London Conservatives

Party of the British Conservative Party that operates in London

London Conservatives

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|

*     * Conservatism (British)
* Economic liberalism
* British unionism

Political position| Centre-right to right-wing[1][2]
National affiliation| Conservatives
Colours|  Blue
House of Commons (London seats)|

9 / 75

London Assembly|

8 / 25

Local councillors in London[3]|

403 / 1,817

Council control in London[3]|

6 / 32

Directly elected Mayoralties in London|

1 / 5

Website
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The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.

## Party strength

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The 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

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Election | Candidate | Results

|
|

2000 | Steven Norris | N Not elected
2004 | Steven Norris | N Not elected
2008 | Boris Johnson | Y Elected
2012 | Boris Johnson | Y Elected
2016 | Zac Goldsmith | N Not elected
2021 | Shaun Bailey | N Not elected
2024 | Susan Hall | N Not elected

## Current representatives

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### Members of Parliament

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* 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

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* 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

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* Main article: 2018 London local elections

Council | Councillors

|

Barking and Dagenham |

0 / 51

Barnet |

22 / 63

Bexley |

33 / 45

Brent |

5 / 57

Bromley |

36 / 58

Camden |

3 / 55

Croydon |

33 / 70

Ealing |

5 / 70

Enfield |

25 / 63

Greenwich |

3 / 55

Hackney |

5 / 57

Hammersmith and Fulham |

10 / 50

Haringey |

0 / 57

Harrow |

31 / 55

Havering |

23 / 55

Hillingdon |

30 / 53

Hounslow |

10 / 62

Islington |

0 / 51

Kensington and Chelsea |

35 / 50

Kingston upon Thames |

3 / 48

Lambeth |

0 / 63

Lewisham |

0 / 54

Merton |

7 / 57

Newham |

0 / 66

Redbridge |

5 / 63

Richmond upon Thames |

1 / 54

Southwark |

0 / 63

Sutton |

20 / 55

Tower Hamlets |

1 / 45

Waltham Forest |

13 / 60

Wandsworth |

22 / 58

Westminster |

23 / 54

### Directly elected mayors

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Mayoralty | Mayor

|

| Croydon | Jason Perry

## Electoral performance

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### General elections

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Date  | Votes won  | % of Votes  | Change  | MPs elected  | Change

|
|
|
|
|

2019 | 1,205,129  | 32.0%  |  |

21 / 73

2024 | 676,368  | 20.4%  | 11.6%  |

9 / 75

| 12

### European elections

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Date  | Votes won  | % of Votes  | Change  | MEPs elected  | Change

|
|
|
|
|

| 1979 |  |  | N/A |

0 / 10

| 1984 |  |  |  |

0 / 10

| 1989 |  |  |  |

0 / 10

| 1994 |  |  |  |

1 / 10

| 1999 | 372,989  | 32.7%  | unknown  |

4 / 10

| 3
| 2004 | 504,941  | 26.8%  | 5.9%  |

3 / 9

| 1
| 2009 | 479,037  | 27.4%  | 0.6%  |

3 / 8

| 2014 | 495,639  | 22.5%  | 4.8%  |

2 / 8

| 1
| 2019 | 177,964  | 7.9%  | 14.6%  |

0 / 8

| 2

### Regional elections

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#### Greater London Council elections

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The 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

|
|
|
|
|
|
|

1964 |  | 956,543  | 40.1%  | N/A |

36 / 100

| N/A | Labour win
1967 | Desmond Plummer | 1,136,092  | 52.6%  | 12.5%  |

82 / 100

| 46  | Conservative win
1970 | Desmond Plummer | 971,227  | 50.6%  | 2.0%  |

65 / 100

| 17  | Conservative win
1973 | Desmond Plummer | 743,123  | 38.0%  | 12.6  |

32 / 92

| 33  | Labour win
1977 | Horace Cutler | 1,177,390  | 52.5%  | 14.5%  |

64 / 92

| 32  | Conservative win
1981 | Horace Cutler | 894,234  | 39.7%  | 12.8  |

41 / 92

| 23  | Labour win

#### Mayoral elections

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The table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Mayoral elections since 2000.

Election  | Candidate  | 1st Round vote  | 2nd Round Vote  | Result

|
|
|
|

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

|
|
|

2024 | Susan Hall | 812,397  | 32.7%  |

| Lost

### Assembly elections

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The table below shows the London Conservatives results in London Assembly elections since 2000.

Election  | Leader  | Votes (constituency) | Votes (region) | Seats

|
|
|
|

#  | %  | #  | %
2000 | Eric Ollerenshaw | 526,422  | 33.2  | 481,053  | 29.0  |

9 / 25

2004 | Bob Neill | 562,047  | 31.2  | 533,696  | 28.5  |

9 / 25

2008 | Richard Barnes | 900,569  | 37.4  | 835,535  | 34.1  |

11 / 25

2012 | James Cleverly | 722,280  | 32.7  | 708,528  | 32.0  |

9 / 25

2016 | Gareth Bacon | 812,415  | 31.1  | 764,230  | 29.2  |

8 / 25

2021 | Susan Hall | 833,021  | 32.0  | 795,081  | 30.7  |

9 / 25

### Borough council elections

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The table below shows the London Conservatives results in elections for the London Boroughs.

Year | % of
Vote | Number of
Councillors | Number of
Councils

|
|
|

1964 |  |

668 / 1,859

9 / 32

1968 |  |

1,438 / 1,863

28 / 32

1971 |  |

597 / 1,863

10 / 32

1974 | 40.8  |

713 / 1,867

13 / 32

1978 | 48.7  |

960 / 1,908

17 / 32

1982 | 42.2  |

984 / 1,914

17 / 32

1986 | 35.4  |

685 / 1,914

11 / 32

1990 | 37.8  |

731 / 1,914

12 / 32

1994 | 31.2  |

519 / 1,917

4 / 32

1998 | 32.0  |

538 / 1,917

4 / 32

2002 | 34.1  |

654 / 1,861

8 / 32

2006 | 34.9  |

785 / 1,861

14 / 32

2010 | 31.7  |

717 / 1,861

11 / 32

2014 | 26.4  |

612 / 1,861

9 / 32

2018 | 28.8  |

508 / 1,861

7 / 32

## See also

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* London Labour
* London Liberal Democrats

## References

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1. ^ 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"
2. ^ 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"
3. ^ a b "Local Council Political Compositions". Open Council Data UK. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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