On London Extra: The wait

The big result is due tomorrow evening. Plus Assembly seats to watch, devolution debate and more

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Early yesterday morning I awoke to thunderclaps, lightning and rain. The crowing of the cockerel some fellow E5 resident has inexplicably acquired felt more haunting than usual. And when I went to my local polling station mid-morning I tried not to sound too nervy when I asked the staff if they'd been busy.

Since then, ominous indicators have accumulated: talk of low turnout; Labour's insistence that the result is desperately close feeling still less like pure expectation management. And then, after voting had ceased, a journalist tweeted that Conservative campaign headquarters were "apparently chipper" and "utterly convinced" that Susan Hall has been elected Mayor of London.