London Mayor election: How range of joke candidates led to record 114,000 ruined ballots
Advertisement A dizzying range of joke candidates left voters so baffled a record number of ballots were rejected in this month's London mayoral election. Around 114,000 ballots were spoilt after the first round of voting because the 20 candidates packed onto a sheet of A4 paper confused voters into either accidentally ticking the first-choice column twice or choosing too many contenders. Labour candidate Sadiq Khan went on to secure victory in the May 6 election and has been awarded a second term as Mayor of London with 1,013,721 first-choice votes. But with the four rows of candidates feat...
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