Livingstone re-elected as London Mayor, BNP candidate 6th beats Greens in 7th.

[lovingboth]

He's beaten Norris by 36k votes, after second preferences.

1st Pref

Livingstone (Lab) 34.3%
Norris (Con) 30.5%
Hughes (LibDem)15.1%
Maloney (UK Indep) 6.9%
German (Respect Coalition) 3.8%
Leppert (BNP) 3.5%
Johnson (Green) 2.7%
other three 3.3%

Comments

[a-musing-amazon.livejournal.com]

Your percent look a bit wrong, but the ordering agrees with what I see elsewhere. However its perhaps worth comparing the votes Darren got with those the Greens got in the London Assembly: looks to me like he's now attracting the same sort of personal vote as Tony Blair would.

[lovingboth]

Cut and pasted from the BBC results page.

You know Darren lives near us, don't you?

[a-musing-amazon.livejournal.com]

"Cut and pasted from the BBC results page."

The current figures on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2004/london/html/front.stm are different, but the 1st pref. percentages on that page obviously differ from the votes shown.

Assuming the votes are correct the percentages should have been Livingstone (LAB) 36.8%, Norris (CON) 29.1%, Hughes (LD) 15.3%, Maloney (IKIP) 6.21%, German (Respect) 3.31%, Leppert (BNP) 3.13%, Johnson (GREEN) 3.08%, 3 Others 3.11%.

Seemingly the BBC is not very numerate.

"You know Darren lives near us, don't you?"

No, I didn't.

nitoda has met him though - he was on an election GLBT panel that vampwillow was also on - and she came away unimpressed.

[lovingboth]

It's possible the set I quoted is %age of ballot papers, whereas yours is %age of valid ones.

Yep, Malpas Road. He uses Brockley station for his commute to work.

I was amused the first time when he made a big fuss about being out in the pink press, but didn't think to mention it in his election address.