2024 London Assembly election
← 2021 2 May 2024
All 25 seats in the London Assembly
13 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Len Duvall Neil Garratt
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seat Greenwich and Lewisham Londonwide
Last election 11 seats 9 seats
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Caroline Russell Caroline Pidgeon
Party Green Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Londonwide Londonwide
Last election 3 seats 2 seats

The 2024 election to the London Assembly will take place on 2 May 2024, concurrently with the 2024 local elections and the London mayoral election.

Background

In the 2021 London Assembly elections, Labour won eleven seats, the Conservatives nine, the Green Party three and the Liberal Democrats two.

In addition to this, the London 2022 local elections showed growth for the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, with moderate growth for the Green Party and losses for the Conservatives.

Electoral system

Members of the London Assembly are elected through a combination of both first past the post as well as closed list proportional representation. This system is commonly referred to as the additional member system. Fourteen members are elected in single member constituencies with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes becoming the Assembly Member for that constituency. An additional 11 members are also elected from the whole of London — with parties creating lists of up to 25 candidates — for a party to be included it needs to attain at least 5% of the vote across London. This process divides the remaining seats proportionally to the vote share of the parties with the use of the modified D'Hondt method allocating the seats. This system ensures proportionality with the 11 additional members being allocated in a corrective manner.[1][2]

Constituency candidates need to submit a deposit of £1,000 which is returned if they get at least 5% of the vote. A London-wide list requires a deposit of £5,000 which is returned if the list gets 2.5% of the vote.[3]

London Wide List Candidates

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats announced their London-wide list candidates in May 2023.[4]

Green Party

The Green Party announced their London-wide list candidates in February 2023.[6]

Rejoin EU

The Rejoin EU Party announced their London-wide list candidates in March 2024. As in 2021, it is a joint list with Volt UK.[8]

Constituency Candidates

Reform UK

Reform UK announced their constituency candidates on their website.[9]

Assembly members not standing for re-election

References

  1. ^ "London Mayor and Assembly". Your Vote Matters. 2018-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  2. ^ "The Voting Systems". London Elects. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Nominations". London Elects.
  4. ^ Pack, Mark (2023-05-13). "Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates announced". Mark Pack. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  5. ^ Pack, Mark (2023-08-11). "Double Lib Dem selection news: Parliamentary by-election and London Mayor". Mark Pack. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  6. ^ "Green Party announces candidate for London Mayor". Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate. 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  7. ^ "Green Party reveals its 2024 London mayoral candidate". uk.movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  8. ^ "Rejoin EU Party stand full slate for London Assembly Election, but withdraw from the race for Mayor". The Rejoin EU Party. 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  9. ^ "GLA London Region". Reform UK. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  10. ^ "London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon to stand down at next election". South London News. 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  11. ^ Vickers, Noah (2023-11-21). "Sadiq Khan's ally told he cannot fight next year's City Hall election". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  12. ^ Vickers, Noah (2023-06-08). "Tory politician and former mayoral hopeful to leave City Hall at next election". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  13. ^ Vickers, Noah (15 March 2024). "Evening Standard".((cite news)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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