[Tubby Isaacs]

Is it just City and East to come? Very large Labour majority coming there.

[Tubby Isaacs]

1st and 2nd prefs combined

39k majority for Khan in Enfield and Haringey
47k in Greenwich and Lewisham
27k in Merton and Wandsworth
4k in South West
18k for Bailey in Croydon and Sutton

[Tubby Isaacs]

My impression is that Bailey's doing a bit better than Goldsmith, though it's hard to tell.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Newham and Tower Hamlets are keeping their directly elected mayors.

Has a corner been turned on those? Are they getting more popular? Not a particularly big fan of them at LA level but I'll go with the flow.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Regional mayors less so. Then again you can't attack Andy Street for crime in the West Midlands because he's not responsible for that.

[davidjay]

This is very prescient.

You could also add oop Northerners who go down for the day and are gobsmacked at the price of houses and beer.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh great.

[Samanfur]

The Guardian is reporting that there'll be a results announcement at 10pm.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That would be very welcome.

I haven't forgotten the Tower Hamlets clownery from 2014 that seemed to last about a week.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Decent swing to Bailey compared with last time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[mattomac]

Khan is lower but Bailey is also lower than Goldsmith.

Frankly for all the bravado and closeness that’s been talked off since that tweet, he is still a very distant second.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I didn't take that seriously. Surprised Bailey did as well as he did.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Malcolm Armsteen]

London reelects Sadiq Khan for mayor

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has been reelected as London mayor following the counting of second preference votes.

Khan will serve a second term after winning a total of 1,206,034 votes, while the Conservative candidate, Shaun Bailey, came second with 977,601.

Although Khan was expected to secure a second term, Bailey has performed better than expected, closing in on Labour with 35.3% of the first preference vote while incumbent Khan got 40%.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has been reelected as London mayor following the counting of second preference votes.

Khan will serve a second term after winning a total of 1,206,034 votes, while the Conservative candidate, Shaun Bailey, came second with 977,601.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Khan down on 97k on last time, Bailey down 16k on Goldsmith.

Much better for Bailey than expected really. The Tories didn't even really bother to back him. Plus he was not very good.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

But he wasn't a Muslim in a time of unchallenged racism.