Tom Anderson wrote in
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, David Jackman wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote in
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Aidan Stanger wrote:

Am I right in thinking the mayor's completely lost popular support?

No.

I know this because a few months ago, we had one of those 'election'
things, where people got to say who they supported, and more people
supported him than anyone else. See:

http://www.londonelects.org.uk/results/mayor/index.html

Which shows that 86.8% of the electorate didn't vote for Ken as first
choice. Most, is fact, didn't vote atall.

Sigh. I didn't see _that_ response coming _at all_.

More people voted for Ken than for any other candidate. Are you
suggesting there is anyone else with more popular support?


I'm not sure which is more remarkable:

a) that less than 15% of the electorate could actually be bothered to go
and vote for Ken, whom I thought had popular support (but now I'm not so
sure) or

b) that more than half a million voted for Steve Norris, who I don't think
even most Tories would claim has popular support....