Mulready, Abdul Asad, Karen Helena Hunte, Virendra Kumar Sharma, Martin Jonathan Lindsay, Bernadette Lappage, Raj Chandarana, Muhammed Abdal Ullah
Liberal Democrats || Lynne Featherstone
Graham Tope
Sally Hamwee
Michael Tuffrey
Elizabeth Doocey|| Geoffrey Pope, Duncan Keith Borrowman, Monroe Palmer, Meral Hussein Ece, Steven Howard Gauge, Christopher David Noyce
Respect
(George Galloway) || || Lindsey German, Oliur Rahmanm, Linda Smith, Janet Noble, Sait Akgul, Salvinder Dhillon, Michael Rosen, Gregory Tucker, Tansy Hoskins, Kevin Cobham, Abdurahman Jafar
United Kingdom Independence Party || Damian Hockney
Peter Hulme-Cross || Adrian Roberts, Paul Cronin, Lawrence Webb, Robin Lambert, John Dunford, Ralph Steven Atkinson, Frederick James Rolph, Daniel William Moss, Heather Ann Bennett

References
  1. "London Assembly Member Bob Neill". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. "London Assembly Member Toby Harris". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  3. "London Assembly Member Graham Tope". london.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  4. Not the incumbent, but stood in this seat and won.
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