BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP-7598, 26 April 2016 By Elise Uberoi Chris Watson London Elections 2016 Richard Keen Inside: 1. How London votes 2. Party summaries 3. Candidates 4. Mayoral election 5. London Assembly elections 6. Comparison of Mayoral and Assembly results 7. Turnout www.parliament.uk/commons-library | intranet.parliament.uk/commons-library |
[email protected] | @commonslibrary Number CBP-7598, 26 April 2016 2 Contents Summary 3 1. How London votes 4 2. Party summaries 5 Conservative 5 Labour 7 Liberal Democrat 9 Green 11 UKIP 13 3. Candidates 15 4. Mayoral election 16 5. London Assembly elections 19 6. Comparison of Mayoral and Assembly results 23 7. Turnout 27 Appendix I Mayoral election – first preference votes by constituency 28 Appendix II Mayoral election – second preference votes by constituency 29 Appendix III Assembly constituency election – voting by constituency 30 Appendix IV Assembly London-wide election – voting by constituency 31 Editor Richard Keen Authors Elise Uberoi Richard Keen Chris Watson Cover page image copyright: City Hall, London, Spiral Staircase – 1, by Colin. Licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) / image cropped 3 London Elections 2016 Summary Elections for the London Mayor and London Assembly were held on 5 May 2016. • The Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan was elected as Mayor of London. Khan won 1,148,716 first preference votes (44.2%), compared to 909,755 for Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith (35.0%). The total number of votes cast for Khan rose to 1,310,143 after second preference votes were redistributed, ahead of Goldsmith, with 994,614 votes.