London Assembly Constituencies

Current Member: Brian Coleman (Conservative) born 1961. Barnet councillor since 1998. Has courted controversey by outing Ted Heath and accusing Sir Ian Blair of being drunk at public functions. Member of the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden since 2000. Holds the rotating Chairmanship of the authority along with Lib Dem member Sally Hamwee.

2008 candidates:
Current Member: Brian Coleman (Conservative) see above.
Nicky Gavron (Labour) born 1945, Worcester. Educated at Worcester Girls Grammar School and the Courtauld Institute. Former lecturer. Former Haringey councillor. London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey 2000-2004, Londonwide list member since 2004. Deputy Mayor of London from 2000-2003. She was selected as Labour’s candidate for Mayor in the 2004 Mayoral election, but stood aside after Ken Livingstone’s readmission to the party. Deputy mayor since 2004.
Miranda Dunn (Green) born Putney. Former actress, now full time political activist and housewife. Contested Barnet and Camden in 2004 and 2000 London Assembly elections. COntested Finchley and Golders Green 2001. Convicted of disorderly conduct in 2007 for breaking through Treasury security cordons to shout “Gordon Bown is a war criminal”, she had previously been arrested for criminal damage to a carpet after throwing a tomato at President Bush.
Nick Russell (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Durham University and Oxford University. Organisation development consultant.
David Stevens (English Democrat) born 1966.
Dave Hoefling (Left List)
Graham Dare (Vertias) Medium and spiritualist healer. Croydon councillor 1998-2002, originally for the Conservative party but defected to the Liberal Democrats 2001. Contested Croydon South 2005 for Veritas.
Clement Adebayo (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party)
Magnus Nielsen (UKIP) Educated at George Dixons Grammar School and University of London. Tour guide. Contested Holborn and St Pancras 2001, GLA elections 2004, Hampstead and Highgate 2005

Current Member: James Cleverly (Conservative) born London. Commercial manager for a magazine publisher. TA officer. Contested Lewisham East 2005 and Lewisham mayoral election. GLA member for Bexley and Bromley since 2008.

2008 Candidates:
James Cleverly (Conservative) see above.
Alex Heslop (Labour) Local government housing officer. Tower Hamlets councillor.
Tom Papworth (Liberal Democrat) Bromley councillor since 2007.
Ann Garrett (Green) born 1942. Educated at Central School of Speech and Drama. Teacher and lecturer. Contested Bexley and Bromley in London assembly elections 2004. Contested Bromley and Chislehurst 2005, 2006 by-election.
John Hemming-Clark (Independents to save Queen Mary’s Hospital) born 1960. Publisher. Contested Bromley and Chislehurst by-election 2006.
Steven Uncles (English Democrat) born 1964. Educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School. Interim manager. Contested South East region in 2004 European elections region. Contested Bromley and Chislehurst by-election 2006. Contested South Wales West 2007 Welsh elections.
Miranda Suit (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Founder of Mediamarch. Contested Bexley and Bromley in 2004 GLA election.
Mick Greenhough (UKIP) Contested Orpington 2005.
David Davis (Left List)
Paul Winnett (National Front) Self employed. Contested North Southwark and Bermondsey 2005, Bromley and Chislehurst by-election 2006.

Current Member: Navin Shah (Labour) Leader of the Labour group on Harrow council. First elected as GLA member for Brent and Harrow 2008.

2008 Candidates:
Bob Blackman (Conservative) Brent councillor since 1986, council leader 1991-1994, deputy leader since 2006. Member of the London Assembly for Brent and Harrow 2004-2008. Contested Brent South 1992, Bedford 1997, Brent North 2005. Will contest Harrow East at the next election.
Shahrar Ali (Green) Educated at UCL. Green Party London Policy Coordinator. Contested Brent East 2005. Will contest Brent Central at the next General election.
James Allie (Liberal Democrat) Solicitor. Brent councillor. Contested Brent South 2005.
Arvind Tailor (English Democrat) born 1964.
Pat McManus (Left List) Nurse. Former member of Sinn Fein and Labour.
Sunita Webb (UKIP)
Zena Sherman (Christian Party) Housing support worker and street pastor.

Current Member: John Biggs (Labour) Non practicising lawyer. Former lab technician and systems analyst. Former leader of Tower Hamlets council. London Assembly member for City and East since 2000.

2008 Candidates:
John Biggs (Labour) see above.
Phil Briscoe (Conservative) Runs a public affairs company. Tower Hamlets councillor.
Hanif Abdulmuhit (Respect) Self employed project manager. Newham councillor since 2006
Michael Gavan (Left List) Candidate from the SWP faction of Respect. UNISON branch chair in Newham, currently the focus of industrial action by the union after his dismissal by the council.
Heather Finlay (Green)
Rajonuddin Jalal (Liberal Democrat) Regeneration officer. Tower Hamlets councillor 1990-1998.
Bob Bailey (BNP) Former royal marine. Barking and Dagenham councillor since 2006. Also contesting London list.
John Griffiths (English Democrat) born 1947, London. Former civil servant, now an information officer.
Tom Conquest (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) born 1985.
Michael McGough Contested Chingford and Woodford Green 2005.
Graham Kemp (National Front) Contested Feltham and Heston 2005
Julie Crawford (Independent) meat processing worker. Standing for the Communist League.

Current Member: Steve O’Connell (Conservative) born 1956, Dulwich. Educated at Brockley County Grammar. Former bank manager. Croydon councillor since 2002. Deputy leader of Croydon council. GLA member for Croydon and Sutton since 2008

2008 candidates:
Shafi Khan (Labour) born Bangladesh. Educated at Dhaka University with a doctorate from Moscow Civil Engineering University. Maths lecturer. Croydon councillor since 1994.
Steve O’Connell (Conservative) see above
Shasha Khan (Green) Director in a family business and runs a dance music record label. Contested Croydon North 2005. Will contest Croydon North at next election.
Abigail Lock (Liberal Democrat) Sutton councillor. Parliamentary officer for Scope.
Richard Castle (English Democrat) born 1966, Carshalton. Educated at Stanley Park secondary. Train driver. London co-ordinator for Fathers 4 Justice.
David Campanale (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Founding chairman and former President of the CPA. Contested Londonwide list in 2000 and 2004 GLA elections. Former SDP member and Kingston councillor.
David Pickles Sutton councillor, defected from the Conservatives in 2007.
Zana Hussain (Left List)

Current Member: Richard Barnes (Conservative) born Peterborough. Educated at the University of Wales. Hillingdon councillor since 1982. London Assembly member for Ealing and Hillingdon since 2000.

2008 candidates:
Richard Barnes (Conservative) see above
Ranjit Dheer (Labour) Former Chair of Ealing’s Race Equality council. Ealing councillor. Deputy leader of the Labour group on Ealing council.
Nigel Bakhai (Liberal Democrat) born 1971, Shoreham. Educated at Brighton College and the University of Bradford. Equipment Demand Planner for Xerox. Contested Ealing Southall 2005 and 2007 by-election.
Sarah Edwards (Green) Works for Victim Support. Contested Ealing and Hillingdon in 2004 London Assembly election. Contested Ealing Southall 2005.
Sati Chaggar (English Democrat) born Nairobi, 1961. Owns a car repair business. Contested Ealing Southall by-election 2007.
Salvinder Dhillon (Left List) Contested Ealing and Hillingdon in 2004 London Assembly election. Contested Ealing Southall as an Independent in 2001, for Respect in 2007 by-election.
Lynnda Robson (UKIP) Researcher for Gerard Batten
Ian Edward (National Front) Contested Ruislip-Northwood 2005.
Mary Boyle (Christian Party) Radiographer at Hillingdon hospital. Has worked with the Simon Community and COPE foundation.

Current Member: Joanne McCartney (Labour) Barrister. Enfield councillor from 1998-2006. London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey since 2004.

2008 candidates:
Joanne McCartney (Labour) see above.
Matthew Laban (Conservative) Teacher. Enfield councillor.
Monica Whyte (Liberal Democrat) Barrister. Haringey councillor. Also contested Londonwide list.
Pete McAskie (Green) Green party management co-ordinator. Contested Tottenham 2005.
Teresa Cannon (English Democrat) born 1957. Regional Manager
Segun Johnson (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Pastor at Liberty church London.
Sait Akgul (Left List) former Chairman of the Kurdish Federation UK. Contested Enfield and Haringey & Londonwide list in 2004 London elections.
Brian Hall (UKIP) Cab driver. Contested Brent East by-election 2003, Enfield and Haringey 2004 GLA elections, Enfield Southgate 2005

Current Member: Len Duvall (Labour) Former leader of Greenwich council. Member of the London Assembly for Greenwich and Lewisham since 2000. Chair of the Labour group and the Metropolitan Police Authority. Awarded the OBE in 1998.

2008 candidates:
Len Duvall (Labour) see above.
Andy Jennings (Conservative) Chartered accountant. Greenwich councillor since 2006.
Brian Robson (Liberal Democrat) born Sunderland. Educated at Leeds University. Lewisham councillor since 2006.
Sue Luxton (Green) English teacher. Lewisham councillor. Contested Greenwich and Lewisham in 2004 London elections.
Joanna Munilla (English Democrat) born 1969. Busker.
Chris Flood (Socialist Alternative) Psychiatric nurse.
Steven Hammond (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Ordained lay minister. Works in property finance and management. President of the CPA. Contested GLA elections 2004, West Ham 2005.
Arnold Tarling (UKIP) Accountant. Contested Lewisham East 2005.
Tess Culnane (National Front) Contested 2004 GLA election and European election for the BNP.
Jennifer Jones (Left List)

Current Member: Valerie Shawcross (Labour) Former Croydon councillor (1994-2000) and leader of Croydon council. London Assembly member for Lambeth and Southwark since 2000. Chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Awarded the CBE in 2002.

2008 candidates:
Val Shawcross (Labour) see above.
Shirley Houghton (Conservative) Chartered accountant. Tower Hamlets councillor since 2006.
Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat) educated at Thornden Secondary and the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Political researcher and communications manager. Southwark councillor since 1998. Deputy leader of Southwark council 2002-2004. Contested Lambeth and Southwark in 2004 GLA elections. Contested Dulwich and West Norwood 2001. Will contest Vauxhall at the next general election. Also contesting Londonwide list.
Shane Collins (Green) Contested Streatham 2005.
Janus Polenceus (English Democrat) born 1983. Educated at St Michael’s Secondary School, Bermondsey. Actor. Contested Vauxhall 2005.
Jens Winton (UKIP) Police communications officer. Contested Lewisham West 2005.
Jasmijn De Boo (Animals Count) Educated at Scholengemeenschap Godelinde, Naarden and Van Hall Institute, Leeuwarden. Education and Training Co-ordinator at the World Society for the Protection for Animals. Leader of Animals Count party
Katt Young (Left List) Manager of a Southall Community Centre.
Daniel Lambert (Socialist Party) Contested Vauxhall 2005
Geoffrey Macharia (Christian Peoples Alliance) Legal representative and chair of HEAL, an HIV, homelessness and immigration charity.

Current Member: Richard Tracey (Conservative) born 1943. Educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford upon Avon and Birmingham University. Journalist. MP for Surbiton 1983-1997. Contested Kingston and Surbiton 1997. GLA member for Merton and Wandsworth since 2008.

Candidates:
Richard Tracey (Conservative) see above.
Leonie Cooper (Labour) Housing association officer. Wandsworth councillor. Contested Hornchurch 1992.
Roy Vickery (Green) Natural history museum curator.
Shas Sheehan (Liberal Democrat) born Lahore, Pakistan. Educated at Rosa Bassett Grammar School and UCL. Former advertising planner. Richmond upon Thames councillor.
Steve Scott (English Democrat)born 1970.
Strachan McDonald (UKIP) Self-employed in the telecoms business. Contested Tooting 2005.
Kris Stewart (Left List)
Ellen Greco (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Special Needs Co-ordinator. Contested GLA elections 2000 and 2004.

Current Member: Roger Evans (Conservative) born 1964, Lancashire. Barrister. Former Waltham Forest councillor and Conservative group leader. Havering councillor since 2006. London Assembly member for Havering and Redbridge since 2000. Deputy leader of the Conservative group.

2008 Candidates:
Roger Evans (Conservative) see above.
Balvinder Saund (Labour) Redbridge councillor.
Farrukh Islam (Liberal Democrat) Chartered accountant. Redbridge councillor.
Ashley Gunstock (Green) Former actor in ITV’s the Bill, now an English teacher. Contested Finchley and Golders Green 1997, Leyton and Wanstead 2001, 2005.
Leo Brookes (English Democrat) born 1949, Tidworth. Civil servant.
Lawrence Webb (UKIP) UKIP London regional organiser. Contested Hornchurch 2005.
Carole Vincent (Left List) born 1954. Former health worker. Contestant in Big Brother 8, finishing fifth.
Paula Warren (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Member of the Christian Party. Runs a business selling festive decorations.
Peter Thorogood (Independent)

Current Member: Tony Arbour (Conservative) born 1945. Educated at Surbiton County Grammar School and Kingston college of Technology. Barrister and former lecturer. Richmond councillor since 1968 and leader of the council from 2002-2006. GLC councillor for Surbiton 1983-1986. London assembly member for South West since 2000.

2008 candidates:
Current Member: Tony Arbour (Conservative) see above.
Stephen Knight (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Oxford and Southampton universities. Liberal Democrat political advisor at London Councils. Richmond councillor since 1998, deputy leader of Richmond council.
Ansuya Sodha (Labour) Contested West Central in 2004 London assembly elections. Barnet councillor.
John Hunt (Green) born Croydon. Educated at Oxford, Essex and Queen May College London. Nurse.
Roger Cooper (English Democrat) born 1945, Hertfordshire. Catering consultant.
Andrew Constantine (Free England) Banker. Contested Newport West in 2007 Welsh elections for the English Democrats. Originally selected as lead candidate in the English Democrat list, but resigned from the party to found the Free England party.
Sue May (Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party) Works for a housing association. CPA deputy mayoral candidate and GLA candidate 2000 and 2004.
Tansy Hoskins (Left List) GLA candidate in 2004.
Peter Dul (UKIP) Claims executive for an indemnity association. Chairman of the Anti-Common Market League. Contested Richmond Park 2005.
Andrew Cripps (National Front)

Current Member: Kit Malthouse (Conservative) born 1966. Former deputy leader of Westminster council. GLA member for West Central since 2008.

Candidates:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative) see above.
Murad Qureshi (Labour) Westminster councillor 1998-2006. Londonwide assembly member since 2004
Merlene Emerson (Liberal Democrat) born Singapore. Educated at Kings College. Former corporate lawyer.
Julia Stephenson (Green) author and journalist. Contested Kensington and Chelsea 2001, 2005. Contested West Central 2004.
Alex Vaughan (English Democrat) born 1974. Educated at North West Kent College. Utilities Safety Manager
Explo Nani-Kofi (Left List)
Abby Dharamsey (Independent) born Tanganyika. Accountant and management consultant, currently operating a mobile estate agency network. Unsuccessfully bid to run the national lottery in 2000. Gaoled for 13 months in 1993 for mortgage deception after the collapse of his Sentana pools company. Contested Regent’s Park and Kensington North 2005.
Paul Wiffen (UKIP)

Current Member: Jennette Arnold (Labour) born Monserrat. List member of the London assembly from 2000, after the resignation of David Lammy. London Assembly member for the North East since 2004.

2008 Candidates:
Jennette Arnold (Labour) see above.
Alexander Ellis (Conservative)
Meral Ece (Liberal Democrat) Hackney councillor 1994-2002. Islington councillor since 2002. Contested Hackey North and Stoke Newington 2001.
Aled Dilwyn Fisher (Green) LSE student.
John Dodds (English Democrat) born 1936.
Maxine Zola Hargreaves (Christian Party)
Nicholas Jones (UKIP)

See here for Londonwide list members and list candidates.

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1. Andrea

   I guess everyone from position 5 doesn’t stand realistic chances of being elected (unless there’s a Scottish style Labour collapse in the constituencies).
   Twycross and Copley have chances depending on the combination of Labour list share and number of constituencies won

   July 13th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
2. H.Hemmelig

   Hi Barnaby

   How do you read Andrew Dismore? Do you think he is giving up on Hendon? And why would he do so, given how rooted he is in the constituency, the narrow majority and the demographics moving to Labour?

   I thought maybe you would have some interesting insight, given that I think you said you knew him.

   July 13th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
3. Barnaby Marder

   Well I don’t really know him these days. He was a member of my CLP when he was a long-haired, bearded young man, but I’ve only seen him occasionally since those days, one occasion being at the London Labour Party conference. I guess we’ll have to wait & see what his intentions are. I personally wouldn’t be surprised to see him stand again in Hendon, but wouldn’t put any money on it.

   July 13th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
4. Pete Whitehead

   I pretty much agree with HH and Barnaby here. While on paper Barnet & Camden is the most vulnerable seat, in Ealing & Hillingdon Labour were actually ahead in the votes cast in the 2010 general election (though not in the local elections that year). They were within 3% in Barnet & Camden and within 6% in Merton & Wandsworth. Therefore a fairly modest swing compared with then (which is the least to be expected) would put these very much in play. Of course against that you have to consider that general election turnout helped Labour and the lower turnout is likely to disproportionately hurt them. There was also some element of personal votes – in Ealing & Hillingdon this is particularly so with both John MacDonnell and Stephen Pound apparently enjoying a large personal vote. Local election patterns are probably more relevant – Ealing and Wandsworth are both boroughs where the Conservatives tend to perform better in local than national elections, and that appears to be the pattern at GLA elections too. In addition, while there is inevitably a lot of spli-ticket voting there will also be an element of coat-tails and therefore if Boris Johnson is outperforming the party nationally (and opinion polls certainly currently show him with much more support than the Conservatives have in Westminster voting intentions), then that is bound to have some effect in favour of his party’s candidates in other parts of the GLA election. I don’t know what kind of incumbency boost sitting GLA members enjoy. Its hard to believe that they are that well known in such large areas. But Richard Barnes appears to have done well (IIRC he did considerably better int he constituency vote than his party did in the list). For those reasons I think that both Barnet & Camden and Ealing & Hillingdon are too close to call but both have a good chance of going Labour. Merton & Wandsworth I would expect to be quite narrowly Conservative and I think Croydon & Sutton is rather beyond Labour, barring a landslide

   July 13th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
5. Joe James B

   If Miliband is still in place next May, and is going on about matters completely trivial, not just compared to those elsewhere in the world, but to those in this country,
   then perhaps it’ll be the Conservatives gaining seats rather than the other way round.

   July 13th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
6. H.Hemmelig

   A nice fantasy, but it realistically isn’t going to happen.

   The Tories are running up a down escalator in London, and every year gets that little bit harder due to the changing demographics.

   For the Tories to gain constituency seats, that means Brent-Harrow or Enfield-Haringey. I would argue that both are demographically out of reach for the Tories now even in a pretty good year.

   We can expect Labour to gain one constituency seat, maybe 3 if they do extremely well.

   Barnet-Camden will be interesting, as it’s hard to know whether the bombastic Brian Coleman is a positive or a negative for the Tory vote.

   July 13th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
7. Joe James B

   Ken will be probably be defeated by about 56% to 44%
   but the Tories will lose GLA seats.

   July 14th, 2011 at 12:19 am
8. H.Hemmelig

   I agree. Labour made a serious error in putting up Ken Livingstone again. He looks like yesterday’s man and a sore loser, to say nothing of his divisive campaigning. I would hope that enough of London’s more economically succesful ethnic minority residents have moved on from Ken’s tired old identity politics to be able to support Boris.

   A business-minded well-known Labour heavyweight such as Alan Sugar could have given Boris a run for his money.

   Whilst inevitably constituency GLA seats will be lost, the Tories might pick up a couple on the list as it seems their vote share is holding up quite well, in contrast to the Lib Dems.

   July 14th, 2011 at 9:03 am
9. akmd

   “I would hope that enough of London’s more economically succesful ethnic minority residents have moved on from Ken’s tired old identity politics to be able to support Boris.”

   Or they just might vote Lib Dem or Green next time!

   Joking aside, I agree with you about Alan Sugar. He would certainly have made Boris feel much less secure and it would have been interesting to see how he would have responded to that challenge.

   Instead, it seems that the scenario JJB proposed could well come to pass. Most likely GLA pickup for Labour would probably be Barnet & Camden but Ealing & Hillingdon is also a decent prospect.

   July 14th, 2011 at 11:58 am

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