It looks like last Thursday's good weather with temperatures reaching 26 degrees Celsius in the capital, making it the warmest day of the year so far helped to boost turnout at this year's local elections.
In Croydon 40.4 per cent of the 242,291 electorate cast their votes which was not only a 5.9 per cent increase compared with 2002 but also around four per cent above the national average.
More than 50 per cent of the 9,355 people eligible to vote in the borough's Selsdon and Ballards ward made it to the ballot box a 10 per cent increase compared with four years ago.
And in Waddon, a ward that became a key battleground in the election campaign, the votes of more than 5,000 people 45.7 per cent of the electorate were cast.
Turnout at local elections is historically low with only around a third of eligible people usually bothering to vote.
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