Local elections results – live: Labour win in West Midlands and London as Sunak facing fresh rebellion
Labour’s Sadiq Khan secures third term as Mayor of London, beating Conservative Susan Hall
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Rishi Sunak is facing fresh Conservative unrest after Labour claimed victory in the West Midlands mayoral election, beating Andy Street in a tight race.
The newly elected mayor, Richard Parker, secured a majority against his Conservative opponent who has served two terms and held office since 2017.
The result is the latest in a string of Labour mayoral and council wins nationwide as the Conservatives suffered historic blows. “I don’t think he’s out of the woods,” a former minister told the Financial Times, referring to Mr Sunak’s position.
Meanwhile, Labour’s Sadiq Khan secured a third term as Mayor of London beating Conservative Susan Hall.
Mr Sunak also suffered terrible losses in council elections as the Conservatives lost more than 400 councillors and control of ten councils.
State of play
Total no of councils - Lab 50 (+8) | Lib Dem: 12 (+ 2)| Con: 6 (-10) | Ind & Others: 1 (+1) | Greens: 0 | NOC: 36 (-1)
Councillors - Lab 1,140 (+185) | Lib Dem: 521 (+104) | Con: 513 (-473) | Ind & Others: 228 (+93) | Green: 181 (+74) | RA 48 (+11) | Workers Party of Britain 4 (+4) | Reform 2 (+2)
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Sadiq Khan wins Barnet and Camden
Results for Barnet and Camden:
Sadiq Khan – 70,981
Susan Hall – 57,465
Sadiq Khan wins City and East
Labour’s Sadiq Khan wins City and East by a landslide victory. Votes stand as follows:
Sadiq Khan – 108,977
Susan Hall – 38,626
The Liberal Democrats have won more council seats overall than the Conservatives in the local elections, expert Sir John Curtice said.
The elections expert told the BBC: “The Liberal Democrats now have 520 councillors, and the Conservatives have 508. It is now clear to us with just the one council to go that the Liberal Democrats will end up having won more council seats than the Conservatives in these local elections.
“This is a simple headline way of underlining the way in which the results of those local elections have indeed been extremely disappointing for the Conservatives.”
However, Sir John pointed out that this “probably says more about the problems that the Conservative Party faces rather than the Liberal Democrats having done particularly well”.
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Susan Hall wins Ealing and Hillingdon
In the closest result yet, Susan Hall wins Ealing and Hillingdon with 75,396 vote, while Sadiq Khan narrowly misses with 73,257 votes.
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Labour’s Tracy Brabin has been re-elected as Mayor of West Yorkshire with 275,430 votes.
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Andy Burnham has been re-elected as Greater Manchester Mayor after winning 426,749 votes.
Susan Hall wins Brent and Harrow
Results for Brent and Harrow:
Susan Hall – 66,151
Sadiq Khan – 58,743
159,033 voters, 37% turnout
Andy Street ahead in first West Midlands result
Traditional Tory stronghold Solihull was the first of seven council areas to declare its results for the West Midlands Mayor election, with Andy Street polling well ahead of Labour’s Richard Parker.
Mr Parker received 11,728 votes, well behind Mr Street on 35,289.
Green Party candidate Siobhan Harper-Nunes received the third highest vote in the borough (3,582).
Solihull has the smallest number of registered voters of the seven boroughs in the region, with 162,529 of an electorate of more than two million.
Labour’s incumbent police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands, Simon Foster, is on course to retain the post after polling 125,631 votes in the Birmingham City Council area, compared to 77,798 for Conservative candidate Tom Byrne.
Mr Foster won a large majority in Coventry, winning 43,014 votes.
The results give Mr Foster a commanding lead with only the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall yet to declare PCC results in the region.
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