A HUGE win for Boris Johnson in Bromley and Bexley sent him on his way to becoming Mayor.
Support for Mr Johnson was much greater in the outlying boroughs - just as was expected prior to the election.
However the size of his victory in Bromley and Bexley - where he won almost 82,000 votes more than Ken Livingstone - made up 58 per cent of his overall winning margin across all 14 constituencies.
Across London Mr Johnson won 1,043,761 first preference votes and 124,977 second preference votes, making a total of 1,168,738 votes.
This was 139,772 votes more than Mr Livingstone got after second preference votes had been counted.
In Bexley and Bromley 122,052 people voted for Mr Johnson, compared to 40,670 people who voted for Mr Livingstone - giving him 60.8per cent of the votes compared to 20 per cent for Mr Livingstone.
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In Bexley and Bromely Mr Johnson won by 81,382 - which if you consider as a percentage of his London-wide winning margin - is 58.2 per cent.
Mr Johnson's success in Bexley and Bromley was partly due to a higher than average voter turnout in the constituency - 49.32per cent compared with an average of 45 per cent London-wide.
This was the first time the number of Londoners voting in an mayoral election passed the 2,000,000 mark.
The new Mayor also won significant victories in seven other constituencies: Croydon and Sutton, Merton and Wandsworth, South West, West Central, Ealing and Hillingdon, Barnet and Camden, and Havering and Redbridge.
In the vote for a London Assembly member for Bexley and Bromley Conservative James Cleverly also enjoyed a huge win, grabbing more than 52per cent of the votes.
Mr Cleverly won 105,162 votes - 75,237 more than his nearest rival, Labour's Alex Heslop.
The Conservative vote in the London Assembly election was up 13.58 per cent on four years ago - suggesting the Tories benefitted from the high voter turnout this time around.
In Greenwich and Lewisham Labour's Len Duvall was elected to the London Assembly for a third time.
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