Neil Reddin ... No G (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am indebted to Croydonian for alerting me earlier this week to the release of the London election results broken down by ward*. Enjoy! (Health warning for LibDems: You won't enjoy this. As you'll see further below, if these results were repeated in the 2010 council elections, you would end up with fewer councillors than the [...]
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
We take no credit for the following excelent and informative number crunching, which was done by Prinkipo Exile in a debate over at Liam's blog. The detailed ward level results for City and East constituency in the London assembly elections give the following votes for Hanif Abdulmuhit, the Respect candidate. Respect won two wards outright - [...]
The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I promise this is my last post on the London elections - I mean, that's all so last week. Just a few loose ends to tie up, namely the ward breakdowns and Suz had a question about spoiled papers that I haven't yet answered. I'm not going to do a breakdown of every ward in London - so if you've specific desires I suggest you check out the stats at London elects , I'm only going to...
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
London Elects has today published the ward-by-ward detail of the Mayoral election results - a must read for electoral train-spotters/borough or constituency campaign strategists: Barnet and Camden Bexley and Bromley Brent and Harrow City and East (containing boroughs: Barking & Dagenham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, City of London) Croydon and Sutton Ealing and Hillingdon Enfield and Haringey Greenwich and...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... technologies to monitor people's health.The pilot scheme will cover Kent, Cornwall and Newham in London, where people with conditions such as diabetes, heart and chest problems, as well as the elderly and the frail, will use the technology. Mr Johnson said: "Society is going through huge change - care and support must adapt to meet the challenges this will bring because the current...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Well, even a stopped clock is right two times a day and so it is that I find myself rather agreeing with the BNP's recently elected to the London Assembly Richard Barnbrook who says that he will press for the Union Flag to be flown permanently over City Hall, for burkas to be banned from public buildings and for official celebrations to mark St George's Day. He will resist the planned construction...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
New London mayor appoints deputy mayor for young people, a former prison governor who heads an academy that aims to turn round the lives of boys headed down the "wrong path"
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The mainstream party candidates walked off the stage when Richard Barnbrook stepped up to speak after becoming, early on Saturday morning, the first member of the British National Party to win a seat on the London Assembly. Mr Barnbrook was unpeturbed.
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
These are the people who have been elected to the Greater London Assembly, with the areas they represent and their votes and percentages of the poll.
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Was the postal vote battle the real decider? This table appears in the Evening Standard tonight and shows the number of postal votes issue in all but three of London's boroughs. The total is 559,892 and I’ve just been doing some quick calculations to compare the number with a selection of the number of votes cast [...]
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Several terrorist have emerged from this Islamic group - all the same they are applying for permission to construct a mega-mosque in London's east end. And it seems that it is not PC to state this - during a run for the mayoral elections. Here are some of the things these mega-mosque dreamers are saying ""he hopes the mosque will “rescue the ummah [Muslim community] from the culture and civilisation...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
A High Court judge will today decide whether the BBC politically censored a London mayoral candidates party election broadcast just one day before polling booths open
Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
(April 30, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The LTTE frontline activists are putting all their energy into campaigning for present Mayor Ken Livingstone to be elected as Mayor again. The campaign spearheaded by Councillor Daya Idaikadar who is the brother in law of LTTE’s legal representative Visvanathan Rudrakumar held a special campaign meeting in Harrow and pooja service at Shree Kanagathurgai...
Make My Vote Count (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
... close contest they will engage in the electoral process enthusiastically." "Reaching the parts of London other elections don't reach: this election has had to be fought London-wide. It has been a genuine 32-borough contest with Labour campaigning in every constituency and ever borough, engaging with voters not just in parliamentary marginals but in our own safe seats and opposition...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
That is 14.4 per cent of the total, which is up from 13.5 per cent last year and almost double the 7.8 per cent when Labour came to power in 1997.In 15 of the 150 local education authorities, more than half of primary pupils have English as a second language – including 77 per cent in Tower Hamlets and 72.6 per cent in Newham, both in London. The only area outside the capital with more...
