Greater London is divided into fourteen territorial constituencies for London Assembly elections, each returning one member. Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures goals or loyalty The London Assembly is an elected body part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power with a two-thirds The electoral system used is Additional Member System without an overhang and there are, therefore, a fixed number of eleven additional members elected from the London-wide constituency. The Additional Member System (AMS is a branch of Voting systems in which some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under
As of 2007 the fourteen single member constituencies are as follows:
| Constituency |
Boroughs |
1998 electorate |
 |
| 1 |
Barnet and Camden |
Barnet and Camden |
363,027 |
| 2 |
Bexley and Bromley |
Bexley and Bromley |
394,106 |
| 3 |
Brent and Harrow |
Brent and Harrow |
326,254 |
| 4 |
City and East |
Barking and Dagenham, City, Newham, Tower Hamlets |
390,500 |
| 5 |
Croydon and Sutton |
Croydon and Sutton |
358,131 |
| 6 |
Ealing and Hillingdon |
Ealing and Hillingdon |
389,339 |
| 7 |
Enfield and Haringey |
Enfield and Haringey |
348,335 |
| 8 |
Greenwich and Lewisham |
Greenwich and Lewisham |
328,656 |
| 9 |
Havering and Redbridge |
Havering and Redbridge |
355,131 |
| 10 |
Lambeth and Southwark |
Lambeth and Southwark |
331,181 |
| 11 |
Merton and Wandsworth |
Merton and Wandsworth |
358,131 |
| 12 |
North East |
Hackney, Islington, Waltham Forest |
392,722 |
| 13 |
South West |
Hounslow, Kingston, Richmond |
344,001 |
| 14 |
West Central |
Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster |
340,000 |
|
5,044,962 |
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