London Assembly election, 2012

London Assembly election, 2012

3 May 2012

25 London Assembly Seats 13 seats needed for majority   First party Second party   Leader Ed Miliband David Cameron Party Labour Conservative Last election 8 11 Seats won 12 9 Seat change 4 2 Party list vote 911,204 708,528 Percentage 41.1% 32.0% Swing 13.1% 5.4% Constituency Seats 8 6 Additional Member Seats 4 3   Third party Fourth party   Leader Caroline Lucas Nick Clegg Party Green Liberal Democrat Last election 2 3 Seats won 2 2 Seat change 1 Party list vote 189,215 150,447 Percentage 8.5% 6.8% Swing 0.4% 4.4% Constituency Seats 0 0 Additional Member Seats 2 2

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.

Results by constituency in 2012

Candidates

Constituency candidates

¹UKIP constituency candidates stood under the label "Fresh Choice for London" rather than as "UKIP".^[4]

London-wide List Candidates

Results

Top-up results

• Total: 2,215,008
• Overall turnout: 40.9%
• Change: –4.38%
• Threshold 5%

London Assembly Representation

† 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.

Composition of London Assembly, 2000 - 2012

See also

• Greater London Authority
• Mayor of London

References

External links

• London Elects homepage

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