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May 03, 2008

Constituency Assembly results show voters were bothered

2008 result for London Assembly compared to 2004:

Turnout = UP 8.31%

Valid votes cast = UP 4.22% (ie. the number of rejected ballots is fewer by that much)

Turnout was 45.28%, a mere 0.05% less than the Mayoral result. So there were under 3000 people who didn't bother to enclose the Assembly ballot papers with the Mayoral one when they posted their vote back / put it into the ballot box.

Given the minimal media coverage given to the Assembly election compared to the Mayoral race, it is impressive that almost all voters continued filling in their ballot papers and didn't just vote for Mayor.

Posted by malcolmclark on May 03, 2008

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