Deputy mayor of london

Felicia Nicolette C. Gavron is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London to Ken Livingstone from to and to She was a member of the London Assembly from to and was the former Labour candidate for the Mayor of London elections. She was a member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark between May and May , when she voluntarily stood down.

Sir Lynton Keith Crosby is an Australian political strategist who has managed election campaigns for right-of-centre parties in several countries. Silvertown Tunnel is a road tunnel under construction beneath the River Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and west Silvertown. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson defeated incumbent Labour Ken Livingstone It was the third London mayoral election, the previous elections being the first election in May and the second election in June An election to the Assembly of London took place on 1 May , along with the London mayoral election.

The London mayoral election was an election held on Thursday 3 May , to elect the Mayor of London. It was held on the same day as the London Assembly election, and used a supplementary vote system.

The London mayoral election for the office of Mayor of London takes place every four years. The first election was held in May , and five subsequent elections have taken place. The latest mayoral election took place in , it was initially going to be held in but was postponed a year due to the COVID pandemic.

The first election for this position occurred on 21 October , taking on the executive function of the borough council. The position is different from the previous largely ceremonial, annually appointed mayors of Tower Hamlets, who became known as the 'Chair of Council' after the first election and are now known as the 'Speaker of Council'.

The second election was held on 22 May , the same day as the Tower Hamlets Council election, other United Kingdom local elections, and European Parliament elections, but the election result was declared void by the election court. A by-election was held on 11 June The London mayoral election was held on 5 May to elect the Mayor of London, on the same day as the London Assembly election.

It was the fifth election to the position of mayor, which was created in after a referendum in London. The election used a supplementary vote system.

A member of the Conservative Party, she served as the Member of Parliament for Kensington from to , losing her seat and becoming the first sitting MP for Kensington to lose the seat to an opposition candidate. The London Labour Party mayoral selection of was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London, to stand in the mayoral election on 5 May It was the first Mayoral selection process since not to feature Ken Livingstone as a candidate.

The Tooting by-election was a by-election in the constituency of Tooting on 16 June , triggered by the resignation of Sadiq Khan from Parliament following his election as Mayor of London. The Richmond Park by-election was a UK parliamentary by-election in the constituency of Richmond Park which was held on 1 December It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative Member of Parliament Zac Goldsmith on 25 October over the Government's proposal for a third runway at the nearby Heathrow Airport.

It was won by Sarah Olney of the Liberal Democrats, after a campaign focused on opposition to Brexit. The London Labour Party mayoral selection of was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London, to stand in the mayoral election.

Ken Livingstone, the incumbent Mayor of London, was selected to stand after Labour's previous candidate, Nicky Gavron, stood aside. Executive officer within the Greater London Authority. Politics of London. Greater London Authority. London Councils. London in the UK. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July BBC News. Liberal Democrats. Our job is to keep an eye on him — and that is better done from an independent position. It would have been nice — but just not practicable. London Assembly.

Archived from the original on 22 October Archived from the original on 12 May Retrieved 6 May Archived from the original on 6 June Deputy Mayors of London. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses. The London mayoral election was won by Ken Livingstone , who ran as an independent after being expelled from the Labour Party. He announced that he would rotate the position of deputy mayor equally between the four parties represented in the London Assembly London Labour , London Conservatives , London Liberal Democrats and the London Green Party.

After some political manoeuvring, she accepted. However, in , Ken Livingstone decided not to offer the role to the Conservatives, claiming it would be disruptive, [2] so Nicky Gavron retained the post. In the Liberal Democrats were asked to nominate a candidate but declined, saying that it would be better to scrutinise the mayor from an independent position.

In , the Greens accepted an offer to nominate a deputy mayor and selected Jenny Jones , who became London's second deputy mayor. Nicky Gavron was originally chosen as the Labour candidate for the London mayoral election but she stepped aside when Ken Livingstone was invited to rejoin the party. They then ran on a joint ticket as Labour's candidates for the posts of mayor and deputy mayor. She served as Ken Livingstone's deputy for the duration of his second term.

In his first term, Ken Livingstone came under fire for delegating his powers to his chief of staff, Simon Fletcher, rather than the deputy mayor on several occasions. After Boris Johnson became Mayor of London in May , he appointed Richard Barnes [6] as his statutory Deputy Mayor, with the specific responsibility for community cohesion and regeneration.

In May , Sir Edward Lister was then appointed as his successor. Victoria Borwick succeeded him in the post. Copyright The image is from Wikipedia Commons. Wikipedia Page. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July BBC News. Liberal Democrats. Our job is to keep an eye on him — and that is better done from an independent position. It would have been nice — but just not practicable. London Assembly. Archived from the original on 22 October