please empty your brain below
Thank you for this - the BBC and most other news sources seem to have ignored London apart from the mayoralty.

Timbo | 05.05.24 - 7:16 a.m. | #

I hope Labour bring back the single transferable vote when they are in government (they won’t, first-past-the-post seems to have disadvantaged the Tories - hah!).

I always enjoyed being able to vote the the candidate I liked the best first, before voting for the most pragmatic candidate second, in the knowledge that my vote for a minor party wasn’t wasted.

Dan | 05.05.24 - 7:39 a.m. | #

Lots of salty people in Bexley today.

Kathryn | 05.05.24 - 7:47 a.m. | #

At last proper coverage, thank you.

Why was the turnout not mentioned by the BBC including their Website?

dg writes: it was

Colin Whiting | 05.05.24 - 7:58 a.m. | #

Binface beating Britain First - down with fascism, up with ceefax

TomH | 05.05.24 - 8:14 a.m. | #

If everyone below Zoe except the Count had transferred their votes to Hall, she still wouldn't have won.

toby | 05.05.24 - 8:31 a.m. | #

“Couldn’t be arsed . . . 59%” 🙄

Lorenzo | 05.05.24 - 8:40 a.m. | #

Thank you. It’s been very hard to follow assembly results until now.

Dave Jones | 05.05.24 - 8:42 a.m. | #

Assembly results are readily scrutinised on the London Elects website.

(and individual constituency figures here)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.05.24 - 8:45 a.m. | #

The Tories gambled on anti-ULEZ being a vote winner after Uxbridge, turns out ULEZ probably gave Khan votes.

The BBC covered the assembly pretty well actually, they had updates on the live blog and a results page too.

TW | 05.05.24 - 9:08 a.m. | #

59% think it's all bolx.

Still Anon | 05.05.24 - 9:09 a.m. | #

I think the most interesting figure is the number of ineligible ballots. Might this be because with fptp, there's a lot more leeway to interpret any mark as a vote.

Ian | 05.05.24 - 9:34 a.m. | #

Ian, it’s because tens of thousands of people didn’t understand how a single transferable vote works.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.05.24 - 9:36 a.m. | #

Definitely notable that so many people didn't seem to understand the old transferable vote system.
I've looked online but can't yet see any data on numbers of people turned away for having no ID.

Will | 05.05.24 - 9:53 a.m. | #

I love the fact that despite the genuine real anger against ULEZ present in Bromley the percentage share of the vote for Conservative and Labour in Bexley and Bromley is identical to last time (to the nearest 0.1%).

I get the impression a vociferous (and more) small minority hate ULEZ, a lot more dislike it but it is not a major issue, loads of people couldn't care less and a significant number think it is a good idea but don't want to speak out their support.

Pedantic of Purley | 05.05.24 - 10:05 a.m. | #

Interesting how the Assembly Member and general Assembly votes in Ealing and Hillingdon were both for Labour but against Khan. Unlikely to be an anti-Muslim thing. Maybe some anti-ULEZ thing from the Hillingdon end.

dg writes: it’s not new, it also happened in 2021.

ActonMan | 05.05.24 - 11:05 a.m. | #

I'm never sure whether to be impressed that so many independents are willing to stand, knowing they'll probably lose their £10k deposit, or think they're mad!
Keeps things interesting I suppose, and quirkily British!

Cornish Cockney | 05.05.24 - 11:14 a.m. | #

Boris turned up to vote with no identification!

Nick | 05.05.24 - 11:23 a.m. | #

After the 2021 election, the Electoral Commission wrote "The number of rejected ballot papers for the Mayor of London election was notably higher than it had been at previous elections or at other elections held using SV (supplementary vote) in May 2021 ..." So there was a London problem.
They suggest that it was maybe because of the ballot paper format required for electronic counting.
Also in 2021, voting using different systems, while in 2024 it was one X per paper.
So many other countries use more complex systems than FPTP, I wonder what their rejection rates are?

Tony Woolf | 05.05.24 - 11:27 a.m. | #

Nick - Entirely deliberately, I’m sure. A very good way to get his name in the headlines, I think.

Thanks for laying everything out so clearly!

M | 05.05.24 - 11:28 a.m. | #

ActonMan: There are a lot of Sikhs in Ealing (and a lot of Hindus in Brent and Harrow).

Sprout Eater | 05.05.24 - 11:36 a.m. | #

How did the South West end up as both most Libdemmy and most Binfacey?

Louise | 05.05.24 - 11:55 a.m. | #

In 2021 Khan was behind on the first preference votes in Ealing and Hillingdon, but won when the second preferences were included. Some sites are misleadingly comparing now with 2021’s first vote and flagging E&H as ‘Conservative hold’. Removing the second preference option this year might explain Khan’s poorer result here, which I assume was the intention, but which didn’t stop him winning overall.

ActonMan | 05.05.24 - 12:19 p.m. | #

I wonder how many voters don't like ULEZ, but have (maybe begrudgingly) changed their car, so removing the outer suburban extension wouldn't now help them. As an aside, Hall only pledged to remove last year's extension of ULEZ into the outer suburbs, she didn't appear interested in removing it from the areas within the North and South Circular Roads.

Malc M | 05.05.24 - 2:49 p.m. | #

She also didn't seem very interested in campaigning in Inner London. Only got a single leaflet from her, and no door-knockers (something which Labour and the LibDems bothered with). Bit appalling really for the 'natural party of government'.

They'd lost the race the second they'd completed the shortlist. But then again, losing was likely the plan all along. London is always a good scapegoat and great for them to point out Labour's 'failings'.

As an aside, Brian Rose must've had the worst social media ads to votes ratio out there no?

matthieu1221 | 05.05.24 - 3:00 p.m. | #

Shouldn't that be "Foxed - Laurence"

Timbo | 05.05.24 - 3:31 p.m. | #

Presumably the Hall campaign realised inner London was a lost cause, hence they concentrated efforts on the OLBs, a strategy that had worked so well for Johnson. The results map shows that investing in the doughnut effect was a viable gamble and Bexley & Bromley voters were, predictably, far and away the biggest Hall supporters, but the bite taken out by the LDs in the southwest won’t have helped her, and it’s not a complete ring of Hallies around the outside.

Labourer | 05.05.24 - 4:11 p.m. | #

Wasn't ULEZ in Inner London part of the conditions imposed by the Conservative Government as one of the conditions of the TfL settlement during Covid? Although Sadiq did seem quite keen on the idea anyway.

dg writes: no

So, Susan Hall cancelling ULEZ in Inner London would go against Tory policy. Even Boris had no objection to extending it to Inner London - even though some of his objections to extending it to Outer London would apply equally to Inner London.

Anyway, the strategy, such as it was, of Susan Hall was to oppose anything that could be pinned on Sadiq. Inner London ULEZ didn't quite fulfil this and awkward questions could have been asked.

Pedantic of Purley | 05.05.24 - 6:48 p.m. | #

Re spoilt papers elsewhere, Sweden’s general election in 2022 had 6,477,970 valid votes, 6,998 invalid votes, 62,833 blank votes. They use open list PR, which sounds at least as complicated as STV to me.

miker | 05.05.24 - 7:52 p.m. | #

Will the Tories finally run a positive campaign next time or will they and their mouthpieces in the right wing press, GB News and on social media etc spend the next four years continuing to spread fake information that London is an unsafe city? Something tells me they’d do everything they can to replace the London mayoral system.

muser | 05.05.24 - 10:47 p.m. | #

For some reason, the Tories seem to have a visceral hatred of Khan that’s even greater than their dislike of Livingstone was. Perhaps they hate the idea of a working-class man from an Asian background presuming to hold a major political post without having gone to the “right” school and university.

Labourer | 06.05.24 - 11:11 a.m. | #

The obvious Tory tactic is to create expanded London & South East region and mayoralty (thus with an inbuilt Conservative majority) or total abolition of the GLA etc. After all, it worked in 1965 and 1986.

Kim | 06.05.24 - 11:31 a.m. | #

For Fox’ sake! 😂

BW | 06.05.24 - 11:32 a.m. | #

The 59% that couldn't be arsed is a very poor turnout. Whilst I'm against forcing people to vote, people should realise that they are lucky that we have free and fair elections in this country, unlike in some countries.

Whatever people might think of who or what they might be voting for / on, they should at least exercise their right to vote for whoever they want by turning up and voting, even if they just put a random cross somewhere.

Rogmi | 06.05.24 - 11:53 a.m. | #

Miker: The system used in Sweden is probably less complicated than STV, but the whole design of the ballot papers and the way you cast your vote is very different from most other countries, so I think it's hard to compare the number of spoilt ballots there with elections anywhere else.

(I'm half Swedish, but also been an international election observer in Sweden)

Anders | 06.05.24 - 12:07 p.m. | #











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