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Election 2008:

Val Shawcross wins Southwark and Lambeth with big swing to Labour

Ken Livingstone loses London mayoralty

In the elections on 1 May 2008 (details below), Val Shawcross (Labour) was re-elected as Southwark and Lambeth representative on the Greater London Assembly; the Labour Party won eight seats in total, up one. Sadly Ken Livingstone (Labour) was not re-elected Mayor of London.

Ken and Val

In the Assembly elections the number of Labour votes was up sharply on the 2004 election: Val Shawcross saw her votes rise from 36,280 in 2004 to 60,601 in 2008. Ken Livingstone's number of votes also increased with his London-wide first preferences going from 685,541 to 893,877, maintaining his vote share on the higher turnout though in the event this was not enough to win this time.

Our thanks to everybody who voted for the Labour Party candidates.

The Liberal Democrats saw their vote share fall in the GLA elections despite (or perhaps because of) running Southwark council with the Tories and being the main opposition in Lambeth. Val's majority over the LibDem candidate increased from 5,475 to 23,648 representing a 5% swing from LibDem to Labour in the Southwark and Lambeth constituency seat.

 


Southwark and Lambeth 

London-wide

 


Assembly
S & L

Assembly
top-up

Mayor
1st round

Mayor
1st round

Mayor
2nd round


Labour


60,601

58,554

80,172

893,877

1,028,966


LibDem


36,953

28,071

20,530

236,685

 


Con


32,835

33,466

47,754

1,043,761

1,168,738


Green


18,011

20,711

7,190

77,374

 


CPA/CP/CC


4,432

4,823

2,838

39,249

 


UKIP


3,012

1,757

848

22,422

 


LL


1,956

1,846

1,199

16,796



ED


1,867

1,255

506

10,695



AnC


1,828






SP


1,588






BNP


 

4,945

2,448

69,710

 


AbCC



4,603





Respect (GG)



2,910



 


UPS



499





1L (DH)



254





Ind



68

392

5,389



See more details at the London Elects website.


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