It's Official - Boris is Mayor

This does not bode well for moose and squirrel. And kudo's to Anna Prickard at the Guardian. Her liveblogging throughout the past twelve hours has been absolutely hilarious and addictive. She couldn't go home and I couldn't stop reading.

11.51pm. In the evening. Nearly midnight.

Full results. TOTAL FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES
BNP 69,710
UKIP 22,422
Sian Berry/Green 77,374
Christian Choice: 39,249
Left List: 16,796
BORIS JOHNSON/Con 1,043,761
KEN LIVINGSTONE/Labour 893,877
Winston McKenzie (ind): 5389
Matt O'Connor (English Democrats): 10,695
BRIAN PADDICK/libdem: 236,685

Because there was no one person with over 50% of the total vote, the two with the most (Ken and Bozza) went to second preference votes.

FINAL FINAL TOTAL:

Boris: 1,168,738
Ken: 1,028,966

So there we have it.

Boris Johnson is the next mayor of London.

He'd like to thank his wife, and his brilliant campaign team, and the many Conservative activists that made this all possible. He'd like to thank the police. He would like to tell Ken that he thinks he has been 'a very considerable public servant', and then says nice things about him. Ken smiles, stiffly.

He's Boris. And he's now your mayor, London. Enjoy.
The rest of us will sit here and watch.

And here is the rest of it.