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Desperately Seeking Young Voters

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This Valentine’s Day London Elects – the independent body responsible for delivering and encouraging participation in the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections - was desperately seeking young voters. Do you turn 18 on 3 May? Do you love London? If so, you could help a London-wide campaign to help encourage young voters to have…

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Cartoon of the Month

As keen LCA-watchers will know, we love cartoons and have for many years commissioned them on the themes of London politics, elections and issues of the day. We are publishing a cartoon on our website every month from leading cartoonist Martin Rowson and this is the latest offering to represent London during November. Martin is…

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Mayor of London Election Events: Transport

There is no doubting that transport is a key area for the London 2012 Mayoral race. Transport is one of main subjects that impacts on almost all voters and it has been interesting to see that Ken is still thought of as highly influential in this area (particularly outside of the Western Extension Zone of…

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Boris v Ken II: The Battle Begins

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Here at LCA we have recently held three ‘LCA Election Watch’ sessions. These constituted informal round-table discussions which were both well attended and prompted fascinating debate. It’s now less than a year until Londoners head to the polls for the next instalment of what is in essence another Ken Livingstone v Boris Johnson contest. We…

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The Mayoral battle begins

Ever since we passed the one year to go mark for the 2012 Mayoral and Assembly elections at the beginning of May, it’s one hot topic which promises to increase in temperature over the coming 11 months or so. Last week alone, we saw several articles on the subject, particularly on the Mayoral election which…

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