A new advertising campaign encouraging Londoners to vote in May’s City Hall elections has been launched by election organisers London Elects. The campaign includes radio ads, posters and ads on buses and the Underground and has been split into two phases. The first phase uses familiar icons such as a London taxi cab and Underground […]
2012 London Election
News and coverage of the 2012 elections for Mayor of London and the London Assembly (The Greater London Authority).
Labour voters to give Boris a second term?
Writing for City A.M, YouGov’s Stephen Shakespeare says Boris Johnson’s current poll lead is down to Labour supporters who might yet decide to back Ken Livingstone and warns the Mayor “should not be feeling the slightest bit comfortable” about a second term. Livingstone’s poor polling follows weeks of negative headlines about his tax arrangements but […]
Jones sets out ‘world leading’ environmental policies
London could be a “role model” for addressing climate change, Green party Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones has said. Later today Ms Jones will visit Wembley where she will address local voters and launch her environmental and energy policies. Ms Jones says as Mayor she would want to see London meet four major targets by 2030: […]
Livingstone makes election plea to London’s youths
Labour candidate for Mayor Ken Livingstone has urged the capital’s youth and student population to back him in next month’s election. With polls suggesting he remains six points behind Conservative rival Boris Johnson, Livingstone will spend Tuesday touring colleges in bid to secure the backing of the capital’s estimated 90,000 18 years olds. The former […]
Make the Fab Four the Magnificent Seven
Well this is interesting. Today’s polling. In spite of the saturation coverage provided by the BBC for the Greens and the LibDems (alongside what it calls the other two “main” candidates), and a very small rise in polling support for them, there has been just as much a rise in support for the outsiders (in […]
