In the end, the Tower Hamlets mayoral election wasn’t as close as we’d all expected. Labour was beaten – and beaten badly. Lutfur Rahman, who ran as an independent after he was removed as the party’s candidate, won on first preferences with 51.76 per cent of the vote (23,283 votes) on a turnout of just 25.6 per cent. Labour’s Helal Abbas finished a poor second with just 25.01 per cent of the vote (11,254 votes).
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