BBC : Labour’s Sadiq Khan has won a second term as London’s mayor, beating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey.
He won 69% of second-preference votes in a run-off against Mr Bailey, after failing to secure a majority in the first round of voting.
Mr Khan was seen as the favourite throughout the campaign, with some pollsters predicting he would win more than half of the first-round votes.
The former MP became the first Muslim mayor of an EU capital city when he was elected to the role in 2016.
The 51-year-old failed to reach his record-setting vote total of 2016, but won with a 228,000-vote majority. (BBC)
Thank you London. It’s the absolute honour of my life to serve the city I love for another three years.
I’ll leave no stone unturned to get our city back on its feet.
A brighter future is possible, and we’ll deliver it together. pic.twitter.com/kwA1awEten
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) May 8, 2021