London Conservatives
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. They hold 21 of 73 London seats in the House of Commons and 8 of 25 seats in the London Assembly. The party controls 7 of 32 London boroughs, and won 508 out of the 1,851 Councillors in the 2018 local elections.
The party held the Mayoralty of London from 2008 until losing to Labour in 2016.Mayoral candidates
Current representatives
Members of Parliament
Council | Councillors |
Barking and Dagenham | |
Barnet | |
Bexley | |
Brent | |
Bromley | |
Camden | |
Croydon | |
Ealing | |
Enfield | |
Greenwich | |
Hackney | |
Hammersmith and Fulham | |
Haringey | |
Harrow | |
Havering | |
Hillingdon | |
Hounslow | |
Islington | |
Kensington and Chelsea | |
Kingston upon Thames | |
Lambeth | |
Lewisham | |
Merton | |
Newham | |
Redbridge | |
Richmond upon Thames | |
Southwark | |
Sutton | |
Tower Hamlets | |
Waltham Forest | |
Wandsworth | |
Westminster | |
Electoral performance
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 | Votes won | % of Votes | Change | Councillors | Change | Result |
1964 | 956,543 | 40.1% | N/A | | N/A | Labour win |
1967 | 1,136,092 | 52.6% | 12.5% | | 46 | Conservative win |
1970 | 971,227 | 50.6% | 2.0% | | 17 | Conservative win |
1973 | 743,123 | 38.0% | 12.6 | | 33 | Labour win |
1977 | 1,177,390 | 52.5% | 14.5% | | 32 | Conservative win |
1981 | 894,234 | 39.7% | 12.8 | | 23 | Labour win |
London Assembly elections
The table below shows the results obtained by the London Conservatives in elections to the London Assembly.The table below shows the London Conservatives results in elections for the London Boroughs.
Year | % of Vote | Number of Councillors | Number of Councils |
1964 | | | |
1968 | | | |
1971 | | | |
1974 | 40.8 | | |
1978 | 48.7 | | |
1982 | 42.2 | | |
1986 | 35.4 | | |
1990 | 37.8 | | |
1994 | 31.2 | | |
1998 | 32.0 | | |
2002 | 34.1 | | |
2006 | 34.9 | | |
2010 | 31.7 | | |
2014 | 26.4 | | |
2018 | 28.8 | | |