May elections: What we know so far
Elections took place yesterday in the capital for the Mayor, constituency London Assembly members, and London-wide Assembly members with results known within the coming hours and days.
London Elects, which organises the Mayoral and other polls, has a YouTube live feed which will show the results. It can be found here.
London Elects will also list the results on this webpage.
In the 2021 Mayoral election, the votes were counted electronically using machines which fed into a “progress bar” on the London Elects website.
This year votes are being counted manually, with the first-past-the-post voting system being used for the first time in the Mayoral election.
The counts are taking place at 14 centres, each representing one constituency for the London Assembly.
How quickly they carry out their counts may depend on the size of their respective electorate.
The parties, their candidates and agents, will be told the results shortly before they are announced.
The official result may only be announced late on Saturday night after the tallying of all the votes in City Hall.
Polls for the local election are also underway. With fewer than a third of council elections declared so far, the Conservatives have already lost more than 100 council seats on a night of heavy losses for the party.
Jonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) said: “Against the backdrop of a steady Conservative decline since 2019, the results so far indicate the trend will not be bucked this year.
“Initial results look good for Labour, and there are no huge surprises so far. The narrative developing so far is one of large Conservative losses, although they have managed to hold on in some cases where they had small majorities, such as the key test of Harlow in the East of England.
“We know however, that local elections are a long haul and the picture may change in the coming hours and days.”
Mr Carr-West warned that local elections “are not a warm up act” for the general election but a “crucial” part of democracy.
“These results will determine the leaders who will serve our communities and make the decisions that directly impact our lives”, he said.
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