The British National Party has won its first ever seat on the London Assembly.

The far-right nationalist party secured more than the five per cent minimum threshold required to earn a representative in City Hall.

Its mayoral candidate Richard Barnbrook therefore won a proportional top-up seat in the capital-wide ballot.

In the first-past-the-post section of the ballot, the Conservatives won in eight out of 14 constituencies and Labour in six.

The Tories also won three top-up seats, giving them two gains overall and cementing their place as the largest party on the scrutiny body.

The results should also mean that new Conservative mayor Boris Johnson is able to pass his annual budget in the Assembly without difficulty.

Labour made one gain overall to finish with eight seats, a minor consolation for the party having lost Ken Livingstone as mayor.

The Liberal Democrats lost two top-up seats, with their Assembly representation falling from five to three members.

The One London group lost both of its two representatives.

However the Greens held on to both of their seats, making up the final two places on the 25-member Assembly.