I don’t go to the Ally Pally count – but head off to City Hall. The campaign team are using our offices (as are all the groups) as the nerve centre of the day to receive all the counts, results and to put together the lines and the data so we can see how it’s going.

My sister joins me for the day at City Hall. I don’t have a partner or parents – and she is a good person to have around on such a day!

It’s all good. Nothing much until the afternoon when the GLA constituency counts begin to come in. In our two key targets we have made significant advances – and on the list vote – and we get our ambition of an extra LibDem member taking us from 4 to 5.

Icing on our cake is Labour’s decline from 9 to 7 members and the Greens from 3 to 2.

Obviously, the arrival of 2 UKIP members is a bit of a new scenario – and has clearly affected the votes of the other parties – but that’s democracy.

Toby Harris, the Labour leader, loses his seat as does the Tory leader Eric Ollerenshaw and the Tories failed to gain the Enfield & Haringey seat which they had been very cocky about.

As for the Mayoral contest – Ken is back. Simon fought a fantastic campaign – but it just didn’t take off in terms of votes. What a pity.

So the new term will begin with a completely different dynamic and tomorrow we will begin to look at how the land lies. I don’t think London would want us to sell our soul to the Mayor by being bought off. I think London would want us LibDems to stand full square in holding him to account – but all that is for tomorrow and next week.