By Joe Talora, native democracy reporter
Sadiq Khan remains the favourite to win the London Mayor election, according to the latest opinion polling.
With election day simply three weeks away, the latest opinion poll from Opinium has put Sadiq Khan on 51 per cent of first choice votes, 22 factors forward of nearest rival Shaun Bailey.
It is one among a number of polls to put Sadiq Khan on greater than 50 per cent which, if replicated in the precise election, would see the Labour candidate declared the winner with out the want for a second spherical.
Every Mayor of London election since the first in 2000 has required two rounds of voting to produce a winner, taking into consideration voters’ second preferences.
The latest poll has put Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey in second with 29 per cent of first choice votes, whereas Green candidate Sian Berry and Lib Dem candidate Luisa Porritt are tied for third place on eight per cent.
UKIP’s Peter Gammons is on target for fourth place, according to the poll, with one per cent of first choice votes.
Despite small variations, latest opinion polls have largely produced comparable findings, with Sadiq Khan polling between 47 and 53 per cent whereas Shaun Bailey is polling between 25 and 29 per cent.
The polls from Opinium, YouGov and Redfield and Wilton have discovered Sian Berry polling between six and 10 per cent whereas Luisa Porritt is polling between 4 and 12 per cent.
Meanwhile, a latest YouGov poll carried out on behalf of the Mile End Institute discovered that different candidates have begun to make some headway, with former actor Laurence Fox on 4 per cent and ex-banker Brian Rose on three per cent.
Though there was little distinction in the polling for candidates, a latest poll from Opinium for the Evening Standard discovered that crime had overtaken well being and the NHS as the situation most essential to voters in the upcoming election.
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