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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Mayoral predictions - how did we do?

The actual result in London Mayoral Election

Johnson CON 1,043,761
42.48


Livingstone LAB 893,877 36.38


Paddick LD 236,685 9.63


Berry GRN 77,374 3.15


Barnbrook BNP 69,710 2.84


Craig CPA 39,249 1.6


Batten UKIP 22,422 0.91


German LL 16,796 0.68


O'Connor END 10,695 0.44


McKenzie IND 5,389 0.22

Our prediction had Boris Johnson on 39 % Ken Livingstone on 37 %, which was reasonably close, within the margin of error for Boris at the worst. We did overstate Paddick on 14 % and Berry at just under 5 %. We were damn close with the BNP at 2.5 % (and that's as close as we ever want to be to the BNP. And we understated the others at 1.5 % when they closer to 4%.

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