London Mayoral Election 2012

[joevsimp]

so the same, uninspiring big thee as last time, Can Paddo still keep it up into third place though?

[joevsimp]

so the same, uninspiring big thee as last time, Can Paddo still keep it up into third place though?

He'll struggle...

yes, but Opik would've struggled to manage fourth.

Speaking of which, Jenny Jones AM is the Green nominee, Barnbrook has been kicked out of the bnp, but any news on their candidate or others further down the list?

[joevsimp]

Labour have come very close to gaining Havering & Redbridge on the GLA which is... er... a surprise.

didn't think it was going to be that close, I know its not 1997, but Labour had overall control of the borough and all three MPs then

looks like Labour are going to end up with the most seats, a back of the envelope job I did earlier said UKIP1, LD1, GRN2, CON8, Lab10

[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

[joevsimp]

Wonder who'll run for Labour in 2016...

Some people are seriously suggesting that it should be Alan Sugar....

I can't think of anyone really, some said Alan Johnson should've gone for it this time, some people will inevitably start throwing Chukka Umana's name about, but I think he's after bigger fish.

Claude Moraes MEP is a name that comes up now and then, but hes a bit of an unknown

[joevsimp]

interesting that none of the smaller parties won a ward this time round