Sadiq Khan has won a second term as London’s mayor beating Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey.
He won 55.2% of the popular vote, after entering a run-off with Mr Bailey when neither managed to secure a majority in the first round of voting.
The Green Party’s Sian Berry came third, while the Liberal Democrats’ Luisa Porritt was fourth.
The Lib Dems lost their deposit, as Ms Porritt failed to win more than 5% of the vote.
Khan’s closest rival was Shaun Bailey, who received 44.8% of the first and second-round votes, and increased the Conservative vote share by 1.6%. Laurence Fox, David Kurten & Piers Corbyn also came further down in the results.
The results of the elections around the UK shows our country, and even our city, remains deeply divided.
The scars of Brexit have yet to heal. A crude culture war is pushing us further apart.
Economic inequality is getting worse both within London and in different parts of our country.
As we seek to confront the enormity of the challenge ahead, and as we endeavour to rebuild from this pandemic, we must use this moment of national recovery to heal those damaging divisions.”
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