An election to the

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took place on 10 June 2004, along with the

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. 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

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and the

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from winning a seat each as both fell just short of the 5% threshold. This election saw losses for

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and the Greens and gains for both the Liberal Democrats and

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, who achieved their first representation in the

since its creation in 2000.

Results

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gained Brent and Harrow from

(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.

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

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(

, Brent and Harrow) * Dee Doocey ( Liberal Democrats, London list) * Damian Hockney (

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, London list) * Peter Hulme-Cross (

, London list) * Joanne McCartney ( Labour Party, Enfield and Haringey) *

Murad Qureshi Murad Qureshi ( bn, মুরাদ কোরেশী; born 27 May 1965) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and a former Member of the London Assembly. Early life and education Qureshi was born in Greater Manchester, but ...

( Labour Party, London list)

Defeated members

* Toby Harris ( Labour Party, Brent and Harrow) *

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( Labour Party, London list) * Noel Lynch (

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, London list) *

Eric Ollerenshaw Eric Ollerenshaw OBE (born 26 March 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood from 2010 to 2015. He was born and grew up in Lancashire and was educated at Hyde County Gr ...

(

, London list)

Retiring members

Meg Hillier Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier (born 14 February 1969), known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch at the 2005 general election, was a ...

( Labour Party, North East) *

Diana Johnson Dame Diana Ruth Johnson (born 25 July 1966) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she was elected as Chair of the ...

( Labour Party, London list)

London-wide lists

References

External links

Guardian (newspaper): collection of manifestosMayorWatch London Elections Guide
{{London elections 2004 elections in the United Kingdom Assembly election 2004 June 2004 events in the United Kingdom