It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Opinion: Where now on Electoral Reform? (France!) (67 comments) by Mark Wright
2. Why the Lib Dems are standing for barely half the elected police commissioner posts (19 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. Opinion: A Really Popular Lib Dem Policy Proposal – Free Anti-Viral Software! (62 comments) by Geoff Crocker
4. A confession: I’m a Lib Dem and I support elected police commissioners (53 comments) by Stephen Tall
5. Kiron Reid resigns from Lib Dems to run as independent police commissioner in Merseyside (11 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. A bit of flexitime
2. EU Strengthens Sanctions on Iran
3. Lib Dems in 44% of country get it right re Police Elections
4. “Hold all opinions tentatively”-atheism vs agnosticism
5. MP Troughers turn electorate off politicians even more

5 from the LDV archive

(October 26th, 2006-11)

1. Prime Minister’s Questions ruined by Andrew Lloyd-Webber (5 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006
2. It’s one ex-leader apiece for Chris and Nick (10 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007
3. Tebbit backs Lib Dem Euro policy (23 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
4. Mark Littlewood resigns Lib Dem membership for IEA Director job (175 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2009
5. Making short political videos: three top tips (1 comment) by Helen Duffett, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. abu hamza
2. votes prisoners europe
3. winston roddick
4. ryan coetzee
5. graham tope a life in politics

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

As government stops badger cull a relieved looking Alistair Darling reappears in House of Commons.

— Alistair Carmichael (@acarmichaelmp) October 23, 2012

House of Commons just risen for the day. At 16:48. It used to be about 22:30. These new sitting hours are going to get some getting used to!

— Hamish McCallum (@hamishmccallum) October 23, 2012

I’m launching UK – South Sudan partnership to deliver 9.3 million textbooks in time for next school year – thanks to UKAid – lf

— Lynne Featherstone (@lfeatherstone) October 22, 2012

Lib Dems secure narrow victory in Pinkneys Green by-election bit.ly/RNY9c6

— Windsor Observer (@windsorobserver) October 26, 2012

Spent a wonderful lunch talking to many older people today at the @age_uk Twickenham Wellbeing Centre twitter.com/vincecable/sta…

— Vince Cable (@vincecable) October 26, 2012

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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…