Greater London Assembly and Mayor Elections

GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY ELECTIONS
4 May 2000

The Greater London Authority has 25 members and a directly-elected mayor, whom I shall deal with first.

The Mayor of London was directly elected by the "supplementary vote" system of election. Under SV, voters had to mark two crosses on the ballot paper, one for their first preference, and one for their second preference. The result was as follows:

ELECTION OF MAYOR OF LONDON Electorate 5,093,464; Valid votes 1,714,162; Turnout 33.65%
Quota = 857,082		Stage I	Exclude nine candidates
Ken Livingstone Steven Norris Frank Dobson Susan Kramer Ram Gidoomal Darren Johnson Michael Newland Damian Hockney Geoffrey Ben-Nathan Ashwinkumar Tanna Geoffrey Clements Non-transferable	Independent Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Christian Peoples Alliance Green Party British National Party UK Independence Party Pro-Motorist and Small Shop Independent Natural Law Party	667,877 464,434 223,884 203,452 42,060 38,121 33,569 16,324 9,956 9,015 5,470 0	+108,550 +99,703 -223,884 -203,452 -42,060 -38,121 -33,569 -16,324 -9,956 -9,015 -5,470 +383,037	776,427 564,137 383,037

Ken Livingstone was therefore elected Mayor of London with a majority of 212,290.

The Greater London Authority was elected by the Additional Member system of proportional representation. Fourteen members were elected in single-member constituencies, the remaining eleven by a party list system under the following formula:

The votes cast in the list section of the ballot, across London, were counted.
Each party's votes were divided by the number of seats it had won in the constituency section of the election, plus one.
The first seat was allocated to the party with the highest score in this calculation.
The calculation was repeated for the second and subsequent list seats, but including list seats already gained in the calculation.
List seats were restricted to parties that gained over 5% of the list vote.
Seats were allocated to candidates heading the party list, excluding candidates who had already been elected in the constituency elections, or as Mayor of London.

The result of the Assembly election was as follows:

GREATER LONDON ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2000: CONSTITUENCY SECTION		14 seats
1	Conservative	526,707	8 seats
2	Labour	501,296	6 seats
3	Liberal Democrat	299,998
4	Green Party	162,457
5	London Socialist Alliance	42,549
6	Havering Residents Association	12,831
7	Independent - Ken Livingstone Supporter	12,581
8	Independent Labour - Ken Livingstone Candidate	11,918
9	UK Independence Party	2,115
10	Homeless and Addicted Party	1,600
11	Independent Universal Justice	1,501
12	Independent - More Freedom for the Motorist	1,465
13	Humanist Party	1,261
14	Reform 2000 Party	1,144
15	Maharishi's Natural Programmes - Peace, Health, Prosperity	1,081
16	Independent - Pro-Integrated Transport	1,049
17	Communist League	536
TOTAL Electorate Turnout Conservative majority		1,582,089 5,093,464 31.06% 25,411

GREATER LONDON ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2000: LIST ELECTION		11 seats
1	Labour	502,874	3 seats making 9 seats
2	Conservative	481,053	1 seat making 9 seats
3	Liberal Democrat	245,555	4 seats making 4 seats
4	Green Party	183,190	3 seats making 3 seats
5	Christian Peoples Alliance	55,192
6	British National Party	47,670
7	UK Independence Party	34,054
8	London Socialist Alliance	27,073
9	Independent	22,862
10	Campaign Against Tube Privatisation	17,401
11	Socialist Labour Party	13,690
12	PRO-MaSS (Pro-Motorist, Small Shop)	13,248
13	Natural Law Party	7,559
14	Communist Party of Britain	7,489
TOTAL Electorate Turnout Labour majority		1,659,630 5,093,464 32.58% 21,821

The winners of seats were as follows:

GREATER LONDON
Constituency section (14 seats): C 33% (8) Lab 32% (6) LD 19% Green 10%
List section (11 seats): Lab 30% (3) C 29% (1) LD 15% (4) Green 11% (3)

MAYOR OF LONDON	Ind	Ken Livingstone
CONSTITUENCY SECTION: Barnet and Camden Bexley and Bromley Brent and Harrow City and London East Croydon and Sutton Ealing and Hillingdon Enfield and Haringey Greenwich and Lewisham Havering and Redbridge Lambeth and Southwark London North East London South West London West Central Merton and Wandsworth	C C Lab Lab C C Lab Lab C Lab Lab C C C	Brian Coleman Robert Neill Lord Harris of Haringey John Biggs Andrew Pelling Richard Barnes Nicky Gavron Len Duvall Roger Evans Valerie Shawcross Meg Hillier Tony Arbour Angie Bray Elizabeth Howlett
LIST SECTION (11 seats):	LD Green LD Green LD Lab Lab LD Green Lab C	Baroness Hamwee Darren Johnson Lord Tope Victor Anderson Lynne Featherstone Trevor Phillips Samantha Heath Louise Bloom Jenny Jones David Lammy Eric Ollerenshaw

DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 7 May 2000: Changes in party allegiance, etc.

24 June 2000: David Lammy (Lab, London-wide) resigned after winning the Tottenham parliamentary by-election, to take up his duties in the House of Commons. He was replaced from the party list by Jennette Lewis.

Last updated 31 July 2000

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