Question about the UK local elections this may [View all]

[Ken Burch]

In the races(such as the mayoral contests in London and other large cities)in which the Supplementary Vote used to elect the mayor, what effect will the coalition government agreement between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats come in to play?

Will the LibDem candidates(who will mostly be finishing in third place)be obligated to call for their supporters to give their second-preference votes to the Tory candidate(such as Boris Johnson)?

And if this were the case, would it mean that, to defeat Boris or any other Tory mayoral candidate anywhere else, the Labour candidate would have to win an outright majority of first-preference votes?