London Assembly Elections 2021 - Record number of candidates and of political parties

 Record London-wide Assembly Member list

Official list of London Assembly List parties/candidates for 2021 elections

 

A total of 18 political parties and 171  candidates are standing to win the 11 London-wide London Assembly seats for the next three years.  In 2016, 12 political parties stood.

 

• A list of parties and independent candidates standing for the 11 London-wide Members of the London Assembly contest is below.
• The 14 Constituency Returning Officers will each publish their lists of Constituency candidates
• The complete list of all Mayoral and London Assembly candidates is published together on the London Elects website.

 The full list of parties standing in the London-wide contest are as follows:

• Animal Welfare Party
• Christian Peoples Alliance                                  
• Communist Party of Britain                               
• Conservatives                            
• Green Party                                                           
• Heritage Party
• Labour Party                              
• Let London Live                                       
• Liberal Democrats                    
• Londependence                                                                               
• London Real Party                                                             
• National Liberal Party                                                     
• ReformUK
• Rejoin EU                                                                             
• Social Democratic Party                                                                               
• Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition                                                      
• UKIP                                                                         
• Women's Equality Party

 

Voters will receive three ballot papers when they go to vote: one for the Mayor, one for the London-wide Assembly Members and one for the Constituency Assembly Members.  

 

18 political parties are standing to win the 11 London-wide London Assembly seats.

 

Fourteen London Assembly Members are also elected to represent London’s 14 Assembly Constituencies.  There are 78 Constituency candidates – so 249 London Assembly candidates in total.

 

Nominations for the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections closed at 4pm on Tuesday 30 March. The Greater London Returning Officer is required by law to publish the list by 4pm on Thursday 1 April.

 

London Elects will send an information booklet to each of London’s 6 million registered voters. This will begin arriving in letterboxes from next week and includes a ‘mini manifesto’ from 17 of the Mayoral candidates, the full list of Assembly candidates and information about how to vote. 

 Important dates:  These dates apply to both the Mayor and the London Assembly.

 

Polling station voting:                    Thursday 6 May (polling stations open from 7am to 10pm)

Count commences:                         Friday 7 May (9am) and continues Saturday 8 May (8am)

 

If you are registered to vote, you should have received your poll card already.

 

The last day to register to vote in the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections is 19 April 2021.

 

To vote by post, electors need to register as a postal voter by 5pm Tuesday 20^th April.

 

For more information, please contact the London Elects media office.

 

London Elects Head of Media:

 

Alison Bell - 07887 832 918 or 020 7983 4228 – City Hall

media@londonelects.org.uk

 

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