It is necessary to wait for the official decree that the neighborhood of Lambeth and Southwark is inevitable from the first results: Sadiq Khan was elected for the third consecutive term as mayor of London with a significant margin for the conservative candidate Susan. hall The Labor politician received 1,088,225 votes against 812,397, a difference of almost 276 thousand votes.
The Conservatives won only three of the 14 boroughs in which London is divided, and Khan improved his result in the West Midlands and the South West. The Tories In areas where he was second three years ago.
Labor managed to win West Central (Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster). The Tories, more than 11 thousand votes are in favour. In 2021, Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey defeated Khan in this seat by over 2200 votes.
“It's been a very difficult few months,” the mayor was quoted as saying Guardian, when the result is known. “We faced a perpetual campaign of negativity.” As if to prove this, before his victory speech, one of the attendees came to the stage shouting “Khan killed London”.
For this reason, the Labor politician thanked his mother, wife and two daughters for their strength and support and apologized to them for having to endure all the threats and opposition during his tenure.
This third term for Khan is historic given that his two predecessors, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, were the only two elected in 2000.
Political scientist John Curtis told the BBC that if the Conservatives were to keep their hopes up last night, Sadiq Khan would have “a comfortable victory in the London mayoral election”. The outcome was already guessed.
Khan, 53, became the first Muslim to lead the nation's capital in 2016 and promised in the campaign to build social housing and work closely with the next Labor government (Labor leads the Conservatives by a wide margin, 14 years in power in England) to increase police resources.
While polls showed a gap of 25 percentage points between Khan and his rival, the mayor insisted it was a close contest between the two.
According to London Elects, cited Guardian, electoral participation was 1.5% lower compared to 2021, at 40.5%. Bexley and Bromley, won by the Conservatives, had the highest percentage of registered voters: 48% of those registered.
