Election to the London Assembly in 2004
An election to the London Assembly took place on June 10, 2004 , along with the 2004 election of the Mayor of London. The Assembly is elected through the additional membership system. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies , nine of which were won by the Conservatives and five by the Labor Party. A further eleven members were allocated by a London-wide top-up vote, with the stipulation that parties must receive at least 5% of the vote in order to qualify for the list. This latter rule prevented both the British National Party and the Respect Party from winning a seat, as both were just below the 5% threshold. That election saw losses for Labor and the Greens and gains for both the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, who achieved their first representation in the Assembly since its inception in 2000.
Result
The Conservative Party won Brent and Harrow of Labor (who lost 7.6% of their vote) but lost them again in the 2008 election. There were also great fluctuations in the Labor position in Barnet and Camden, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Greenwich and Lewisham, Havering and Redbridge and West Central. The Liberal Democrats lost votes in most constituencies but won in Enfield and Haringey, Lambeth and Southwark, and Merton and Wandsworth. In Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Greenwich and Lewisham, and Havering and Redbridge, UKIP won large shares of votes.
