LONDON JEWRY AND THE LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION OF 2012: A NOTE

Abstract

This note addresses some features of the London mayoral election of 3 May 2012. Two candidaters dominated the event: Boris Johnson the incumbent, a politically Conservative idiosyncratic media personality and Ken Livingstone, his predecessor, a stalwart of the Labour party’s ‘hard’ Left who had served as Mayor from 2000 until 2008.  Livingstone lost the electoral contest in a singularly significant way and Jews played a significant role in his defeat.