London Mayoral Election 2012

[minionofmidas]

There's a reason she lost to Galloway, you know. The woman is fairly unelectable.

[minionofmidas]

Bumped after more than 180 days. There are boards where moderators might be inclined to infract.

[minionofmidas]

Is it too late to find some way of replacing Livingstone with Lammy? Not that I have much trust in ComRes or even really in polls of London elections, but if over 10% of 2010 Labour voters are thinking about voting for Johnson... er... no, that is not good.

Livingstone will be like Mitterand in reverse.

In what sense exactly?

[minionofmidas]

If that was the main alternative, it's highly understandable that Livingstone ran again and was nominated.

[minionofmidas]

Some people want to enlarge that way-too-built-in monster of an airport? Urgh. Kudos to Johnson, I suppose. (wikis) And to Cameron. I feel dirty.

[minionofmidas]

Carlos Cortiglia - British National Party

Eh, what ?

An Uruguayan who volunteered to fight for Argentina against the British scum during the Malvinas War.

[minionofmidas]

That London Elects website is pretty useless. Bar charts and nothing else except for the declared races? Seriously? I hope those responsible will be hanged from London Bridge. By their toes, nonfatally.
Looked like what's very much too close to call is whether Johnson gets it on the first ballot, though, though it's tough to be sure with a bar chart. Not a load still missing apparently.
The amount of ticket splitting looks like he'll have a majority against him on the assembly.

[minionofmidas]

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.

[minionofmidas]

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.

[minionofmidas]

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?

[minionofmidas]

a small group

George Strauss and Sir Stafford Cripps make a "group"? (No, I suppose there were more. )

[minionofmidas]

Rotherhithe is that gentrified? The horror.