2016 London Assembly election

The 2016 London Assembly election was an election held on 5 May 2016[1] to elect the members of the London Assembly. It took place on the same day as the London mayoral election[2] and the United Kingdom local elections. Four parties had AMs in the previous Assembly: London Labour led by Len Duvall, London Conservatives led by Gareth Bacon, London Greens led by Siân Berry, and the London Liberal Democrats led by Caroline Pidgeon.

2016 London Assembly election

5 May 2016
All 25 seats in the London Assembly 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	45.6% 8.1%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Len Duvall Gareth Bacon Siân Berry Party Labour Conservative Green Leader's seat Greenwich and Lewisham Bexley and Bromley Londonwide Last election 12 seats 9 seats 2 seats Seats won 12 8 2 Seat change 1 Constituency Vote 1,138,576 812,415 236,809 % and swing 43.5% 1.2% 31.1% 1.6% 9.1% 0.5% Regional Vote 1,054,801 764,230 207,959 % and swing 40.3% 0.8% 29.2% 2.8% 8.0% 0.6%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Peter Whittle Caroline Pidgeon Party UKIP Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Londonwide Londonwide Last election 0 seats 2 seats Seats won 2 1 Seat change 2 1 Constituency Vote 199,448 195,820 % and swing 7.6% 3.3% 7.5% 1.3% Regional Vote 171,069 165,580 % and swing 6.5% 2.0% 6.3% 0.5%
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.

Labour received the largest number of votes ever cast for a party in a London Assembly election, becoming the first party to poll over 1 million votes. Although they gained Merton and Wandsworth from the Conservatives, their regional vote share declined by 0.8%, and they finished with 12 AMs, the same as in 2012. The Conservative Party won just 8 Assembly seats, its worst-ever performance in a London Assembly election. The Green Party retained its 2 Assembly members, although its 8.0% share of the regional vote represented its worst-ever result, and UKIP returned to the London Assembly for the first time since the election of 2004. The Liberal Democrats elected just 1 AM, their worst-ever result.

Of the minor parties, the newly formed Women's Equality Party was the most successful, attracting 91,772 votes (3.51%) on the regional list, which did not entitle them to any Assembly members as the threshold for representation is 5% of the regional vote. No other party polled above 2%.

Overview

The election system used is called the Additional Member System. There are 14 constituencies that elect one member each to the Assembly. These seats have been won only by the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. The remaining 11 seats are distributed by a second vote, by a modified D'Hondt method of closed-list voting, with a 5% minimum threshold. These seats have been won by other parties too, namely the Green Party, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, and in the past the British National Party. The overall result is an attempted compromise between constituency representation and London-wide proportional representation.

Those who were eligible[3] had to be registered to vote before 19 April 2016 in order to take part in this election.[4]

Candidates

Constituency candidates

Constituency	Conservative[5]	Labour[6]	Green	UKIP	Lib Dems[7]	Others
Barnet & Camden	Dan Thomas	Andrew Dismore (I)[8]	Stephen Taylor	Joseph Langton[9]	Zack Polanski[10]
Bexley & Bromley	Gareth Bacon (I)	Sam Russell	Roisin Robertson	Frank Gould	Julie Ireland	Veronica Obadara (APP)
Brent & Harrow	Joel Davidson	Navin Shah (I)	Jafar Hassan	Rathy Alagaratnam	Anton Georgiou	Akib Mahmood (Respect)
City & East	Chris Chapman	Unmesh Desai	Rachel Collinson	Peter Harris	Elaine Bagshaw	Mikail Rayne (Respect) Aaron D'Souza (APP) Amina Gichinga (Take Back the City)
Croydon & Sutton	Steve O'Connell (I)	Marina Ahmad	Tracey Hague	Peter Staveley	Amna Ahmad	Richard Edmonds (NF) Madonna Lewis (APP)
Ealing & Hillingdon	Dominic Gilham	Onkar Sahota (I)	Meena Hans[11]	Alex Nieora	Francesco Fruzza
Enfield & Haringey	Linda Kelly	Joanne McCartney (I)	Ronald Stewart	Neville Watson[12]	Nicholas da Costa	Godson Azu (APP)
Greenwich & Lewisham	Adam Thomas	Len Duvall (I)	Imogen Solly	Paul Oakley	Julia Fletcher[13]	Josephine Bangura (APP)
Havering & Redbridge	Keith Prince	Ivana Bartoletti[14]	Lee Burkwood	Lawrence Webb	Ian Sanderson[7]
Lambeth & Southwark	Robert Flint[15]	Florence Eshalomi	Rashid Nix	Idham Ramadi	Michael Bukola	Kevin Parkin (SPGB)[16] Amadu Kanumansa (APP)
Merton & Wandsworth	David Dean	Leonie Cooper	Esther Obiri-Darko	Elizabeth Jones	Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett[17]	Thamilini Kulendran (Independent)
North East	Sam Malik	Jennette Arnold (I)	Samir Jeraj	Freddy Vachha	Terry Stacy	Bill Martin (SPGB),[16] Tim Allen (Respect) Jonathan Silberman (Communist League)
South West	Tony Arbour (I)	Martin Whelton	Andree Frieze	Alan Craig	Rosina Robson[18]	Adam Buick (SPGB)[16]
West Central	Tony Devenish	Mandy Richards	Jennifer Nadel	Clive Egan	Annabel Mullin
Source: London Elects

List candidates

London Assembly election, 2016[19][20][21]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Twycross (105,480), Tom Copley (95,891), Nicky Gavron (87,900), Murad Qureshi (81,139), Alison Moore, Preston Tabois, Feryal Demirci, Mike Katz, Emily Brothers, Bevan Powell, Sara Hyde	1,054,801	40.3%	–0.8%
	Conservative	Kemi Badenoch (127,372), Andrew Boff (109,176), Shaun Bailey (95,529), Susan Hall (84,914), Amandeep Bhogal, Joanne Laban, Antonia Cox, Joy Morrissey, Timothy Barnes, Gregory Stafford, Kishan Devani, Jonathan Cope	764,230	29.2%	–2.8%
	Green	Siân Berry (207,959), Caroline Russell (103,980), Shahrar Ali (69,320), Jonathan Bartley, Noel Lynch, Rashid Nix, Dee Searle, Benali Hamdache, Andrea Carey Fuller, Anne RoseMary Warrington, Peter Underwood	207,959	8.0%	–0.6%
	UKIP	Peter Whittle (171,069), David Kurten (85,535), Lawrence Webb (57,023), Peter Harris, Neville Watson, Piers Wauchope, Afzal Akram, Elizabeth Jones, Tariq Saeed, Freddy Vachha, Peter Staveley	171,069	6.5%	+2.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Pidgeon (165,580), Emily Davey (82,790), Merlene Emerson, Robert Blackie, Zack Polanski, Dawn Barnes, Annabel Mullin, Marisha Ray, Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Pauline Pearce, Benjamin Mathis	165,580	6.3%	–0.5%
	Women's Equality	Sophie Walker, Harini Iyengar, Jacquelyn Guderley, Alison Marshall, Rebecca Manson Jones, Anila Dhami, Isabelle Parasram, Chris Paouros, Joanna Shaw, Kate Massey-Chase, Melanie Howard	91,772[22]	3.5%	N/A
	Respect	George Galloway, Akib Mahmood, Mikail Rayne, Clare McCaughey, Rehiana Ali, Terry Hoy, Simon Virgo, Saurav Dutt, Tehmeena Mahmood, Karina Lockhart	41,324	1.6%	N/A
	Britain First	Jayda Fransen, Paul Golding, Christine Smith, Anne Elstone, Nancy Smith, Hollie Rouse, Peggy Saunders, Donna King, Kevan M^cMullen, Steven Connor	39,071	1.5%	N/A
	Christian Peoples Alliance	Malcolm Martin, Maureen Martin, Yemi Awolola, Helen Spiby-Vann, Ray Towey, Damilola Adewuyi, Kathy Mils, Kayode Shedono, Des Coke, Ashley Dickenson, Stephen Hammond, Kevin Nichols	27,172	1.0%	–0.8%
	Animal Welfare	Vanessa Hudson, Jonathan Homan, Alexander Bourke, Linda Seddon, Zsanett Csontos	25,810	1.0%	N/A
	BNP	David Furness, Paul Sturdy, John Clarke, Michael Jones, Peter Finch, Nicola Finch, Denise Underwood, Stephen Dillon, Philip Dalton, Gareth Jones, Beb Smith	15,833	0.6%	–1.5%
	The House Party	Terry McGrenera	11,055	0.4%	+0.1%

Rejected Ballots 29,733 (1.1%)[23]

Total Votes 2,645,409

Note that party descriptions can be used as alternatives to the registered party name.[24] Descriptions used in this election were:[25]

• Britain First – Putting British people first
• Caroline Pidgeon's London Liberal Democrats
• Green Party – "vote Green on orange"
• Respect (George Galloway)
• UK Independence Party (UKIP)
• The House Party – Homes for Londoners

Opinion polls

Constituency

Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Lab	Con	Lib Dem	Green	UKIP	Others	Lead
5 May 2016	Election results	2,614,912	43.5%	31.1%	7.5%	9.1%	7.6%	1.2%	12.4%
2–4 May 2016	YouGov	1,574	44%	30%	7%	7%	11%	1%	14%
15–19 April 2016	YouGov	1,017	46%	30%	9%	6%	9%	1%	16%
3 May 2012	Election results	2,207,677	42.3%	32.7%	8.8%	8.5%	4.3%	3.3%	9.6%

Regional list

Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Lab	Con	Green	Lib Dem	UKIP	WEP	Others	Lead
5 May 2016	Election results	2,615,676	40.3%	29.2%	8.0%	6.3%	6.5%	3.5%	3.9%	11.1%
2–4 May 2016	YouGov	1,574	39%	29%	9%	8%	11%	2%	3%	10%
15–19 April 2016	YouGov	1,017	45%	29%	7%	8%	9%	1%	0%	16%
3 May 2012	Election results	2,215,008	41.1%	32.0%	8.5%	6.8%	4.5%	—	7.1%	9.1%

Results

London Assembly election, 2016
Parties		Additional member system										Total seats
		Constituency					Region
		Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−	Total	+/−	%
	Labour	1,138,576	43.5	1.2	9	1	1,054,801	40.3	0.8	3	1	12		48.0
	Conservative	812,415	31.1	1.6	5	1	764,230	29.2	2.8	3		8	1	32.0
	Green	236,809	9.1	0.5			207,959	8.0	0.6	2		2		8.0
	UKIP	199,448	7.6	3.3			171,069	6.5	2.0	2	2	2	2	8.0
	Liberal Democrats	195,820	7.5	1.3			165,580	6.3	0.5	1	1	1	1	4.0
	Women's Equality	-	-	-	-	-	91,772	3.5	N/A			0		-
	Respect	16,960	0.6	N/A			41,324	1.6	N/A			0		-
	Britain First	-	-	-	-	-	39,071	1.5	N/A			0		-
	Christian Peoples Alliance	-	-	-	-	-	27,172	1.0	0.8			0		-
	Animal Welfare	-	-	-	-	-	25,810	1.0	N/A			0		-
	BNP	-	-	-	-	-	15,833	0.6	1.5			0		-
	The House Party	-	-	-	-	-	11,055	0.4				0		-
	All People's Party	6,991	0.3	N/A	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
	Socialist (GB)	3,691	0.1	0.1	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
	Take Back the City	1,368	0.1	N/A	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
	Thamilini Kulendran	1,142	0.0	0.3	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
	Communist League	536	0.0	0.1	0		-	-	-	-	-	0		-
	Total	2,614,862			14		2,615,676			11		25

Constituency Vote Labour   43.5% Conservative   31.1% Green   9.1% UKIP   7.6% Liberal Democrats   7.5% Others   1.2%

Regional Vote Labour   40.3% Conservative   29.2% Green   8.0% UKIP   6.5% Liberal Democrats   6.3% Others   5.3%

Assembly seats Labour   48.0% Conservative   32.0% Green   8.0% UKIP   8.0% Liberal Democrats   4.0%

Footnotes

See also

• 2016 London mayoral election
• London Assembly
• List of London Assembly constituencies

References

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External links

• London Elects homepage