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Thread #144738   Message #3348379
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-May-12 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Welcome back Boris
Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back Boris
Sorry - those figures I gave were for the mayoral vote after second preferences had been included.

The first preference votes were 971,931 for Boris Johnson and 889,918 for Ken Livingstone.

So Ken did get a few thousand less than the overall Labour vote - but the big difference was that Boris got several hundred thousand votes more than the Tories as a whole.