Congratulations Peter Whittle MLA and David Kurten MLA

UKIP's Peter Whittle and David Kurten have been elected to the London Assembly.

Peter Whittle came fifth on first preference votes in the London mayoral election with over 94k votes. Second preference votes are only counted for the two candidates with the most first preference.

UKIP support has historically been quite low in London which makes these results all the more impressive.

UKIP could hold the balance of power in London

UKIP could hold the balance of power in the London Assembly after Thursday's election if a YouGov survey for the London Evening Standard is correct.

According to YouGov, Labour are expected to end up with 12 seats, the Tories with 10, the Lib Dems with 2, UKIP with 1 and the Greens and BNP to lose their single seats.  A ConDem coalition would have 12 seats, the same as Labour leaving UKIP holding the balance of power.

A UKIP assembly member sharing the London Assembly with a 12 member ConDem coalition and 12 Labour members would be king maker - neither faction would be able to form an administration without the support of the UKIP member.

Sadly the news isn't quite as positive for mayoral candidate, Lawrence Webb, who is sitting on 3% behind Boris, Red Ken and Brian Paddick.