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Local election results 2024 live: Mayoral results due after Labour notches up key wins - BBC News Local election results 2024 live: Mayoral results due after Labour notches up key wins - BBC News
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Harry Farley Thomas Mackintosh
Political correspondent Live reporter
Rishi Sunak looks to have We won't know the outcome of the Mayor of London race until later on this evening, but we know turnout for the election was 40.5% - slightly down compared to the last election in 2021.
avoided the all-out insurrection that some of his supporters feared could come As always, votes were verified first, on Friday, and the count starts today with results expected later on.
after a dire set of local election results. Sadiq Khan is chasing an historic third term as mayor of London, having won previous elections in 2016 and 2021. He ran a campaign that promised to continue with free school lunches for older primary school children for four more years.
Conservative MPs are not - at the His Tory opponent, Susan Hall, has focused on issues affecting drivers, in particular promising to axe the extension of the ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) to outer London, which charges the most polluting vehicles to travel.
moment - agitating for a change in leader. A victory for Andy Street as West Other candidates include Zoe Garbett for the Green Party and Rob Blackie for the Liberal Democrats.
Midlands mayor today would give the prime minister another ray of hope in an
otherwise bleak picture.
Labour on the other hand are
jubilant. Not just at how many council seats they have won but where - areas
they need to win in a general election.
The party is expected to hold onto its
regional mayors in Manchester, Liverpool, and West and South Yorkshire when the
results are declared later.
There are some indications the
race for London mayor could be closer than expected. But anything other than a
win for Labour's incumbent Sadiq Khan would be a major upset.
The Liberal Democrats had a
boost last night too - overturning a Conservative majority in the Tory
heartland of Dorset to win control of the council there, as well as in
Tunbridge Wells earlier in the day.
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