Little more than a day since the start of our poll, the Tories are storming into a huge lead.

With more than 2,000 votes cast by Times readers on who you’d vote for on Thursday’s local and London mayoral elections, David Cameron’s party has achieved close to 70 per cent of the total vote, with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and other parties languishing around the 10 per cent mark.

We don’t, of course, claim our results are scientific, that floppy-haired Boris Johnson has by any means got it in the bag, or that Ken Livingstone’s necessarily toast.

But we do say our poll’s much more fun than the real thing, because you can have your say wherever in the world you live, from Georgia to Oman.  And so, using some rather funky technology provided by our polling company, here are some interesting geographical observations on where the last 500 voters have come from, and who they support.

Gordon Brown’s Labour have struggled, well, pretty much everywhere. But he has gained a handful of votes in the left-leaning liberal US east coast states of Pennsylvania and New York, as well as in Europe – Ireland, France and Finland, to be precise – New South Wales in Australia, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Tories have votes from pretty much all over the world, including much of Europe and as far afield as Jordan, the Phillipines, Ghana and South Africa. The Lib Dems do best in Europe where – one would imagine – a larger number of people have heard of them. But they also picked up a vote in the bohemian US city of New Orleans.

Vibrant political debate has also been raging in the comment section beneath our poll. Grievances with the government over the smoking ban feature in several comments below, along with the economy, the European Union, immigration, and the prospect of voting fraud because of the postal vote system.

But it isn’t all doom and gloom for Gordon Brown. Some of you say that voting Tory would be to vote to go back to the days of mass-unemployment and economic instability in the 1980s and ’90s. One of you says Mr Brown is more honest than David Cameron, who is painted as an opportunist. And you also point out that Mr Cameron hasn’t exactly come up with many decent policy initiatives of his own. Or, as one of you says, the Tory leader has established himself as a “polished, name-calling yob” but little else.

So join the debate below, and have your say by voting in our poll while you’re at it.

And while you’re here, why not take a glimpse at our map of the world showing where the last 500 voters have come from by clicking here