Tower Hamlets Mayor - full result

Tower Hamlets website has now got the full result for the 21 October 2010 election of a Mayor for Tower Hamlets Council

This is an analysis of the numbers:

• 25.6% of the electorate voted - which is a very low turn-out
  
• 51.76% of those who cast a vote (13.2% ofthe electorate) voted for Lutfur Rahman, the Independent Candidate, who has been duly elected as the first directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets

Candidate's name	Party	No. of first preference votes	% of first preference votes	Result
Abbas, Helal Uddin	The Labour Party	11,254	25.02%
Duffell, Alan	Green Party	2,300	5.11%
Griffiths, John David Macleod	Liberal Democrat	2,800	6.22%
King, Neil Anthony	Conservative Party	5,348	11.89%
Rahman, Lutfur	Independent	23,283	51.76%	ELECTED
	TOTAL VOTES	44,985	100.00%
	TOTAL ELECTORATE	175,722 (est.) 25.6% voted

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