London Mayor (1st preference)
London Assembly
Labour: 12
Conservative: 9
Liberal Democrat: 2
Green: 2
It was a mixed result in London for both Labour and the Conservatives, Boris narrowly beat Ken to be London's mayor. This result will help to ease the painful night the conservatives had on Thursday. Despite Boris' success, the Conservatives went from being the biggest party in the London Assembly to second, losing two seats to Labour. Labour now is just one seat shy of a majority in the assembly, meaning that they only need one vote from the other parties to block bills proposed by Boris or to push through their own.
It was a good night for the Greens, they became the third largest party in London, Jenny Jones, the Green candidate received 7,139 votes more than Brian Paddick, the Lib Dem candidate. As well as this the Greens have two seats in the Assembly, tied with the Liberal Democrats.
It was an excellent night for the independent Siobhan Benita, who came from nowhere to take 83,914 votes, more than UKIP and the BNP combined! For someone who nobody knew about before this election and with very little TV appearances this is very impressive. After the results came in Ms Benita said that this would not be the last we see of her and she will continue to play a part in the capital's politics.
Boris Johnson (Conservative): 971,931 (44.01%)
Ken Livingstone (Labour): 889,918 (40.30%)
Jenny Jones (Green): 98,913
(4.48%)
Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat): 91,774 (4.16%)
Siobhan Benita (Independent): 83,914 (3.80%)
Lawrence Webb (UKIP): 43,274 (1.96%)
Carlos Cortiglia (BNP): 28,751
(1.30%)
(+2nd preference)
Boris: 1,054,881 (51.53%)
Ken: 992,273 (48.47%)
London Assembly
Labour: 12
Conservative: 9
Liberal Democrat: 2
Green: 2
It was a mixed result in London for both Labour and the Conservatives, Boris narrowly beat Ken to be London's mayor. This result will help to ease the painful night the conservatives had on Thursday. Despite Boris' success, the Conservatives went from being the biggest party in the London Assembly to second, losing two seats to Labour. Labour now is just one seat shy of a majority in the assembly, meaning that they only need one vote from the other parties to block bills proposed by Boris or to push through their own.
It was a good night for the Greens, they became the third largest party in London, Jenny Jones, the Green candidate received 7,139 votes more than Brian Paddick, the Lib Dem candidate. As well as this the Greens have two seats in the Assembly, tied with the Liberal Democrats.
It was an excellent night for the independent Siobhan Benita, who came from nowhere to take 83,914 votes, more than UKIP and the BNP combined! For someone who nobody knew about before this election and with very little TV appearances this is very impressive. After the results came in Ms Benita said that this would not be the last we see of her and she will continue to play a part in the capital's politics.
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