London Assembly

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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.

1 Makeup
- 1.1 Constituency Members
- 1.2 London-wide Members
2 See also
3 External links

Makeup

There are 14 constituencies, each with one member, and then a further 11 members elected from a party list 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
Party	2000	2004	Current Assembly
Conservative	9	9
Labour	9	7
Liberal Democrat	4	5
Green	3	2
One London	0	2

Both One London members were elected on the United Kingdom Independence Party list but defected in February 2005 to the newly-formed Veritas party; from September 2005 they formed their own 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