London Mayoral Election 2012

[You kip if you want to...]

Use electronic counting machines, they said.

It'll make it quicker, they said.

[Meeker]

I mean, this still is probably a whole lot quicker than a hand count.

[You kip if you want to...]

Adam Boulton: "It's more like David Brent than anything in Brent and Harrow."

Just remembered why I hate Sky News.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

The boxes are now all counted.  All 14 GLA constituencies declared, Mayoral result shortly (for some value of shortly).

[Insula Dei]

The boxes are now all counted.  All 14 GLA constituencies declared, Mayoral result shortly (for some value of shortly).

Just how difficult could a Lab-Grn majority in the GLA hypothetically make Boris' life? I understand it takes a 2/3rds majority (!) to block a mayor's budget?

[I left.]

Use electronic counting machines, they said.

It'll make it quicker, they said.

Yeah, I've never understood that either. Can't be that difficult to just count the damn things normally...

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Use electronic counting machines, they said.

It'll make it quicker, they said.

Yeah, I've never understood that either. Can't be that difficult to just count the damn things normally...

Never underestimate the ability of London to mess up a count.

[You kip if you want to...]

The bad thing for the government is that the narrative's alright set and London won't change it now. In the end, if Thursday had been a General Election, Ed Miliband would already be Prime Minister. I wonder who would've put money on results like these, just two years after the party's second worst result since the war...

[Sibboleth]

Might have done if I gambled, but I don't.

[You kip if you want to...]

Press Association: Sources say Boris has been re-elected. Shock, horror.

[Insula Dei]

Boris Johnson - 1,054,811

Ken Livingstone - 992,273


Ah, it'd have been too nice,...

[Meeker]

Final result 51.5 to 48.5

[You kip if you want to...]

Boris did not just do the May the 4th result. Christ.

[You kip if you want to...]

Ken giving a sombre, yet nice speech.

Still, I would've voted for Benita.

[Meeker]

Final London Assembly totals:

Labour: 12
Conservatives: 9
Liberal Democrats: 2
Greens: 2

UKIP (and BNP) shut out

[Simfan34]

This is disconcertingly close, and they lost the Assembly too. But it will not be as close as the French election.

[Vasall des Midas]

First round count is Johnson 44.1, Livingstone 40.3. Livingstone adds second prefs of 29.5% of the first round others, Johnson 23.9 (or 55.3-44.7 of valid second pref.s, not a meaningful number). This gives a final tally of 47.8-44.9 (of people who cast a valid first round vote. 51.6-48.4 of valid second round votes, not a meaningful number either) and Johnson elected without a quota.
Incidentally, though no one has polled a majority on the first round before, this is the first time the winner "needed second preferences", ie his first round tally was less than the runner-up's second round tally.

[Bro-mentum]

So, who would like to be the first to tell everyone what's wrong with the BBC's map of the assembly results?

[Vasall des Midas]

Lack of shading? It's correct as far as its information content goes as far as I can see.

Oh, or maybe you mean the fact that it misleadingly shows the borough lines yet is colored in by constituency.

[Sibboleth]

The level of ticket splitting in Barnet & Camden is pretty hilarious.

[Vasall des Midas]

That's the only place where there's a real difference between the list and direct votes (for Tories and Labour that is.) Andrew Dismore '16?

[Bacon King]

The boxes are now all counted.  All 14 GLA constituencies declared, Mayoral result shortly (for some value of shortly).

Just how difficult could a Lab-Grn majority in the GLA hypothetically make Boris' life? I understand it takes a 2/3rds majority (!) to block a mayor's budget?

It takes a two-thirds majority for them to amend the mayor's budget or any of his statutory provisions. Otherwise, they only have the power to investigate, question, and advise. To get 2/3 Labour and Green would need both Lib Dems and a Conservative defector somehow.

The only thing I can think of that could maybe get the required supermajority would be if Labour decided to push for some sort of local initiative/referendum process- they'd presumably get Lib Dem support and could probably get Andrew Boff to buck his party on the issue.

[Bro-mentum]

Lack of shading? It's correct as far as its information content goes as far as I can see.

Oh, or maybe you mean the fact that it misleadingly shows the borough lines yet is colored in by constituency.

The latter was what I was getting at, I briefly though Labour had won Hillingdon, Harrow and Barnet..

[joevsimp]

I hope they release ward data again this time, last time I created a map, assigning wards based on the total vote by borough and giving smaller parties their best wards, I never uploaded it here though and hard disk failures mean I've lost it

[Sibboleth]

They'll be released in a couple of days, apparently.