The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2007

Declaration of result

57.—(1) The GLRO must declare to be elected as the Mayor of London the candidate who, in accordance with section 4(2) of the 1999 Act or Part I of Schedule 2 to that Act (including those provisions as applied by section 16(4) at an election to fill a vacancy), as the case may be, is to be returned as the Mayor at that election.

(2) The GLRO must give public notice of—

(a) the name of the of the person declared to be elected and his authorised description, if any, within the meaning of rule 6(5) or (7),

(b) the total number of first preference votes given for each candidate,

(c) the total number of second preference votes given for each of the candidates remaining in the contest after the count of the first preference votes,

(d) the number of rejected ballot papers at the election under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers, and

(e) the number of ballot papers on which no second preference vote was counted under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers,

(3) In an uncontested election, the GLRO must as soon as practicable after the latest time for the delivery of notices of withdrawals of candidature—

(a) declare to be elected the candidate remaining validly nominated, and

(b) give public notice of the name of the person declared to be elected and his authorised description, if any, within the meaning of rule 6(5) or (7).

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), after the GLRO complies with paragraphs (1) and (2), he may, in so far as is practicable, give public notice of the information referred to paragraph (2)(b) to (e) so as to set out the number of votes falling under each of those heads, in respect of each ward.

(5) Where the sum of first preference votes given for all candidates in any ward does not exceed 500, the GLRO must not give notice under paragraph (4) in respect of that ward alone, but must amalgamate the figures for that ward with those for any other ward in which more than 500 votes have been given, in the same Assembly constituency.