On May 3rd Londoners will have the chance to elect a Mayor and 25 members of the London Assembly but to have a say on the capital’s next four years, Londoners must register to vote by 18th April 2012 The Electoral Commission has released this video as part of its voter sign-up campaign. Find out […]
2012 London Elections
News and coverage of the 2012 elections for Mayor of London and the London Assembly (The Greater London Authority).
Election deposits force candidates to face reality
The following article defending the requirement for Mayoral candidates to pay a £10,000 deposit appears in Time Out as one side of their Face Off column. The full column contains an opposing view. Pop along to your news agent for a copy of this week’s edition. To run as Mayor the rules require each candidate […]
Labour complain after Boris campaign takes control of Mayor’s twitter account
The Labour party have complained to City Hall’s monitoring officers after Boris Johnson converted the official Mayor of London twitter account into a personal account, complete with link to his campaign website. On Tuesday Johnson, or someone acting on his behalf, tweeted: “Day 1 of official election period! No City Hall resources in use, so […]
Boris pulls ahead in new YouGov poll
After three polls suggesting just 2% separated Mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone, a new YouGov poll shows Johnson leading by 8%. In January 2 polls put Livingstone ahead by 2%, reversing Johnson’s 8% lead. Last month A YouGov poll reversed the position, putting Johnson ahead by the same margin. When asked to choose […]
The adventures of Mr Mayor…
As previously lamented, Ken and Boris are doing their best to make this the nastiest and most personal Mayoral contest to date. So to inject a little fun into this first official day of the election, I though I’d dust off this image first drawn for the 2008 contest: You can following our ongoing election […]
