The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.
London Conservatives | |
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Leader in the London Assembly | Neil Garratt |
Deputy Leader in the London Assembly | Emma Best |
Chairman | Clare Hambro |
Deputy chairpersons | Peter Smallwood & Martin Hislop |
Founded | 1946 |
Preceded by | Municipal Reform Party |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing[1][2] |
National affiliation | Conservatives |
Colours | Blue |
House of Commons (London seats) | 9 / 75 |
London Assembly | 9 / 25 |
Local councillors in London[3] | 403 / 1,817 |
Council control in London[3] | 6 / 32 |
Directly elected Mayoralties in London | 1 / 5 |
Website | |
City Hall Conservatives Conservative Party in London | |
Party strength
editThe party's main competition is with the larger London Labour Party for office.
The Conservatives (as of the 2024 United Kingdom general election) hold 9 of 75 London seats in the House of Commons. As of the 2021 election, they hold 9 of 25 seats in the London Assembly. As of the 2022 elections, the party controls 5 of 32 London borough councils, has 1 of 5 directly elected borough mayors and 404 out of the 1,817 borough councillors.
The party held the Mayoralty of London from 2008 until losing to Labour in 2016.
Mayoral candidates
editElection | Candidate | Results |
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2000 | Steven Norris | |
2004 | Steven Norris | |
2008 | Boris Johnson | |
2012 | Boris Johnson | |
2016 | Zac Goldsmith | |
2021 | Shaun Bailey | |
2024 | Susan Hall |
Current representatives
editMembers of Parliament
edit- Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
- Louie French (Old Bexley and Sidcup)
- Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green)
- David Simmonds (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner)
- Gareth Bacon (Orpington)
- Julia Lopez (Hornchurch and Upminster)
- Peter Fortune (Bromley and Biggin Hill)
- Chris Philp (South Croydon)
- Andrew Rosindell (Romford)
London Assembly members
edit- Nicholas Rogers (South West)
- Thomas Turrel (Bexley and Bromley)
- Shaun Bailey (Londonwide)
- Andrew Boff (Londonwide)
- Neil Garratt (Croydon and Sutton)
- Susan Hall (Londonwide)
- Keith Prince (Havering and Redbridge)
- Emma Best (Londonwide)
Councillors
editCouncil | Councillors |
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Barking and Dagenham | 0 / 51
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Barnet | 22 / 63
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Bexley | 33 / 45
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Brent | 5 / 57
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Bromley | 36 / 58
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Camden | 3 / 55
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Croydon | 33 / 70
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Ealing | 5 / 70
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Enfield | 25 / 63
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Greenwich | 3 / 55
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Hackney | 5 / 57
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Hammersmith and Fulham | 10 / 50
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Haringey | 0 / 57
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Harrow | 31 / 55
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Havering | 23 / 55
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Hillingdon | 30 / 53
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Hounslow | 10 / 62
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Islington | 0 / 51
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Kensington and Chelsea | 35 / 50
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Kingston upon Thames | 3 / 48
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Lambeth | 0 / 63
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Lewisham | 0 / 54
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Merton | 7 / 57
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Newham | 0 / 66
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Redbridge | 5 / 63
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Richmond upon Thames | 1 / 54
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Southwark | 0 / 63
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Sutton | 20 / 55
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Tower Hamlets | 1 / 45
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Waltham Forest | 13 / 60
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Wandsworth | 22 / 58
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Westminster | 23 / 54
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Directly elected mayors
editMayoralty | Mayor | |
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Croydon | Jason Perry |
Electoral performance
editGeneral elections
editDate | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MPs elected | Change |
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2019 | 1,205,129 | 32.0% | 21 / 73
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2024 | 676,368 | 20.4% | 9 / 75
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European elections
editDate | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | MEPs elected | Change | |
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1979 | N/A | 0 / 10
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1984 | 0 / 10
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1989 | 0 / 10
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1994 | 1 / 10
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1999 | 372,989 | 32.7% | 4 / 10
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2004 | 504,941 | 26.8% | 3 / 9
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2009 | 479,037 | 27.4% | 3 / 8
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2014 | 495,639 | 22.5% | 2 / 8
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2019 | 177,964 | 7.9% | 0 / 8
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Regional elections
editGreater London Council elections
editThe table below shows the results obtained by the London Conservatives 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 |
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1964 | 956,543 | 40.1% | N/A | 36 / 100
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N/A | Labour win | |
1967 | Desmond Plummer | 1,136,092 | 52.6% | 82 / 100
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Conservative win | ||
1970 | Desmond Plummer | 971,227 | 50.6% | 65 / 100
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Conservative win | ||
1973 | Desmond Plummer | 743,123 | 38.0% | 32 / 92
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Labour win | ||
1977 | Horace Cutler | 1,177,390 | 52.5% | 64 / 92
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Conservative win | ||
1981 | Horace Cutler | 894,234 | 39.7% | 41 / 92
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Labour win |
Mayoral elections
editThe table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Mayoral elections since 2000.
Election | Candidate | 1st Round vote | 2nd Round Vote | Result | ||||
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2000 | Steven Norris | 464,434 | 27.1% | 564,137 | 42.1 | Lost | ||
2004 | Steven Norris | 542,423 | 29.1% | 667,180 | 44.6 | Lost | ||
2008 | Boris Johnson | 1,043,761 | 43.2% | 1,168,738 | 53.3 | Win | ||
2012 | Boris Johnson | 971,931 | 44.0% | 1,054,811 | 51.5 | Win | ||
2016 | Zac Goldsmith | 909,755 | 35.0% | 994,614 | 43.2 | Lost | ||
2021 | Shaun Bailey | 893,051 | 35.3% | 977,601 | 44.8 | Lost |
Since the Elections Act 2022, London mayoral elections have operated under the first-past-the-post voting system. Therefore, there is no longer a second round.
Election | Candidate | Vote | Result | ||
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2024 | Susan Hall | 812,397 | 32.7% | Lost |
Assembly elections
editThe table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Assembly elections since 2000.
Election | Leader | Votes (constituency) | Votes (region) | Seats | ||
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# | % | # | % | |||
2000 | Eric Ollerenshaw | 526,422 | 33.2 | 481,053 | 29.0 | 9 / 25
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2004 | Bob Neill | 562,047 | 31.2 | 533,696 | 28.5 | 9 / 25
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2008 | Richard Barnes | 900,569 | 37.4 | 835,535 | 34.1 | 11 / 25
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2012 | James Cleverly | 722,280 | 32.7 | 708,528 | 32.0 | 9 / 25
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2016 | Gareth Bacon | 812,415 | 31.1 | 764,230 | 29.2 | 8 / 25
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2021 | Susan Hall | 833,021 | 32.0 | 795,081 | 30.7 | 9 / 25
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Borough council elections
editThe table below shows the London Conservatives results in elections for the London Boroughs.
Year | % of Vote |
Number of Councillors |
Number of Councils |
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1964 | 668 / 1,859
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9 / 32
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1968 | 1,438 / 1,863
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28 / 32
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1971 | 597 / 1,863
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10 / 32
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1974 | 40.8 | 713 / 1,867
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13 / 32
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1978 | 48.7 | 960 / 1,908
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17 / 32
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1982 | 42.2 | 984 / 1,914
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17 / 32
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1986 | 35.4 | 685 / 1,914
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11 / 32
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1990 | 37.8 | 731 / 1,914
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12 / 32
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1994 | 31.2 | 519 / 1,917
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4 / 32
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1998 | 32.0 | 538 / 1,917
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4 / 32
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2002 | 34.1 | 654 / 1,861
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8 / 32
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2006 | 34.9 | 785 / 1,861
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14 / 32
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2010 | 31.7 | 717 / 1,861
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11 / 32
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2014 | 26.4 | 612 / 1,861
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9 / 32
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2018 | 28.8 | 508 / 1,861
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7 / 32
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Saini, Rima; Bankole, Michael; Begum, Neema (April 2023). "The 2022 Conservative Leadership Campaign and Post-racial Gatekeeping". Race & Class: 1–20. doi:10.1177/03063968231164599.
...the Conservative Party's history in incorporating ethnic minorities, and the recent post-racial turn within the party whereby increasing party diversity has coincided with an increasing turn to the Right
- ^ Bale, Tim (March 2023). The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation. Cambridge: Polity. pp. 3–8, 291, et passim. ISBN 9781509546015. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
[...] rather than the installation of a supposedly more 'technocratic' cabinet halting and even reversing any transformation on the part of the Conservative Party from a mainstream centre-right formation into an ersatz radical right-wing populist outfit, it could just as easily accelerate and accentuate it. Of course, radical right-wing populist parties are about more than migration and, indeed, culture wars more generally. Typically, they also put a premium on charismatic leafership and, if in office, on the rights of the executive over other branches of government and any intermediate institutions. And this is exactly what we have seen from the Conservative Party since 2019
- ^ a b "Local Council Political Compositions". Open Council Data UK. Retrieved 19 December 2022.