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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.
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Overview
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%.
Constituency candidates
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List candidates
Rejected Ballots 29,733 (1.1%)
Total Votes 2,645,409
Note that party descriptions can be used as alternatives to the registered party name. Descriptions used in this election are: