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02.05.2024 - 22:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
People across London have cast their vote in the London mayoral election.
The vote took place simultaneously with elections to the London Assembly and some local council by-elections in the capital. The mayor of London is responsible for covering policing, transport, housing, planning, economic development, arts, culture and the environment with an annual budget of around £18 billion per year.
Mayors are typically elected for a period of four years, with no limit to the number of terms served. The candidates who stood in this year's mayoral election were incumbent Sadiq Khan (Labour), Susan Hall (Conservative), Rob Blackie (Lib Dem), Zoe Garbett (Green), Howard Cox (Reform UK), Natalie Campbell (Ind), Andreas Michli (Ind) and Count Binface.
READ: All the candidates standing in Greater Manchester local elections 2024
Following changes introduced in 2022, voting in the London mayoral election was done using the first-past-the-post system for the first time, replacing the supplementary vote system.
Polls closed at 10pm on Thursday, May 2. Constituency results of the London mayoral election will be declared first, at each of the 14 counts across the capital on Saturday, May 4.
A formal announcement of the overall result will be made at City Hall later in the day, with 1.30pm an estimate of when the overall result is likely to have become clear from the constituency results.
The results will show below when they have been announced.
The London mayoral election was held on the same day as the local elections, with more than 2,500 council seats up for grabs across 107 local authorities in England.
Mayoral elections took place in East Midland, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, North East, South Yorkshire, West
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