[4] The Labour Party manifesto prioritised clearing slums and constructing new housing, improving secondary education, and bringing all London transport under municipal control.

It also proposed establishing a municipal bank, municipalising utilities, and paying trade union rates to all council staff and contractors.

[5] Its leader, Herbert Morrison, noted that the party had won 600,000 votes in London at the 1924 UK general election, but only 233,000 at the 1925 London County Council election, and described the party's task as winning over "the Labour voters who did not take the trouble to vote in 1925".

[6] The Times suggested that the party might make gains in Finsbury, and the divisions of Hackney, Islington and St Pancras.

[2] The party's manifesto argued for expanded the area of the council to cover the whole metropolis, base rates on land values, constructing new arterial roads, building wholesale markets, and clearing slums.

This led the CPGB to support twenty "independent labour" candidates, who were widely seen as communists.

[11] Where the party lost seats, this was ascribed to the intervention of the independent labour and communist candidates.