All the results from Thursday's elections are through, and there is little change from yesterday's post. As expected, Boris Johnson won against Ken Livingstone in London, albeit more narrowly than had been predicted (51.5% to 48.5% when factoring in all the first and second-place preference votes), Jenny Jones from the Green Party managed to pull off a third-place finish ahead of Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrat candidate in the London race; Labour won a slightly higher amount of council seats, and Leeds joined eight other cities in opposing a directly-elected mayor system.
That is the last post on British elections for now; the next major set of votes will be the 2013 locals, although a couple of parliamentary constituencies could have by-elections if there are any MP departures from now until then.
I'm not up on politics, but I enjoy reading. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm still learning British ones myself. :)
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