Ken wins mayor race Labour squeeze home in Enfield GLA vote

KEN Livingstone has won the contest to become London mayor.

But Labour have scraped home in the Enfield and Haringey constituency seat for the Greater London Assembly.

London-wide, Mr Livingstone came first out of all the candidates with 667,877 votes.

Conservative Steve Norris came second with 464,434 votes.

For Labour, Frank Dobson was pushed into third place with 223,884 votes.

And the Liberal Democrat candidate Susan Kramer won 203,121 votes.

But Mr Livingstone failed to win more than 50 per cent of the total votes, and so went into a second-round run off with Mr Norris.

And Mr Livingstone won this by 776,427 votes to 560,137 for Mr Norris.

In the Enfield and Haringey constituency seat, Labour candidate Nicky Gavron came first with 32.2 per cent of the vote.

Conservative Peter Forrest was close behind on 29.2 per cent.

Smaller parties also did well, and former Enfield Labour councillor Richard Course, standing as an Independent, polled 11.8 per cent of the vote.

However turnout was poor: less than one in three voters cast their ballots.

The breakdown of the London-wide party list vote in Enfield and Haringey has also been announced.

Under the GLA electoral system, voters could cast two ballots: one for a local constituency member, and one for a London-wide party list.

The constituency member, Nicky Gavron, was elected by a simple majority under the first-past-the-post system.

But the winners of the party list vote will be determined by proportional representation.

As yet the winner of the mayoral contest has not been announced.

LONDON MAYOR: How Enfield and Haringey voted

KEN LIVINGSTONE (Independent) 50,260; 43 per cent

STEVE NORRIS (Conservative) 28,522; 24.4 per cent

FRANK DOBSON (Labour) 16,469; 14.1 per cent

SUSAN KRAMER (Liberal Democrat) 12,113; 10.4 per cent

DARREN JOHNSON (Green) 2,762; 2.4 per cent

RAM GIDOOMAL (Christian People's Alliance) 2,398; 2 per cent

MICHAEL NEWLAND (British National Party) 1,967; 1.7 per cent

DAMIAN HOCKNEY (UK Independence Party) 928; 0.8 per cent

GEOFFREY BEN-NATHAN (Pro-Motorist and Small Shop) 667; 0.6 per cent

ASHWINKUMAR TANNA (Independent) 475; 0.4 per cent

GEOFFREY CLEMENTS (Natural Law Party) 369; 0.3 per cent

GREATER LONDON ASSEMBLY

ENFIELD AND HARINGEY CONSTITUENCY:

NICKY GAVRON (Labour) 34,509; 32.2 per cent

PETER FORREST (Conservative) 31,207; 29.2 per cent

SEAN HOOKER (Liberal Democrat) 14,319; 13.4 per cent

RICHARD COURSE (Independent) 12,581; 11.8 per cent

PETER BUDGE (Green) 10,761; 10 per cent

WEYMAN BENNETT (London Socialist Alliance) 3,671; 3.4 per cent

Labour majority 3,202; 3.1 per cent

Turnout: 30.8 per cent

GREATER LONDON ASSEMBLY

PARTY LIST VOTE IN ENFIELD AND HARINGEY:

LABOUR 37,191; 33 per cent

CONSERVATIVE 29,807; 26.4 per cent

GREEN 14,673; 13 per cent

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 13,824; 12.2 per cent

CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE 3,277; 2.9 per cent

BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY 2,634; 2.3 per cent

LONDON SOCIALIST ALLIANCE 2,564; 2.3 per cent

PETER TATCHELL: 1,803; 1.6 per cent

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TUBE PRIVATISATION 1,424; 1.3 per cent

SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY 1,213; 1.1 per cent

PRO- MOTORIST AND SMALL SHOP 895; 0.8 per cent

COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN: 718; 0.6 per cent

NATURAL LAW PARTY: 571; 0.5 per cent