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« Reply #175 on: May 04, 2012, 04:44:02 PM »

Use electronic counting machines, they said.

It'll make it quicker, they said.
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« Reply #176 on: May 04, 2012, 04:46:58 PM »

I mean, this still is probably a whole lot quicker than a hand count.
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« Reply #177 on: May 04, 2012, 04:50:20 PM »

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

Just remembered why I hate Sky News.
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« Reply #178 on: May 04, 2012, 05:24:07 PM »

The boxes are now all counted.  All 14 GLA constituencies declared, Mayoral result shortly (for some value of shortly).
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« Reply #179 on: May 04, 2012, 05:29:28 PM »

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?
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« Reply #180 on: May 04, 2012, 05:31:03 PM »

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...
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« Reply #181 on: May 04, 2012, 05:40:04 PM »

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.
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« Reply #182 on: May 04, 2012, 05:46:52 PM »

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...
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« Reply #183 on: May 04, 2012, 05:49:30 PM »

Might have done if I gambled, but I don't.
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« Reply #184 on: May 04, 2012, 05:52:46 PM »

Press Association: Sources say Boris has been re-elected. Shock, horror.
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« Reply #185 on: May 04, 2012, 06:00:20 PM »

Boris Johnson - 1,054,811

Ken Livingstone - 992,273


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« Reply #186 on: May 04, 2012, 06:00:43 PM »

Final result 51.5 to 48.5
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« Reply #187 on: May 04, 2012, 06:01:19 PM »

Boris did not just do the May the 4th result. Christ.
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« Reply #188 on: May 04, 2012, 06:06:30 PM »

Ken giving a sombre, yet nice speech.

Still, I would've voted for Benita.
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« Reply #189 on: May 04, 2012, 07:26:35 PM »

Final London Assembly totals:

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

UKIP (and BNP) shut out
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« Reply #190 on: May 04, 2012, 08:58:27 PM »

This is disconcertingly close, and they lost the Assembly too. But it will not be as close as the French election.
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« Reply #191 on: May 05, 2012, 03:40:12 AM »

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.
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« Reply #192 on: May 05, 2012, 05:44:26 AM »



So, who would like to be the first to tell everyone what's wrong with the BBC's map of the assembly results?
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« Reply #193 on: May 05, 2012, 05:50:24 AM »

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.
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« Reply #194 on: May 05, 2012, 06:03:15 AM »

The level of ticket splitting in Barnet & Camden is pretty hilarious.
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« Reply #195 on: May 05, 2012, 06:51:54 AM »

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?
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« Reply #196 on: May 05, 2012, 07:33:16 AM »

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.
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« Reply #197 on: May 05, 2012, 09:15:50 AM »

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..
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« Reply #198 on: May 05, 2012, 11:24:51 AM »

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
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« Reply #199 on: May 05, 2012, 11:30:41 AM »

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