Labour claims West Midlands mayoral race after Sadiq Khan wins third term in London – live | Politics

Rishi Sunak would have been relieved when Ben Houchen was declared the winner of the Tees Valley mayoral election, but he can’t hide the fact that it was a very poor election result, writes former prime minister Theresa May Garvin’s chief of staff Barwell.

Council elections are difficult to interpret – there are a host of local factors. The best thing to look at is what is known as the national equivalent vote share. The BBC estimate at the time of writing has Labor on 34% and the Conservatives on 25%.

This tells us two important things about British politics. First – if we didn’t already know it – that the Tories are probably heading for defeat, and potentially a heavy one, in the general election later this year: 25% is as bad as they got at the nadir of John Major’s Government (David Cameron recovered from a similar low, but that was mid-term, not a few months before election day).

Despite Rishi Sunak’s best efforts, the party has actually regressed slightly in the last 12 months.

Sadiq Khan has been re-elected mayor of London with the shortest term since the post was created 24 years ago, analysis by the Electoral Reform Society shows.

The Labor politician won 43.8% of the vote, which was enough to secure him a third term under the new First Past the Post system.

Labor MP Ellie Reeves has just congratulated Richard Parker on his “amazing result and significant win” in the West Midlands.

Labor won three of the eight Police and Crime Commissioner elections announced on Saturday, winning Cheshire from the Conservatives and retaining the West Midlands and Merseyside.

The Conservatives comfortably held Hertfordshire and Dorset and narrowly won Warwickshire by just 306 votes, 0.26%, the Thames Valley by 2,343 (0.52%) and Wiltshire by 2,233 votes (1.79%).

Labor won nine PCCs from the Conservatives on Friday, as well as retaining five.

The party now has 17 PCCs, the same as the Conservatives, with Plaid Cymru retaining Dyfed-Powys.

There are two results to be announced on Sunday, in Kent and Sussex.

Labor is contesting the West Midlands mayoral election

With all 14 London Assembly constituencies declared, Labor had 10 seats, the Conservatives three and the Lib Dems one.

The Lib Dems claim they have won South West London and that Gareth Roberts has been elected to the London Assembly.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said: “The Lib Dems are going from strength to strength as the Conservatives go the way of the dinosaurs in south west London.

“It’s been a historic set of local election results for the Liberal Democrats and now we’re making more history here in London with Gareth Roberts AM newly elected.”

The West Midlands mayoral race will go down to the wire after a recount

Jessica Murray

In Cheshire, Labour’s Dan Price beat Conservative incumbent John Dwyer to become Police and Crime Commissioner.

Sadiq Khan’s victory speech on Saturday after his re-election as Mayor of London, winning a historic third term.

London mayoral candidate Earl Binface said “down with fascism, up with Syfax” after discovering he had beaten Britain First candidate Nick Scanlon.

He told reporters at the town hall: “It looks like I’ve beaten Britain First at the polls.

“Come on, you should be happy about that… Down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”

Labour’s West Midlands mayoral candidate Richard Parker polled almost 14,000 more votes than Andy Street in the Birmingham City Council area.

Parker received 80,251 votes in the city, followed by Street with 66,296 and a strong showing of 40,923 votes for pro-Gaza independent candidate Ahmed Yacoub.

In Walsall Street he received 24,735 votes, Parker 18,097 and Jacob 8,451.