Election celebrations and lamentations ready to kick off

It's finally E-Day. When the exit poll results start rolling in shortly after 10pm, election parties across London will be in full swing. Former Tory treasurer Michael Spencer, chief executive of interdealer broker Icap, has booked out Scott's restaurant in Mayfair. Perhaps guests will go around the corner to 5 Hertford Street after dinner.

Robin Birley's private members' club - popular with socialites and hedgies - is also throwing a party. "I imagine it will be rather like the Titanic," says one man about town who plans to attend. "The band plays on, while the private jets get the hell out of here."

Meanwhile Finsbury chairman Roland Rudd is throwing a private dinner at the Villandry St James's. Guests will include BAE Systems chairman Sir Roger Carr.

One of the hottest tickets in town is to see The Vote at Donmar Warehouse. The theatre's chairman Lord Browne will be among those watching the play - set in a polling station 90 minutes before polls close on election day. The performance starts at that exact same time.

Law firm DLA Piper is hosting a party at Tate Britain. A bizarre memo to journalists dictates that: "Tate is happy to accommodate some media coverage on the understanding that such coverage categorically has no reference to Tate, its buildings, collections, programmes and/or brand."

Word on the street is that one unnamed senior banker is throwing a "double mansion tax party" at his huge suburban mansion. It's a mansion tax commiseration (or celebration) party. You're not welcome unless you have at least two houses that qualify for the mansion tax. There goes City Insider's invitation.

The art market has taken a view on the Conservative party's leadership. And it's putting its money on mayor of London Boris Johnson.

Julian Page Fine Art is selling a pair of etchings by Alexander Massouras, which feature Boris Johnson as "The Sun King" and Prime Minister David Cameron as "Camerondius". Intriguingly, BoJo is on the market for £450, while the Cameron is selling for £400. The pair can be snapped up together for £750 (unframed).

It's an edition of 100. According to art dealer Julian Page: "All I can tell you about sales is that Boris is ahead." The etchings, editions of which were snapped up by the British Museum, incorporate poems by British broadcaster and poet Luke Wright.

Cameron's poem feels mildly prophetic: "And should I fall, this portrait shall remain / while someone else just like me takes the reins." Ride on, Boris.

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