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2008 London Assembly election

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2008 London Assembly election

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election_name2008 London Assembly election
countryLondon
typeparliamentary
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party_colouryes
previous_election2004 London Assembly election
previous_year2004
next_election2012 London Assembly election
next_year2012
seats_for_electionAll 25 seats in the London Assembly
13 seats needed for majority
election_date1 May 2008
1blankConstituency vote
2blank% and swing
3blankParty vote
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2data1**37.4%** 6.2%
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13 seats needed for majority

| [[File:London Assembly election, 2008.svg|350px]] | Vote plurality | [[File: Map of the 2008 London Assembly election.svg|350px]] | Margins of victory}} An election to the Assembly of London took place on 1 May 2008, along with the 2008 London mayoral election. The Conservatives gained 2 seats, Labour gained one seat, the Liberal Democrats lost two seats, and UKIP were wiped out. Notably, a candidate for the British National Party (BNP) was elected for the first time.

The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. Fourteen directly elected constituencies exist, all of which, until 2024 were ever 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. Prior to these elections, these seats were held by five Liberal Democrats, two Labour Party members, two Green Party members and two One Londoners.

The two One London members were elected as candidates for the UK Independence Party, but then joined or supported the breakaway Veritas party and subsequently left Veritas to form One London. Compared to the previous election, two separate factions of RESPECT Unity Coalition stood in 2008: Respect (George Galloway), who supported Ken Livingstone in the mayoral election, and Left List, who supported Lindsey German (RESPECT's mayoral candidate in 2004).

Results

|- !rowspan=3 colspan=2 | Parties !colspan=10 | Additional member system !rowspan=2 colspan=5 | Total seats |- !colspan=5 |Constituency !colspan=5 |Region |- ! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/− ! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/− ! Total !! +/− !! % |- |votes % = 37.4 |AMS votes % = 34.1 |Seats % = 44.0 |votes % = 28.0 |AMS votes % = 27.1 |Seats % = 32.0 |votes % = 13.7 |AMS votes % = 11.2 |Seats % = 12.0 |votes % = 8.1 |AMS votes % = 8.3 |Seats % = 8.0 |votes % = 0.7 |AMS votes % = 5.3

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† Joint-ticket Christian Party/Christian Peoples Alliance candidates standing as "Christian Choice"

Communist Party of Britain were listed on the ballot paper as "Unity for Peace and Socialism"

  • Total: 2,389,891
  • Overall turnout: 45.28%

Analysis

Labour gained Brent and Harrow from Conservative (which had been the only constituency seat changing hands in 2004, having then been gained from Labour). The other 13 constituencies remained unchanged, with the two Liberal Democrat challenges, in South West against the Conservatives, and Lambeth and Southwark against Labour, both showing swings against the Liberal Democrats. The Labour-Conservative marginal, with just 1.3% majority, of Enfield and Haringey was defended by Labour with only a tiny swing to the Conservatives. Thus the Labour campaign for the London Assembly was considerably more successful than their campaign in the local elections held on the same day.

Winning list members behind the returning officer

The Liberal Democrat and UKIP vote shares were both very poor compared with 2004, with UKIP wiped out entirely, and the Liberal Democrats losing two members.

The Labour vote share was up, but because of their capture of a FPTP seat, they did not gain any extra Additional Members against 2004. The biggest vote increase was for the Conservatives, achieving the highest ever showing of any party on the list, 34%; as a result and also due to their loss of one FPTP seat, they went from zero to three additional members. The Conservative record was subsequently surpassed by Labour in 2012 (41.1%) and 2016 (40.3%).

The British National Party won their first seat on the Assembly by reaching the 5% threshold.

London-wide list candidates

London Assembly Election 2008 — London-wide listsstyle="width:15%;"Namestyle="width:15%;"Candidates Elected to AssemblyNot Elected
Abolish the Congestion Charge
British National Party
The Christian Choice
Conservative Party
English Democrats
Green Party
Labour Party
Left List
Liberal Democrats
One London
Respect
(George Galloway)
UKIP
Unity for Peace & Socialism
Rathy Alagaratnam (Independent)

London Assembly representation

PartySeatsLoss/Gain
11+2
8+1
3–2
20
1+1
0[†] –2
**Total****25**

[†] Both UKIP Assembly members had subsequently defected and formed the new One London party.

New members

  • Gareth Bacon (Conservative Party, London list)
  • Richard Barnbrook (British National Party (subsequently expelled from party), London list)
  • Andrew Boff (Conservative Party, London list)
  • Victoria Borwick (Conservative Party, London list)
  • James Cleverly (Conservative Party, Bexley and Bromley)
  • Kit Malthouse (Conservative Party, West Central)
  • Steve O'Connell (Conservative Party, Croydon and Sutton)
  • Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrats, London list)
  • Navin Shah (Labour Party, Brent and Harrow)
  • Richard Tracey (Conservative Party, Merton and Wandsworth)

Defeated members

  • Bob Blackman (Conservative Party, Brent and Harrow)
  • Damian Hockney (One London, London list)
  • Peter Hulme-Cross (One London, London list)
  • Geoff Pope (Liberal Democrats, London list)

Retiring members

  • Angie Bray (Conservative Party, West Central)
  • Sally Hamwee (Liberal Democrats, London list)
  • Elizabeth Howlett (Conservative Party, Merton and Wandsworth)
  • Bob Neill (Conservative Party, Bexley and Bromley)
  • Andrew Pelling (Conservative Party, Croydon and Sutton)
  • Graham Tope (Liberal Democrats, London list)

References

References

  1. (2 May 2008). "London assembly results | Politics". guardian.co.uk.
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