The 2004 London Elections Includes results from the 2005 Parliamentary General Election in London and from the 2006 London Borough Council General Elections Previous publications on local government elections General Election of Greater London Councillors - 9 April 1964 London Borough Council Elections - 7 May 1964 General Election of Greater London Councillors - 13 April 1967 London Borough Council Elections - 9 May 1968 Greater London Council Elections - 9 April 1970 London Borough Council Elections - 13 May 1971 Greater London Council Elections - 12 April 1973 London Borough Council Elections - 2 May 1974 Greater London Council Elections - 5 May 1977 London Borough Council Elections - 4 May 1978 Greater London Council Elections - 7 May 1981 London Borough Council Elections - 6 May 1982 London Borough Council Elections - 8 May 1986 Inner London Education Authority Direct Elections - 8 May 1986 London Borough Council Elections - 3 May 1990 London Borough Council By-elections - May 1990 to May 1994 London Borough Council Elections - 5 May 1994 London Borough Council Elections - 7 May 1998 London Borough Council Elections - 2 May 2002 Published 1964 to 1982 by the Greater London Council, 1986 by the London Residuary Body, 1990 to 1998 by the London Research Centre, and 2002 by the Greater London Authority. The London Elections 10 June 2004 The Parliamentary General Election 5 May 2005 The London Borough Council General Elections 4 May 2006 Michael Minors Dennis Grenham Copyright: Greater London Authority October 2006 Published by: Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk More London London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4100 minicom 020 7983 4458 ISBN 10: 1 85261 916 3 ISBN 13: 978 1 85261 916 9 Acknowledgements: This publication has grown over two years and the authors recognise the considerable contribution made by the kind help, advice and support given by many people at the GLA. Principal among those have been Anthony Mayer, John Bennett, Rob Lewis, Kelly Rump and Alison Vydulinska. All maps in this publication are based on Ordnance Survey material with permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Offi ce and are © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. (Greater London Authority) (LA 100032379) (2006). Data from the 2000 and 2004 elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, and from the 2004 election for the European Parliament were provided by the London Elects Team at City Hall. Electronic counting at the elections was undertaken by Data and Research Services plc, on behalf of the Greater London Returning Offi cer. Further information on GLA elections can be found on the London Elects web site: www.londonelects.org.uk. Statistics from the 1999 European Parliamentary election were taken from European Parliamentary Election Expenses, Home Offi ce Statistical Bulletin 16/00, Home Offi ce 2000. Figures on rejected ballot papers at that election were provided separately by the Home Offi ce. Data from the 2001 Parliamentary general election were from The Parliamentary General Election, 2001, DMAG Briefi ng 2004/7, GLA 2004. The 2005 Parliamentary general election data were taken from the Electoral Commission’s web site and modifi ed using Guide to the House of Commons 2005, The Times 2005, and London borough web sites. Data from the 2006 London borough general elections were collected, principally, from the borough elections offi cers, by the GLA Data Management and Analysis Group (DMAG). The authors would also like to acknowledge the following sources of the photographs used in this publication: City Hall ceiling - the cover: Adam Hinton; the Assembly Chamber - page 5: Hayley Madden; the European Parliament, Strasbourg - page 23: Atelier Architecture; City Hall - pages 63 and 221: Sarah Dyson; the Assembly Chamber - pages 147, 157 and 163: Hayley Madden. Contents page page Foreword ii Detailed tables - 2004 elections 63 Introduction 1 Results – Assembly constituencies 65 Summary 2 Mayoral election – fi rst preference 65 Mayoral election – second preference 81 The results of the elections 5 Assembly election – constituency members 97 Election for Mayor of London 6 Assembly election – Londonwide members 113 Election for the London Assembly 10 European election 129 Election for the European Parliament 18 Elected Members 21 Statistics – Assembly constituencies 147 Turnout 149 The election statistics 23 Postal ballot papers 150 Turnout 24 Manually-entered ballot papers 151 Spoiled ballot papers 26 Rejected ballot papers 152 Postal ballot papers 28 Manually-entered ballot papers 30 Results – London boroughs 157 Statistics – London boroughs 163 The parties’ performances 33 British National Party 34 Parliamentary election, 2005 - details 173 Conservatives 36 London borough elections, 2006 - details 187 Greens 38 Labour 40 Appendices 221 Liberal Democrats 42 Respect 44 Party codes used 223 United Kingdom Independence Party 46 Nominations 224 Christian People’s Alliance 48 Residents 49 Technical notes 228 Electing members for the London Assembly 228 The parliamentary general election 2005 51 The European Parliament elections 229 The London borough general elections 2006 57 The d’Hondt formula 229 The conduct of the election 229 Electronic counting 230 Manually-entered ballot papers 230 Spoiled ballot papers 231 GLA Data Management and Analysis Group The 2004 London Elections Page i Foreword One of the Greater London Returning Offi cer’s responsibilities is to make sure that the London electorate, and the public in general, are fully informed of the conduct and results of relevant London elections. This was accomplished for the 2000 and 2004 Greater London Authority elections primarily through local posting of nominations and results, and through the publication of an extensive range of data and information on the London Elects web site. This new publication supplements those channels with a more studied and in-depth analysis of the results. It includes all the important information in a format which, it is hoped, will be accessible and useful to those who have not had access to the internet, or who prefer the more traditional forms of publication. The 2004 combined London elections were the most complex ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. Voters elected the Mayor of London, 25 London Assembly Members and nine Members of the European Parliament for the London region. Aside from the European election, these were the second series of elections for the new system of regional government for London, following the inaugural elections in 2000. The election offi cers again used electronic counting to enhance the speed and accuracy of processing. Electronic counting also facilitated the production of detailed analyses of voting for geographic areas smaller than the divisions traditionally used when analysing parliamentary and local authority election results. Anthony Mayer Greater London Returning Offi cer Page ii The 2004 London Elections GLA Data Management and Analysis Group Introduction The electronic counting and analysis used in the 2004 London elections meant entities – the election of the 14 constituency members as one, and the election that although candidates were being elected for Greater London Assembly of the 11 London-wide members as the second. The remainder of the report constituencies (in the Assembly election) and London as a whole (in the generally maintains this distinction, referring to the two parts of the Assembly Mayoral, Assembly and European elections), besides being available for those elections as the Assembly constituency election and the Assembly list election areas (as in 2000), voting details were provided for the fi rst time for the 33 as appropriate. local authority areas in London and for their constituent electoral wards. This last division of wards did not apply to the area covered by the City of London Brief analyses of turnout, rejected ballot papers, postal voting and manually- since several of their 25 electoral wards contain very few or no residents, and entered votes follow. so data were provided instead for the three polling districts used by the City. Throughout the remainder of this report, references to wards in London should The performance of individual parties in the four elections are then studied, be understood to refer to wards in the 32 London boroughs and polling districts using mapping to illustrate voting patterns. in the City of London. The disaggregation of the data into boroughs and wards introduced a small number of discrepancies at these levels which cannot be A brief analysis of the 2005 parliamentary general election is enhanced by reconciled to the offi cial results at constituency level. All of these differences comparison with the 2004 results reworked to approximate to parliamentary are trivial in size. constituencies. A further brief analysis is provided of the 2006 London Borough Council general elections. This report will present the full results of each election for the Assembly constituency areas and summary results for local authority areas. Much analysis The commentary is complemented by a comprehensive set of detailed has been carried out at ward level and summaries are provided in the form of tabulations at Assembly constituency and local authority levels. The election mapping. results are also available on the London Elects web site. The report begins by providing a summary of the fi nal results. It then analyses voting in each of the elections in turn, treating the Assembly election as two GLA Data Management and Analysis Group The 2004 London Elections Page 1 Page 2 The 2004 London Elections GLA Data Management and Analysis Group Summary Just under 2 million people voted in these elections, the second time Londoners of electors chose to vote differently in each election. The table below illustrates had been able to vote for their new-style London government of Mayor and this. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is in the support for the Labour Assembly and, at the same time, for Members of the European Parliament.