election

Links to impartial information explaining the referendum on the UK Parliamentary voting system which takes place on Thursday 5 May.

It wasn’t even close: In yesterday’s mayoral election in Tower Hamlets, independent candidate (and former Labour member) Lutfur Rahman beat hapless Labour candidate Helal Abbas by a huge margin. On a turnout that barely nudged past 25%, Rahman took 51% of the first-preference votes, with …

Part of Joan Ruddock’s expenses return. You can view the whole return on Flickr. A Londonist investigation has revealed that Lewisham Deptford MP Joan Ruddock may have taken advantage of a loophole in Electoral Commission guidance, which allows an election candidate to avoid submitting receipts …

Calm before the storm? Image by Phill4 from the Londonist Flickr pool New Tory MP for Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith, is facing an Electoral Commission inquiry after Channel 4 News and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found indications he spent significantly more on his campaign …

The Queen has spoken. The election was so dramatic that it has given rise to two new plays. Watch your pockets on the tube: Eastern European pickpockets have apparently been busy. Official ale taster: now there’s a job… Plans to close half of London for …

Since May Day and the thrilling election denouement almost two weeks ago, a peaceful protest camp has taken over Parliament Square, offering a rude reminder to new ministers of quite how grubby the great unwashed can be. Last year, the Tories claimed that, once in …

Last week, you may recall, Londonist rather hubristically predicted London’s election results. At the time we said we expected not to get everything right. This, it turned out, was our most accurate prediction of the day. Here’s what we predicted: …and here’s what actually happened:

Nationally, it’s official: we have a hung Parliament, the first since 1974, and the pony-trading between the party leaders has begun in earnest. Nick Clegg has flirted with the Conservatives, calling on them to form a government “in the national interest”, but does he hanker …

Londonist will be your companion through the night as the national and local election results roll in. Your hosts for the evening are Jonn (@jonnelledge), and Rachel (@bagelmouse), who’ll be rounding up the news as it happens and attempting to make some sort of sense …

Londonist guesses the election result Tonight, we’ll be staying up late, to watch the results come in and blog them live as they happen. But right now the voting’s just getting going, and we’re in a hubristic frame of mind. So we decided to try …