on Ken winning - london results live

"are we live?"

@ 9.20pm Tessa Jowell says its highly unlikely Ken will be Mayor by the end of the evening.

She sounds and looks wasted/tired.

@ 21.44pm Conservatives retain Bexley and Bromley (my old haunt) with over 50% of the vote, theChristophe is shocked at a candidate winning over 50% of the vote in a FPTP election. Interestingly someone at the BBC has fallen asleep, this result has been known for sometime (declared on Iain Dale and London Elects) but nothing reported on the Beeb

@ 21.50pm Brian Coleman has retained Bexley and Bromley with again over 50% of the vote o.O

@ 21.53pm Navin Shah - Labour candidate wins in Brent and Harrow with about 1.5k majority

@ 21.57pm Jennette Arnold - Labour candidate wins in North East with 28k majority

@ 22.00pm John Biggs - Labour candidate wins in City and East with 31k majority

@ 22.14pm according to Sky News Boris on 520k, Ken on 454k and Brian on 105k on first preference votes

@ 22.46pm Sky says Boris 628k, Ken on 601k still 42% to 40% with Brain on 9% with 141k

@ 22.52pm Sky again says 718k Boris 659k Ken 166k Brian

@ 23.12pm 804k Boris, 709k Ken, 187k Brian on 11 of 14 constituencies declared

@ 23.34pm Results to be declared soon Boris on 963k, Ken on 834k and Brian on 220k or 43%, 37% and 10% after 13 of 14 constituencies declared and based on first preferences

@ 23.39pm Boris on 1.04k, Ken 893k and 236k for Brian on first preferences with all seats declared

@ 23.45pm results on second preferences due any minute!

@ 23.51pm Final results with second preferences Boris on 1,168,738 and Ken on 1,028,966 votes

Boris wins - rather humble speech, lets all hope he's not as bad as we expect

@ 00.27am Stephen O'Connell - Conservative win in Croydon and Sutton constituency

@ 00.36am Tories 8, Labour 6 on constituency Assembly seats - Tories lose one seat in constituencies to Labour but bound to pick it back up in top up seats...

@ 01.30am Top up seats Lib Dems 3, Greens 2, BNP 1, Labour 2 and Conservatives 3 which means final Assembly results Conservatives 11, Labour 8, Lib Dems 3, Greens 2 and BNP 1. Quite a disastrous result for the Lib Dems and the fact that the Tories picked up top up seats even after winning 8 constituency seats shows their support in these elections.

With a Conservative majority on both the Assembly and a new Conservative Mayor, one thing is certain, London's political scene will change considerably over the next 4 years. Interestingly over 320 thousand people had their second preference vote rejected.

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