#VoteBike - 2012 London Mayoral elections

and Paddick 4th in Lewisham by only 232 votes from 5th place.

Where did he come in I'm a celebrity?

According to LBC Ken is ahead on 2nd round votes in some areas of the tory belt he targeted. A power cut has delayed counting in north london too, so it may change a lot. Although the presenter called Boris Brian throughout that bit

Looks tighter than initially thought
2nd prefs may feature
Too close to call
exciting

Cool! Can we have a hung mayoralty?

^ I'm in favour of the disclosure of candidates tax affairs, but asking them to show us their other 'assets' would be taking transparency a bit too far...

Ken has had his on show for weeks now anyway.

Cameron would be soooo bleak if the tories lost London as well. Fingers crossed.

yes that would be devastating for the tories
Here's hoping

Sadly, if you look at the Assembly votes compared to the Mayor votes, Livingstone has lost this for Labour.

Probably cliveo though the inner London votes are not yet in and he probably has more support there

According to LBC Ken is ahead on 2nd round votes in some areas of the tory belt he targeted. A power cut has delayed counting in north london too, so it may change a lot. Although the presenter called Boris Brian throughout that bit

Well, he's not the messiah, he's just a very naughty boy.

Probably cliveo though the inner London votes are not yet in and he probably has more support there

Yep, far too early to call. As neu just said you need to consider second preference votes too. It's likely to be very close.

Wow.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/mayor/tory-brian-coleman-loses-seat-to-labour-7715596.html

Just wow.

Amazing. Could revolutionise cycling in Barnet?

11pm and still 1 area to declare. So far Boris is on 44.26% of first preferences. Ken is 4.38% behind with 39.88%. Jenny, Brian and Siobhan have 4.56%, 4.17% and 3.82%. With the undeclared area in the Labourish north and up to 15% of second preferences to be shared out, it could go either way.

:(

Boris wins...

Jenny 3rd. What if we'd voted Ken then Jen?

then your 2nd preference wouldn't have counted and Jenny Jones may not have come 3rd.

One of my flatmates voted for Boris. She's so stupid she puts food in the recycling.

Second preferences have just the same weight as first preferences, the only difference is you have to trust other people to get your 2nd preference into the final 2 with their first preferences for your 2nd to count.

As I said, Livingstone lost it.

Johnson's victory with 50% of the vote represents the support of fewer than 20% of registered voters. One wonders what per cent age of eligible voters are registered. Johnson hardly has a mandate and certainly does not have popular support.

Livingstone lost it.

Second preferences have just the same weight as first preferences, the only difference is you have to trust other people to get your 2nd preference into the final 2 with their first preferences for your 2nd to count.

2nd preferences only have the same weight if your first choice isn't in the top 2.

My response was explaining what would have happened if the people who voted Green 1st pref and Ken 2nd did so the other way around. As I said, in that case, all of those green 2nd preferences would have counted for nothing.

Green coming 3rd counts for nothing.