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 | |
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London Labour is thedevolved,regional part of theLabour Party inGreater London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding a majority of theexecutive mayoralties, a majority oflocal councils, council seats andparliamentary seats, and a plurality ofassembly seats.
| Council | Councillors[5] |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 47 / 51 |
| Barnet | 41 / 63 |
| Bexley | 12 / 45 |
| Brent | 49 / 59 |
| Bromley | 12 / 59 |
| Camden | 46 / 55 |
| Croydon | 34 / 71 |
| Ealing | 59 / 70 |
| Enfield | 38 / 63 |
| Greenwich | 52 / 55 |
| Hackney | 50 / 57 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 40 / 50 |
| Haringey | 50 / 57 |
| Harrow | 24 / 55 |
| Havering | 8 / 55 |
| Hillingdon | 23 / 65 |
| Hounslow | 50 / 60 |
| Islington | 48 / 51 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 13 / 50 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 0 / 48 |
| Lambeth | 58 / 63 |
| Lewisham | 54 / 54 |
| Merton | 31 / 57 |
| Newham | 64 / 66 |
| Redbridge | 58 / 63 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 0 / 54 |
| Southwark | 52 / 63 |
| Sutton | 0 / 54 |
| Tower Hamlets | 19 / 45 |
| Waltham Forest | 47 / 60 |
| Wandsworth | 35 / 58 |
| Westminster | 31 / 54 |
Labour is the only political party to have any seats in theCity of London Corporation'sCourt of Common Council.
| Common Councilman | Ward |
|---|---|
| Helen Fentiman | Aldersgate |
| Stephen Goodman | Aldersgate |
| Natasha Lloyd-Owen | Cripplegate |
| Anne Corbett | Cripplegate |
| Frances Leach | Cripplegate |
| Jason Pritchard | Portsoken |
| Mayoralty | Mayor | |
|---|---|---|
| Greater London | Sadiq Khan | |
| Hackney | Philip Glanville | |
| Lewisham | Damien Egan | |
| Newham | Rokhsana Fiaz | |

The table below shows the London Labour Party's results at UK general elections since the area ofGreater London was created.[6]
| Date | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MPs elected | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | 1,587,065 | 40.4% | 50 / 92 | |||
| Oct 1974 | 1,540,462 | 43.9% | 51 / 92 | |||
| 1979 | 1,459,085 | 39.6% | 42 / 92 | |||
| 1983 | 1,031,539 | 29.8% | 26 / 84 | |||
| 1987 | 1,136,903 | 31.5% | 23 / 84 | |||
| 1992 | 1,332,424 | 37.1% | 35 / 84 | |||
| 1997 | 1,643,329 | 49.5% | 57 / 74 | |||
| 2001 | 1,306,869 | 47.3% | 55 / 74 | |||
| 2005 | 1,135,687 | 38.9% | 44 / 74 | |||
| 2010 | 1,245,637 | 36.6% | 38 / 73 | |||
| 2015 | 1,545,080 | 43.7% | 45 / 73 | |||
| 2017 | 2,087,010 | 54.6% | 49 / 73 | |||
| 2019 | 1,810,810 | 48.1% | 49 / 73 | |||
| 2024[7] | 1,432,622 | 43.0% | 59 / 75 | |||

During theUnited Kingdom'smembership of theEuropean Union (1973–2020),Greater London participated inEuropean Parliament elections, held every five years from1979 until2019.[8] The table below shows the London Labour results in elections to theEuropean Parliament. From 1979 to1994, Londonmembers of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected from ten individual constituencies byfirst-past-the-post voting; from1999 to 2019, MEPs were elected from aLondon-wide regional list byproportional 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 | 5 / 10 | |||
| 1989 | 778,589 | 41.6 | 7 / 10 | ||||
| 1994 | Margaret Beckett | 826,047 | 50.3 | 9 / 10 | |||
| 1999 | Tony Blair | 399,466 | 35.0 | 4 / 10 | |||
| 2004 | 466,584 | 24.8 | 3 / 9 | ||||
| 2009 | Gordon Brown | 372,590 | 21.3 | 2 / 8 | |||
| 2014 | Ed Miliband | 806,959 | 36.7 | 4 / 8 | |||
| 2019 | Jeremy Corbyn | 536,810 | 23.9 | 2 / 8 | |||
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Labour Party in elections to theGreater London Council. The GLC was abolished by theLocal 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% | 18 / 100 | Conservative win | |||
| 1970 | Reg Goodwin | 766,272 | 39.9% | 35 / 100 | Conservative win | |||
| 1973 | Reg Goodwin | 928,034 | 47.4% | 58 / 92 | Labour win | |||
| 1977 | Reg Goodwin | 737,194 | 32.9% | 28 / 92 | Conservative win | |||
| 1981 | Andrew McIntosh | 939,457 | 41.8% | 50 / 92 | 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 theLondon 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 | ||
| 2008 | Len Duvall | 673,855 | 28.0% | 6 / 14 | 665,443 | 27.1% | 2 / 11 | 8 / 25 | |
| 2012 | 933,438 | 42.3% | 8 / 14 | 911,204 | 41.1% | 4 / 11 | 12 / 25 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 theMayor of London.
| Date | Candidate | 1st Round vote | % of vote | 2nd Round vote | % of vote | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Frank Dobson | 223,884 | 13.1% | Eliminated | Eliminated | Independent win | Ex-GLC leader and Labour MPKen Livingstone ran as an independent and won. | |
| 2004 | Ken Livingstone | 685,548 | 36.8% | 828,390 | 55.4% | Labour win | ||
| 2008 | Ken Livingstone | 893,887 | 37.0% | 1,028,966 | 46.8% | Conservative win | ||
| 2012 | Ken Livingstone | 889,918 | 40.3% | 992,273 | 48.5% | Conservative win | ||
| 2016 | Sadiq Khan | 1,148,716 | 44.2% | 1,310,143 | 56.8% | Labour win | ||
| 2021 | Sadiq Khan | 1,013,721 | 40.0% | 1,206,034 | 55.2% | Labour win | ||
The table below shows the London Labour Party's results in elections for theLondon 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 | 3 / 32 | |||
| 1971 | 53.1% | 1,221 / 1,863 | 21 / 32 | ||||
| 1974 | 42.9% | 1,090 / 1,867 | 18 / 32 | ||||
| 1978 | 39.6% | 882 / 1,908 | 14 / 32 | ||||
| 1982 | 30.4% | 781 / 1,914 | 12 / 32 | ||||
| 1986 | 38.0% | 957 / 1,914 | 15 / 32 | ||||
| 1990 | 40.8% | 925 / 1,914 | 14 / 32 | ||||
| 1994 | 42.9% | 1,044 / 1,917 | 17 / 32 | ||||
| 1998 | 42.2% | 1,050 / 1,917 | 18 / 32 | ||||
| 2002 | 36.1% | 866 / 1,861 | 15 / 32 | ||||
| 2006 | 30.1% | 685 / 1,861 | 7 / 32 | ||||
| 2010 | 35.1% | 875 / 1,861 | 17 / 32 | ||||
| 2014 | 43.0% | 1,060 / 1,851 | 20 / 32 | ||||
| 2018 | 47.0% | 1,120 / 1,851 | 21 / 32 | ||||
| 2022 | 42.2%[9] | 1,173 / 1,817 | 21 / 32 | ||||
I am the chair of the London group of Labour MPs.