Thanks, Anomymous, you beat me to it. I was there when the result was proclaimed and have just got back.
Here it is:
Richard Tracey (Conservative) 65,197 43.1%
Leonie Cooper (Labour) 55,216 36.5%
Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat) 11,904 7.9%
Roy Vickery (Green Party) 11,307 7.5%
Mazhar Manzoor (UKIP) 3,717 2.5%
Thamilini Kulendran (IND) 2,424 1.6%
James Martin (Socialist Party) 1,343 0.9%
Total Ballot papers 153,785
Invalid or Blank 2,677
Valid 151,108
Turnout: 40.2%
For the record, when reading out the result the Returning Officer did refer to our candidate simply as "The Socialist Party".
Nothing else to report except that I did see a write-in vote in South West for the ISLP or "Independent Socialist Labour Party", a one-family breakaway from the Scargill Labour Party (I know who he must be: he stood for Kingston council last May). Also the Independent candidate told me that at the last council elections he had stood for the LibDems in Tooting.
But then, Bill's vote would treble if we claimed the spoilt ballots ...
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I don't think so. I saw some of them. Most were invalid for voting for more than one candidate, though one of these I saw recorded Labour as 1 and us as 2. Make of that what you will.
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