When voting for Mayor Londoners are able to cast one vote for their first preference candidate and one vote for their second preference.
If no candidate secures more than 50% of the first preference votes the two highest scoring candidates go through to a second round and all second preference votes allocated to the candidate they were cast for.
The candidate with the highest number of first and second preference votes is then elected Mayor.
45% of respondents in today’s Comres poll say they will give their first preference vote to Johnson while 36% say they’ll vote for Livingstone.
The poll also suggests that Green candidate Jenny Jones is third placed with 6% of the vote, ahead of Liberal Democrat Brian Paddick who is on 5%.
Independent Candidate Siobhan Benita is the choice of 3%, ahead of UKIP’s Lawrence Webb and the BNP’s Carlos Cortiglia who tie on 2%.
After second preference votes are taken into account the poll suggests Johnson is the choice of 54% of voters while Livingstone has the support of 46%.
A previous Comres poll gave Mr Johnson a 6 point lead while a YouGov poll published on Monday suggested just 2% separates the two front runners.
Candidates for Mayor include Jenny Jones (Green party), Ken Livingstone (Labour), Lawrence Webb (UKIP) Boris Johnson (Conservative) and Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat). A full list of candidates can be found here.
Candidates standing as London Assembly constituency members can be found here. Candidates for the 11 Assembly London-wide seats can be found here.
Robin says
April 26, 2012 at 9:27 pmYes the media esp BBC,ITV have airbrushed UKIP out of GLA elections,London is ‘Our’ hardest area due to fluidity of populace, 125,000 move in and same out annually, see Electoral roll…however we should get One on the assembly pretty good considering lack of coverage,5% and media love affair with ”Blair babe” siobhan…
Tacitly insolvable says
April 27, 2012 at 1:42 pm@Robin,
Is your insult aimed at Siobhan an indication of your party’s fear of the results?
Maybe you need some new policies – watching the farquars bang on about Europe when there are more important things going on is terribly tedious for the population.
Also maybe people don’t trust a party which wishes to disaasociate itself with Europe and ultimately remove rights like the minimum wage – because they know (form experience) than the capitalists answer to depression is to make the workers work for nothing more than sustinence? (and the minimum wage prevents that)
…or maybe it’s because at the end of the day UKIP are just ‘extreme and single issued’ Tories.
Tacitly insolvable says
April 27, 2012 at 1:46 pmI would like to introduce a new system of polling.
I live in a reasonably affluent part of London – a ‘vote Boris’ picture went up on the local telephone box (the only priority 1 line for miles I might add – but that’s another story)
it took less than a day before someone defaced Boris’s picture.
I’d say that’s as much an indication as any poll. Boris may win the election – but if he does there will be more riots in the future as he allows the ConDem Government to close youth centres, libraries and after school clubs and activities.