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London Conservatives
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
National affiliation	Conservatives
Colours	Blue
House of Commons (London seats)	9 / 75
London Assembly	8 / 25
Local councillors in London	403 / 1,817
Council control in London	6 / 32
Directly elected Mayoralties in London	1 / 5
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The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.

Party strength

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

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

Members of Parliament

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

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

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

Mayoralty		Mayor
	Croydon	Jason Perry

Electoral performance

General elections

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

	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

Greater London Council elections

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

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

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

Election	Leader	Votes (constituency)		Votes (region)		Seats
Election	Leader	#	%	#	%	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

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

References

^ 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.

[SaBa23-1] 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

[Ba23-2] 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

[opencouncildatauk-3] "Local Council Political Compositions". Open Council Data UK. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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