Caroline Pidgeon

Caroline Valerie Pidgeon (born 29 September 1972) is a Liberal Democrat politician. Since the 2016 Assembly election she has been the only member of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly.

Born in Southampton, Pidgeon was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She graduated in 1994 and moved to London.

In 1998 she was elected as a member of Southwark London Borough Council to represent Newington Ward. She held the seat until 2010.

At the 2008 London Assembly elections she won a seat as a "London-wide" member under the top-up party list system, and became leader of the three-strong Liberal Democrat group. She held her seat in 2012 and remained leader of the party group, reduced to two seats. In 2012 she stood for election as Mayor of London, seeing her party's share of the vote collapse. She came fourth, behind Labour, the Conservatives and the Green Party. She retained her seat as a London-wide member, becoming the only party member on the assembly.

She has contested one parliamentary election, standing at Vauxhall in 2010.