2012 London Assembly election
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The London Assembly election of 2012 was an election of members to the London Assembly which took place on Thursday, 3 May 2012, the same day as the London mayoral election, 2012, and the United Kingdom local elections, 2012.
The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies, all of which have, to date, only ever been won by the Conservative Party or the Labour Party. An additional eleven members are allocated by a London wide top-up vote with the proviso that parties must win at least five percent of the vote to qualify for the list seats.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in London who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 3 May 2012 were entitled to vote in the Assembly election. Those who were temporarily away from London (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the Assembly election.[1] The deadline to register to vote in the election was midnight on Wednesday 18 April 2012,[2] though anyone who qualified as an anonymous elector had until midnight on Thursday 26 April 2012 to register.[3]
The election produced the Labour Party's best result since the inception of the London Assembly.[citation needed]
Candidates
Constituency candidates
Constituency | Conservative Party | Labour Party |
Green Party |
Liberal Democrats | Fresh Choice For London1 |
BNP | Others |
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Barnet & Camden | Brian Coleman (inc.) | Andrew Dismore | A.M. Poppy | Chris Richards | Michael Corby | ||
Bexley & Bromley | James Cleverly (inc.) | Josie Channer | Jonathan Rooks | Sam Webber | David Coburn | Donna Treanor | |
Brent & Harrow | Sachin Rajput | Navin Shah (inc.) | Shahrar Ali | Charlotte Henry | Mick McGough | ||
City & East | John Moss | John Biggs (inc.) | Chris Smith | Richard Macmillan | Steven Woolfe | Paul Borg | Paul Davies (Communist League), Kamran Malik (Communities United Party) |
Croydon & Sutton | Steve O'Connell (inc.) | Louisa Woodley | Gordon Ross | Abigail Lock | Winston McKenzie | ||
Ealing & Hillingdon | Richard Barnes (inc.) | Onkar Sahota | Mike Harling | Mike Cox | Helen Knight | David Furness | Ian Edward (National Front) |
Enfield & Haringey | Andy Hemsted | Joanne McCartney (inc.) | Peter Krakowiak | Dawn Barnes | Peter Staveley | Marie Nicholas | |
Greenwich & Lewisham | Alex Wilson | Len Duvall (inc.) | Roger Sedgley | John Russell | Paul Oakley | Roberta Woods | Tess Culnane (National Front), Barbara Raymond (Greenwich and Lewisham People Before Profit) |
Havering & Redbridge | Roger Evans (inc.) | Mandy Richards | Haroon Said | Farrukh Islam | Lawrence Webb | Robert Taylor | Malvin Brown (Residents' Association of London), Richard Edmonds (National Front), Mark Twiddy (English Democrats) |
Lambeth & Southwark | Michael Mitchell | Val Shawcross (inc.) | Jonathan Bartley | Rob Blackie | Gawain Towler | Danny Lambert (Socialist Party of Great Britain) | |
Merton & Wandsworth | Richard Tracey (inc.) | Leonie Cooper | Roy Vickery | Lisa Smart | Mazhar Manzoor | Thamilini Kulendran (Independent), Bill Martin (Socialist Party of Great Britain), | |
North East | Naomi Newstead | Jennette Arnold (inc.) | Caroline Allen | Farooq Qureshi | Paul Wiffen | Ijaz Hayat (Independent) | |
South West | Tony Arbour (inc.) | Lisa Homan | Daniel Goldsmith | Munira Wilson | Jeff Bolter | ||
West Central | Kit Malthouse (inc.) | Todd Foreman | Susanna Rustin | Layla Moran | Elizabeth Jones |
1UKIP constituency candidates stood under the label "Fresh Choice for London" rather than as "UKIP".[4]
London-wide List Candidates
London Assembly Election 2012 — London-wide List | ||||||||
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Name | Candidates Elected to Assembly (and d'Hondt votes) | Candidates (in list order) |
Results
Top-up results
Party | Votes[8] | Share[8] | Change[8][9] | Seats | Loss/Gain | |
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Labour | 911,204 | 41.1% | +13.5% | 4 | +2 | |
Conservative | 708,528 | 32.0% | –2.6% | 3 | — | |
Green | 189,215 | 8.5% | +0.4% | 2 | — | |
Liberal Democrats | 150,447 | 6.8% | –4.6% | 2 | –1 | |
UKIP | 100,040 | 4.5% | +2.6% | 0 | — | |
BNP | 47,024 | 2.1% | –3.3% | 0 | –1 | |
CPA | 38,758 | 1.8% | –1.1% | 0 | — | |
English Democrat | 22,025 | 1.0% | –0.1% | 0 | — | |
TUSC | 17,686 | 0.8% | N/A | 0 | N/A | |
9,114 | 0.4% | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
8,126 | 0.4% | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
National Front | 8,006 | 0.4% | N/A | 0 | N/A | |
4,835 | 0.2% | — | 0 | — |
- Total: 2,215,008
- Overall turnout: 40.9%
- Change: –4.38%
- Threshold 5%
London Assembly Representation
Party | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | |
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Labour | 9 | 7 | 8 | 12 | |
Conservative | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | |
Green | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
UKIP | 0 | 2† | 0 | 0 | |
BNP | 0 | 0 | 1‡ | 0 | |
Total | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
† Both UKIP Assembly members subsequently defected to Veritas and eventually defected again to form the new One London party.
‡ Richard Barnbrook was elected as the BNP candidate, but was subsequently expelled. He then sat as an independent.
See also
References
- ^ "Who can register to vote?". Harrow Council. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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- ^ The deadline for the receipt and determination of anonymous electoral registration applications was the same as the publication date of the notice of alteration to the Electoral Register (i.e. the fifth working day before election day).[citation needed]
- ^ "Who to vote for". London Elects. Archived from the original on April 14, 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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- ^ Watt, Chris (1 February 2012). "Christine Quigley announced as latest london assembly Labour candidate". LabourList. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "2012 GLA list". Liberal Democrats. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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