London Labour

London Labour
Mayor of London	Sadiq Khan
Chair	Maggi Ferncombe[1]
London Assembly Group Leader	Len Duvall
House of Commons Group Chair	Dawn Butler[2]
Headquarters	Southside, 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Labour Party
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance Socialist International (observer)
Colours	Red
House of Commons (London seats)	59 / 75
London Assembly	11 / 25
Court of Common Council	6 / 100
Councillors[3]	1,087 / 1,817
Council control	21 / 32
Directly elected mayors	3 / 5
Website
www.labourinlondon.org.uk
Politics of London Political parties

London Labour is the devolved, regional part of the Labour Party in Greater London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding a majority of the executive mayoralties, a majority of local councils, council seats and parliamentary seats, and a plurality of assembly seats.

• Keir Starmer – Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party
• David Lammy – Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
• Wes Streeting – Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Labour is the only political party to have any seats in the City of London Corporation's Court of Common Council.

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results at UK general elections since the area of Greater London was created.^[6]

Date		Votes won	% of Votes	Change	MPs elected	Change
	Feb 1974	1,587,065	40.4%	5.3%	50 / 92	5
	Oct 1974	1,540,462	43.9%	3.5%	51 / 92	1
	1979	1,459,085	39.6%	4.3%	42 / 92	9
	1983	1,031,539	29.8%	9.8%	26 / 84	16
	1987	1,136,903	31.5%	1.7%	23 / 84	3
	1992	1,332,424	37.1%	5.6%	35 / 84	12
	1997	1,643,329	49.5%	12.4%	57 / 74	22
	2001	1,306,869	47.3%	2.2%	55 / 74	2
	2005	1,135,687	38.9%	8.4%	44 / 74	11
	2010	1,245,637	36.6%	2.3%	38 / 73	6
	2015	1,545,080	43.7%	7.1%	45 / 73	7
	2017	2,087,010	54.6%	10.9%	49 / 73	4
	2019	1,810,810	48.1%	6.5%	49 / 73
	2024[7]	1,432,622	43.0%	5.1%	59 / 75	10

During the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union (1973–2020), Greater London participated in European Parliament elections, held every five years from 1979 until 2019.^[8] The table below shows the London Labour results in elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 1994, London members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected from ten individual constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; from 1999 to 2019, MEPs were elected from a London-wide regional list by proportional representation.

Election	Leader	Votes			Seats		Pos.
		No.	%	±	No.	±
1979	Jim Callaghan	566,525	36.7	N/A	1 / 10	N/A	2nd
1984	Neil Kinnock	683,789	41.0	4.3	5 / 10	4	1st
1989		778,589	41.6	0.6	7 / 10	2	1st
1994	Margaret Beckett	826,047	50.3	8.7	9 / 10	2	1st
1999	Tony Blair	399,466	35.0	15.3	4 / 10	5	1st
2004		466,584	24.8	10.3	3 / 9	1	2nd
2009	Gordon Brown	372,590	21.3	3.5	2 / 8	1	2nd
2014	Ed Miliband	806,959	36.7	15.4	4 / 8	2	1st
2019	Jeremy Corbyn	536,810	23.9	12.7	2 / 8	2	2nd

The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the Greater London Council. The GLC was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.

Date		Leader	Votes won	% of Votes	Change	Councillors	Change	Result
	1964	Bill Fiske	1,063,390	44.6%	N/A	64 / 100	N/A	Labour win
	1967	Bill Fiske	732,669	34.0%	10.6%	18 / 100	46	Conservative win
	1970	Reg Goodwin	766,272	39.9%	5.9%	35 / 100	17	Conservative win
	1973	Reg Goodwin	928,034	47.4%	7.5%	58 / 92	23	Labour win
	1977	Reg Goodwin	737,194	32.9%	14.5%	28 / 92	30	Conservative win
	1981	Andrew McIntosh	939,457	41.8%	8.9%	50 / 92	22	Labour win

Between 1986 and 2000 there was no city-wide governmental body in Greater London.

The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to the London Assembly.

Election	Leader	Constituency			Party			Total Seats	+/–
		#	%	Seats	#	%	Seats
2000	Toby Harris	501,296	31.6%	6 / 14	502,874	30.3%	3 / 11	9 / 25	N/A
2004		444,808	24.7%	5 / 14	468,247	25.0%	2 / 11	7 / 25	2
2008	Len Duvall	673,855	28.0%	6 / 14	665,443	27.1%	2 / 11	8 / 25	1
2012		933,438	42.3%	8 / 14	911,204	41.1%	4 / 11	12 / 25	4
2016		1,138,576	43.5%	9 / 14	1,054,801	40.3%	3 / 11	12 / 25
2021		1,083,215	41.7%	9 / 14	986,609	38.1%	2 / 11	11 / 25	1
2024		983,216	39.7%	10 / 14	951,056	38.4%	1 / 11	11 / 25

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the Mayor of London.

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for the London Boroughs.

Date		Vote share	Change	Councillors	Change	Councils	Change
	1964	—	N/A	1,112 / 1,859	N/A	20 / 32	N/A
	1968	28.1%	N/A	350 / 1,863	762	3 / 32	17
	1971	53.1%	25.0%	1,221 / 1,863	871	21 / 32	18
	1974	42.9%	10.2%	1,090 / 1,867	131	18 / 32	3
	1978	39.6%	3.3%	882 / 1,908	208	14 / 32	4
	1982	30.4%	9.3%	781 / 1,914	101	12 / 32	2
	1986	38.0%	7.7%	957 / 1,914	176	15 / 32	3
	1990	40.8%	2.8%	925 / 1,914	32	14 / 32	1
	1994	42.9%	2.1%	1,044 / 1,917	119	17 / 32	3
	1998	42.2%	0.6%	1,050 / 1,917	6	18 / 32	1
	2002	36.1%	6.2%	866 / 1,861	184	15 / 32	3
	2006	30.1%	6.0%	685 / 1,861	181	7 / 32	8
	2010	35.1%	5.0%	875 / 1,861	190	17 / 32	10
	2014	43.0%	8.0%	1,060 / 1,851	185	20 / 32	3
	2018	47.0%	4.0%	1,120 / 1,851	60	21 / 32	1
	2022	42.2%[9]	4.8%	1,173 / 1,817	45	21 / 32	0

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