Sadiq Khan poised to win City Hall race, final poll shows

Sadiq Khan poised to win City Hall race, final poll shows

Sadiq Khan today looked on course to make history as Mayor of London despite a last-minute fall in his lead over rival Zac Goldsmith.

As Londoners began voting, the final poll of the year-long battle for City Hall found the Labour lawyer ahead of the Tory environmentalist by 43 per cent to 32 per cent on first preference votes.

In the final run-off, according to the YouGov survey exclusively for the Evening Standard, Mr Khan is heading for a victory that would make him the capital’s first Muslim mayor by a clear 57 to 43 margin.

The gap narrowed as the bitterly contested fight to succeed Boris Johnson entered its final hours.

Since YouGov’s last survey a fortnight ago, Mr Khan’s lead has fallen from 16 points to 11 points on first preferences, and is down from a landslide 20 points in the run-off to 14.

The figures injected hope into the Goldsmith campaign that there could be a late swing in his favour before the result is announced on Friday night, especially with the turnout being predicted to slump below a meagre 35 per cent.

One theory was that the searing row over Ken Livingstone’s Hitler comments and anti-Semitism in the Labour Party had jolted the Khan bandwagon just as it was nearing the finish line.

Today’s survey also sees Londoners giving the new mayor his orders, setting out exactly what they want to see delivered in key areas.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/london-mayoral-elections-sadiq-khan-poised-to-win-city-hall-race-final-poll-shows-a3240481.html

If he wins it will be the Muslim votes that carried it.

nicko wrote:If he wins it will be the Muslim votes that carried it.

The danger signs are staring us in the face, nicko.

You all have been warned about sleepwalking into self destruction yet you do it.

I wanted Caroline Pisgeon

I do hope he doesn't win it... but if he does... we will quickly see him channelling money off to Muslim groups and mosques etc...


The east London mosque in Tower hamlets has had over 3 million in public funding over last 5 years already... why!?

Tommy Monk wrote:I do hope HD doesn't win it... but if he does... we will quickly see him channelling money off to Muslim groups and mosques etc...


The east London mosque in Tower hamlets has had over 3 million in public funding over last 5 years already... why!?

Over 3 million, ya know how to make my wee wee boil Tommy.

It's probably much more than that stormee... on top of all the other handouts of taxpayer cash to all the other local 'charity' groups in the area...!!!


Many will be getting direct funding from central govt as well as from local govt... and then also from numerous other national and local and so called 'charity/non governnental organisations' that are also totally funded by national and local govt...!!!


The extent of this misuse of public funds is both endemic and epidemic throughout the UK!!!



This is tens of billions upon tens of billions we are talking about every year!!!



I've talked about this and given plenty of examples before... I'm surprised people aren't that concerned about the issue...!?

well, thats london screwed then.....(not that it isnt already )

I used to once trust the word of a Muslim and now sadly I do not.
I wish I once felt the same, but when I see evidencer that this man once defended extremists and terrorists and then lied that he had always fought against extremism. Then I know and can see a very bad lie. How ever are people going to trust Muslims, when what we see represent them, continually lie?
That saddens me, as I see no hope for many decent Muslims.

So he's not popular then?

I have to say he said some of the right things when I've seen him interviewed but I became a bit "hmmm" about him toward the end.

Caroline Pidgeon was who I wanted.
I don't live in a London constituency so couldn't vote.

best thing about london?

its sinking at the rate of about 3cm per year


only 1000 years to go..........

It's just a giant car park thanks to Boris Gump

Have to laugh - Corbyn ripped Cameron apart over the 'extremist' - turned out he was a Tory and had shared a platform with loads of Tories.


Suliman Gani has released this photo of himself with Zac Goldsmith after the Tory MP described him as 'one of the most repellent figures in this country'


Imam called Isis supporter by Cameron was asked to recruit Muslims for Tories
Suliman Gani, from Sadiq Khan’s constituency, was invited to bring members of Tooting’s Islamic community to Conservative forum by party candidate


Smears, lies and innuendo, that's what the Conservatives are all about.

Another dangerous Muslim and threat to national security...



When will people start to realise that lib lab con are all the same and vote for Ukip instead!!!???