2028 London mayoral election
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The 2028 London mayoral election is scheduled to be held in May 2028 to elect the Mayor of London. The election will take place the same day alongside the elections to the London Assembly, as well as local elections across England and Wales. The incumbent Labour Party mayor, Sadiq Khan, won the previous three mayoral elections.
Electoral system
As the law currently stands, the election will use the first past the post system, which was introduced for the 2024 election. 2024 also saw the ballots counted by hand for the first time, after previous mayoral elections had used a technological solution where ballots were scanned. The Greater London Authority are considering returning to a scanning system for 2028.[1]
Candidates
Labour Party
Incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan could run for his fourth term. He has not announced whether he will stand,[2] and is considering running again.[3] However, he is expected to stand down,[4] and in June 2025, the New Statesman reported that Khan had privately indicated he did not wish to stand.[5]
Dawn Butler, the MP for Brent East, said in an interview with The Guardian in 2023 that she would put her name forwards if Khan were not to stand.[6][5]
Other potential candidates include:
- Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Tooting,[2][4][5]
- Mete Coban, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy,[2]
- Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow,[2][4][5]
- Idris Elba, actor and knife crime activist,[4]
- Florence Eshalomi, MP for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green,[2][5]
- Georgia Gould, MP for Queen's Park and Maida Vale and Cabinet Office minister,[2][5]
- Claire Holland, leader of Lambeth Council,[7]
- Lewis Iwu, campaigner and author,[7]
- David Lammy, MP for Tottenham and Foreign Secretary.[2][7]
Conservative Party
Potential candidates include:
- Nickie Aiken, former MP for Cities of London and Westminster,[7]
- James Cleverly, MP for Braintree and former Home Secretary,[7]
- Sebastian Coe, athlete and life peer,[3]
- Justine Greening, former MP for Putney and former Education minister.[7]
- Paul Scully, former MP for Sutton and Cheam and former London minister.[7]
Reform UK
TV presenter and former soldier Ant Middleton has said he wants to run as the Reform UK candidate.[8]
Derek Chisora, a boxer, is also considered a possible candidate for the party.[9]
Other potential candidates
It has been reported that actor James Corden is considering running for mayor. He is thought to be a Labour supporter.[10]
Thomas Skinner, a businessman and TV personality, is a potential candidate and was approached by three political parties, according to the Daily Telegraph.[9]
Opinion polls
| Dates conducted |
Pollster | Client | Sample size |
Lab | Con | LD | Grn | Ref | Others | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr – 21 May 2025 | Savanta[11][a] | QMUL | 1,003 | 35% | 23% | 14% | 11% | 14% | 4% | 12 |
| 4–8 May 2025 | Find Out Now[12][a] | Alex Wilson | 1,102 | 33% | 20% | 10% | 13% | 20% | 4% | 13 |
| 30 Oct – 11 Nov 2024 | Savanta[13][a] | QMUL | 1,004 | 35% | 26% | 11% | 11% | 13% | 4% | 9 |
| 2 May 2024 | 2024 mayoral election | – | 43.8% | 32.7% | 5.8% | 5.8% | 3.1% | 8.7% | 11.1 | |
References
- ^ "London considers return to electronic ballot-counting for mayoral elections". PublicTechnology. 15 November 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Who could be the next London mayor? Labour runners and riders begin to emerge". Sky News. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ a b O'Reilly, Luke; Belger, Tom; Green, Daniel (16 June 2025). "Labour London mayor candidate: Should Khan stand again – and who else might?". LabourList. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d Mata, William (30 March 2025). "Idris Elba 'emerges as Labour's top choice to replace Sadiq Khan as London Mayor'". The Standard. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f Eaton, George (18 June 2025). "The race to succeed Sadiq Khan". New Statesman. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ Mohdin, Aamna (14 August 2023). "Dawn Butler: 'It is shocking, the disrespect for Black women in the Commons'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g Donaldson, Kitty (4 June 2025). "Robert Jenrick's rumoured mayoral ambitions are just a proxy Tory leadership war". The i. Archived from the original on 4 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Ludlow, Mark (24 March 2025). "Ant Middleton banned as company director for failing to pay taxes". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ a b Croft, Ethan (21 June 2025). "Green grocer and former commando hoping to kick Sadiq Khan out of office". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Quadri, Sami (18 May 2025). "James Corden 'considering bid to become Mayor of London'". The Standard. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ "Polling London Data, June 2025 - conducted by Savanta (XLS 930KB)", Table 16, Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, June 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
- ^ "London Polling". Find Out Now, 12 May 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ "Polling London Data, November 2024 - conducted by Savanta (XLS 745KB)", Table 16, Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Dec 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2025.