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London Assembly

The London Assembly is an elected body that supervises the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London. It has power to scrutinise the Mayor and authority, conduct investigations, to amend the budget and to initiate proposals.

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Makeup

There are 14 constituencies, each with one member, and then a further 11 members elected from a party lists to make the total members from each party proportional to the votes cast for that party across the whole of London. Members of the Assembly have the 'AM' after their names. The Additional Member System is used for the list members. The current state of the parties in the Assembly is:

    Party Seats Current Assembly
2000 2004
  Conservative 9 9                  
  Labour 9 7                  
  Liberal Democrat 4 5                  
  Green 3 2                  
  Veritas 0 2                  

Both Veritas members were elected on the United Kingdom Independence Party list but defected in February 2005 to the newly-formed party.

Constituency Members

See London Assembly constituencies for a list of London boroughs each constituency covers.

London Assembly constituencies
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Constituency Member Party
Barnet and Camden Brian Coleman Conservative
Bexley and Bromley Bob Neill Conservative
Brent and Harrow Robert Blackman Conservative
City and East John Biggs Labour
Croydon and Sutton Andrew Pelling Conservative
Ealing and Hillingdon Richard Barnes Conservative
Enfield and Haringey Joanne McCartney Labour
Greenwich and Lewisham Len Duvall Labour
Havering and Redbridge Roger Evans Conservative
Lambeth and Southwark Valerie Shawcross Labour
Merton and Wandsworth Elizabeth Howlett Conservative
North East Jennette Arnold Labour
South West Tony Arbour Conservative
West Central Angie Bray Conservative

London-wide Members

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Last updated: 05-16-2005 14:40:59