{"title":"LONDON JEWRY AND THE LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION OF 2012: A NOTE","authors":"G. Alderman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.57","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.57","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.