London Labour Party
The London Labour Party, branded London Labour, is the devolved, regional part of the Labour Party in London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding all the executive mayoralties, a majority of local councils, council seats and parliamentary seats, and a plurality of assembly seats.
London Labour Party | |
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Mayor of London | Sadiq Khan |
Chair | Jim Kelly |
London Assembly Group Leader | Len Duvall AM |
House of Commons Group Chair | Emily Thornberry MP |
Headquarters | Southside, 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT |
Ideology | Social democracy Democratic socialism[1] Pro-Europeanism[2] |
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) | 49 / 73 |
London Assembly | 12 / 25 |
Court of Common Council | 6 / 100 |
Councillors in London | 1,128 / 1,851 |
Council control in London | 21 / 32 |
Directly-elected Mayors in London | 5 / 5 |
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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
- Marsha de Cordova - Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities
- Shadow Ministers
- Rosena Allin-Khan - Shadow Minister for Mental Health (Attending Shadow Cabinet)
London Assembly Members
Councillors
Council | Councillors |
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Barking and Dagenham | 51 / 51 |
Barnet | 25 / 63 |
Bexley | 11 / 45 |
Brent | 60 / 63 |
Bromley | 8 / 60 |
Camden | 43 / 54 |
Croydon | 41 / 70 |
Ealing | 57 / 69 |
Enfield | 46 / 63 |
Greenwich | 42 / 51 |
Hackney | 52 / 57 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 35 / 46 |
Haringey | 42 / 57 |
Harrow | 35 / 63 |
Havering | 5 / 54 |
Hillingdon | 21 / 65 |
Hounslow | 51 / 60 |
Islington | 47 / 48 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 13 / 50 |
Kingston upon Thames | 0 / 48 |
Lambeth | 57 / 63 |
Lewisham | 54 / 54 |
Merton | 34 / 60 |
Newham | 60 / 60 |
Redbridge | 51 / 63 |
Richmond upon Thames | 0 / 54 |
Southwark | 48 / 63 |
Sutton | 0 / 54 |
Tower Hamlets | 42 / 45 |
Waltham Forest | 46 / 60 |
Wandsworth | 26 / 60 |
Westminster | 19 / 60 |
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 |
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Richard Crossan | Aldersgate |
Natasha Lloyd-Owen | Castle Baynard |
Mary Durcan | Cripplegate |
William Pimlott | Cripplegate |
Munsur Ali | Portsoken |
Jason Pritchard | Portsoken |
Directly-elected Mayors
Mayoralty | Mayor | |
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Greater London | Sadiq Khan | |
Hackney | Philip Glanville | |
Lewisham | Damien Egan | |
Newham | Rokhsana Fiaz | |
Tower Hamlets | John Biggs |
Electoral performance
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.[3]
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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Seats won | 64 | 36 |
Popular vote | 1,063,390 | 956,543 |
Percentage | 44.6% | 40.1% |
Date | 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 | 732,669 | 34.0% | 10.6% | 18 / 100 | 46 | Conservative win | |
1970 | 766,272 | 39.9% | 5.9% | 35 / 100 | 17 | Conservative win | |
1973 | 928,034 | 47.4% | 7.5% | 58 / 92 | 23 | Labour win | |
1977 | 737,194 | 32.9% | 14.5% | 28 / 92 | 30 | Conservative win | |
1981 | 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 | |
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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 | ||
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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 | |
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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 | ||
2020 | Sadiq Khan | |||||||
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 | |
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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 | 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 | |
Chairs
- 1915: John Stokes
- 1916: Fred Bramley
- 1919: Thomas Naylor
- 1933: Harold Clay
- 1948: Jock Tiffin
- 1952: Charles Brandon
- 1956: Bob Mellish
- 1977: Arthur Latham
- 1986: Glenys Thornton
- 1991: Jim Fitzpatrick
- 2000: Chris Robbins
- 2002: Len Duvall
- 2019: Jim Kelly
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- @SadiqKhan (23 September 2019). "I do not believe this decision reflects the views of the overwhelming majority of Labour members who desperately want to stop Brexit. Labour IS a Remain party. I will continue campaigning with @LondonLabour to give the public the final say and stop Brexit" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 February 2020 – via Twitter.
- http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/flatfile.html