[Glenn Van Zutphen, World News:] British prime minister Tony Blair is dealing with a rash of election setbacks. The governing Labour Party lost more seats than expected in the mid-term elections, and Blair faces the prospect of his main political nemesis winning the mayoral race in London. With the latest, let's go to Amanda Kibel in London. Amanda, an interesting day there in politics.
[Amanda Kibel, Cnn Correspondent:] Certainly has been, Glenn. Basically, we are now waiting for the results to come through. We were expecting results early this morning, and there has been a delay in those, we are told, due to problems with the electronic counting machines. Interestingly, these machines were employed for the first time in an election in this country in order to speed up the process. We are now delayed with these results by a number of hours, and we are expecting results some time around 9:30 local time. But unofficial exit polls from the local media seem to indicate that Ken Livingstone has this one in the bag. He's ahead by some 41 percent trailing him the Conservative Party candidate, Steven Norris, and trailing him still, the Labour Party candidate Frank Dobson. Now, interestingly enough, as you mentioned earlier, at the same time that London has voted for their mayor and the assembly yesterday, the country was also asked to vote in a number of local council elections. Early results on those also seem to indicate that the Labour Party has been dealt significant blow. They have lost some 550 seats in these local elections. That, coupled with the expected victory for Ken Livingstone, is certainly going to indicate to Tony Blair and his Labour Party that there is a symbolic loss of confidence in the Labour Party here in Britain. Glenn?
[Van Zutphen:] All right. Thanks, Amanda. Amanda Kibel reporting from London. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com