New ComRes poll of Londoners

ComRes have a new poll of Londoners out. Asked who they'd prefer between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone, Boris leads Ken by 44% to 35%. Unlike the rather odd question last month, this one didn't have Oona King in, gave people the option of saying other, and came straight after the initial Westminster voting intention, so should give a better picture of where the two candidates are at the start of the race.

Interestingly ComRes also asked about Voting Intention in London, which stands at CON 36%(+1), LAB 39%(+2), LDEM 16%(-6) - changes are from the actual 2010 election result. These figures are not directly comparable to majoral preferences, since these are weighted and filtered by likelihood to vote and exclude don't knows, but nevertheless Boris does seem to be outperforming his party while Ken lags behinds Labour. Looking at the cross breaks, 19% of Labour voters would prefer Boris as mayor, compared to only 9% of Conservative voters who would prefer Ken.