The fourth-placed home side -- at that point 2-1 down and playing with 10 men since before halftime after Nenad Tomovic was sent off for elbowing Balotelli's strike partner Stephan El Shaarawy -- fought back to equalize through a late penalty by David Pizarro.
But for the vagaries of the electoral, David Jones and Boris Johnson would be parliamentary neighbours ("I fought Clwyd South - and Clwyd South fought back") so perhaps Mr Jones shouldn't take Mr Johnson's intervention personally.
Livingston fought back, and in the ninth minute their Canadian striker David Xausa might have done better than scuff the ball past the post from six yards with the goal at his mercy.