London Assembly election, 2016

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25 London Assembly Seats 13 seats needed for majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jeremy Corbyn	David Cameron	Natalie Bennett
Party	Labour	Conservative	Green
Last election	12	9	2
Seats won	12	8	2
Seat change		1
List vote	1,054,801	764,230	207,959
Percentage	40.3%	29.2%	8.0%
Swing	0.8%	2.8%	0.6%
FPTP Seats	9	5	0
List Seats	3	3	2

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Nigel Farage	Tim Farron
Party	UKIP	Liberal Democrat
Last election	0	2
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2	1
List vote	171,069	165,580
Percentage	6.5%	6.3%
Swing	2.0%	0.5%
FPTP Seats	0	0
List Seats	2	1

The left side shows constituency winners of the election by their party colours. The right side shows regional winners of the election for the additional members by their party colours.

The 2016 London Assembly election was an election held on 5 May 2016 to elect the members of the London Assembly. It took place on the same day as the London mayoral election and the United Kingdom local elections.

The election system used is called the Additional Member System. There are 14 constituencies that elect one member each to the Assembly. These seats have been won only by the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. The remaining 11 seats are distributed by a second vote, by a modified D'Hondt method of closed-list voting, with a 5% minimum threshold. These seats have been won by other parties too, namely the Green Party, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, and in the past the British National Party. The overall result is an attempted compromise between constituency representation and London-wide proportional representation.

Those who were eligible had to be registered to vote before 19 April 2016 in order to take part in this election.

Labour received the largest ever number of votes for a party in a London Assembly election, becoming the first party to poll over 1 million votes. The Conservative Party won just 8 Assembly seats, its worst-ever performance in a London Assembly election. The Green Party once again elected 2 Assembly members, and UKIP returned to the London Assembly for the first time since the election of 2004. The Liberal Democrats elected just 1 Assembly member, their worst-ever result. The Women's Equality Party, standing for the first time, attracted 91,772 votes (3.51%) on the regional list, but did not elect any Assembly members due to the 5% threshold. No other party polled above 2%.

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