An election to the
Assembly of
London
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took place on 10 June 2004, along with the
2004 London mayoral election.
The Assembly is elected by the
Additional Member System
The additional-member system (AMS) is a two-vote seat-linkage-based mixed electoral system used in the United Kingdom in which most legislator, representatives are elected in single-member districts (SMDs), and a fixed number of other "addition ...
. 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
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and the
Respect Party
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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
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, who achieved their first representation in the
Assembly since its creation in 2000.
Results
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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
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gained large percentages of the vote in
Bexley and Bromley,
Croydon and Sutton,
Greenwich and Lewisham and
Havering and Redbridge.
* Overall turnout: 36.97%
London Assembly representation
New members
*
Bob Blackman
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(
Conservative Party,
Brent and Harrow)
*
Dee Doocey (
Liberal Democrats,
London list)
*
Damian Hockney (
UK Independence Party
The UK Independence Party (UKIP, ) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two members of parliament (both through defect ...
,
London list)
*
Peter Hulme-Cross (
UK Independence Party
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,
London list)
*
Joanne McCartney (
Labour Party,
Enfield and Haringey)
*
Murad Qureshi (
Labour Party,
London list)
Defeated members
*
Toby Harris (
Labour Party,
Brent and Harrow)
*
Samantha Heath (
Labour Party,
London list)
*
Noel Lynch (
Green Party of England and Wales
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,
London list)
*
Eric Ollerenshaw (
Conservative Party,
London list)
Retiring members
*
Meg Hillier (
Labour Party,
North East)
*
Diana Johnson (
Labour Party,
London list)
Constituency Candidates
London-wide lists
References
External links
Guardian (newspaper): collection of manifestosMayorWatch London Elections Guide
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