So, it looks like Boris is going to win.....

[JeremyVile]

Boris Johnson.
How the feck did that happen??

Hoping the BBC are just joshing with us...

Fraid so pooka. Whoever came up with that has clearly never spent quality time in Sidcup High St.
But I do love the fantastic open spaces across outer SE London (was also brought up here like you)

HURRAH for City and the East. (Not really a surprise, but I'm still glad I live here and can look people in the eye as I walk down the street)

Labour hold

John Biggs (Lab) 63,635 (34.69%, +5.59%)
Phil Briscoe (C) 32,082 (17.49%, -0.65%)
Hanif Abdulmuhit (Respect GG) 26,760 (14.59%)
Robert Bailey (BNP) 18,020 (9.82%)
Rajonuddin Jalal (LD) 13,724 (7.48%, -6.46%)
Heather Finlay (Green) 11,478 (6.26%, -0.38%)
Tom Conquest (CPA) 7,306 (3.98%, +0.57%)
Mick McGough (UKIP) 3,078 (1.68%, -12.07%)
Graham Kemp (NF) 2,350 (1.28%)
Michael Gavan (Left List) 2,274 (1.24%)
John Griffiths (Eng Dem) 2,048 (1.12%)
Julie Crawford (Ind) 701 (0.38%)
Lab maj 31,553 (17.20%)
3.12% swing C to Lab
Electorate 470,863; Turnout 183,456 (38.96%, +9.03%)

Why don't you all come and live in deep-blue Surrey with me. I voted Labour last night while on some mad nostalgia trip. My ballot paper probably finished off at least two of the elderly, blazered tellers.

London results

so Ken wins 1 tpref

NE, City and East, Brent and Harrow

Boris 1st pref in

bexley and Bromley
havering and redbridge

though that's a lot of George Galloway and BNP votes on closer inspection

Can I ask a shamefully basic question: is the mayoral vote going by constituency, or just plain old London-wide, vote-by-vote?

Perhaps Boris will bring back Middlesex?

Nope. Clean and green. Sounds a bit like betty ford's clean and serene.

We had to vote for the Mayor on one ballot paper and on another for the Assembly Members.

What is the appeal to anyone of George Galloway? Can someone explain? I know I live a rarefied life but in what world does a person think that man is suitable to be in power?

I see North East a Labour hold. Sigh. And I was votes for the only candidate who lost votes on last time (this is about par for the course). She did have mad hair

was votes? voted

Boris will probably bring back Ruritania.

nkf: the Galloway Love Bus passed our office the other day - glaring music, chap with megaphone - thunderstorm started and we were going misty eyed with the thought of a well-timed bolt of lightning

no policy, we voted for the Mayor direct, plus also named London Assembly representative for our patch (am still reeling at news that the National Front came fourth in B & B ), plus generic party vote for the PR element of the London Assembly

it's vote by vote but they are reporting the results by constituency I think

they had the total votes up (boris was ahead) but they took them off pretty quickly

one of the Ken problems is that the Tory strongholds normally have a greater turnout than the labour ones

Love the sarcky 'Bromley clean and green' -Does anyone know the catchphrase/motto for lambeth where I currently reside. Maybe Boris will rewrite them all in his lovely latin once he is settled in the throne

But if BJ has 1st pref in 8 constituencies and KL has six, and there's still a fifth of the vote to come in, doens't taht mean it's still pretty close?

clutches at straws in lieu of being able to have a large G&T

Lambeth - Cor, what a shit hole?

Or Brent - Guns and Posers?

I'd hazard a guess that if he does rewrite your motto it may translate loosely as "Into the dust, proletarian rabble"

at the moment, Boris has 45%, ken has 41%

Oh my god! The NF got more than 5% of votes in B&B. That is APPALLING.

Where are the Mayoral results coming from?