Thank you, London.

Absolutely thrilled to have been picked as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Newton Abbot at the next general election!

The Tories have crashed the economy and after 14 years of chaos working families in Newton Abbot are paying the price.

Let's get Britain's future back! 🌹

🚨 BREAKING: The Tories have LOST the West Midlands Mayoral Election to Labour

🔴 LAB: 225,590 (37.8%)
🔵 CON: 224,082 (37.5%)
⚪️ INDP: 69,621 (11.7%)
🟣 RFM: 34,471 (5.8%)
🟢 GRN: 31,036 (5.2%)
🟠 LDEM: 12,176 (2.0%)

Turnout: 29.8%

Labour's Richard Parker is elected

As per last year, final deployment of resources and activists by Labour HQ spot on and asking people to go to West Midlands made the critical difference there.

Yerse

The Labour Party organisers: you are the absolute business 💪❤️

🌹 Breaking: The Labour Party source says the new mayor of the West Midlands will be Richard Parker!

Well done to members who helped make history if correct.

Fulll results/analysis shortly:

@richparkerlab #LocalElections 2024 #LocalElections #mayorelections
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'This is the biggest ever margin of victory in a mayoral election. It’s a vote for building more council homes, delivering free school meals and a greener London.'

London Labour officials on the historic victory by Sadiq Khan - more comments here:

labourlist.org/2024/05/mayor-…

Congratulations Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 for running an incredible campaign and securing an amazing victory.

The West Midlands has voted for change.

A well-placed source tells LabourList the same - what an amazing result to cap off incredible results for Labour!

🌹 Breaking: The Labour Party source says the new mayor of the West Midlands will be Richard Parker!

Well done to members who helped make history if correct.

Fulll results/analysis shortly:

@richparkerlab #LocalElections 2024 #LocalElections #mayorelections
labourlist.org/2024/05/mayor-…

A growing Pride of Labour Mayors. 🦁 🌹

So proud of all of you. ♥️

Birmingham metro area 216k votes
Lab Parker 80,251
Con Street 66,296

Could be a few more hours before we get a result in the West Midlands Mayoral race, with a full recount taking place in Coventry.

But at the moment, Labour are feeling more optimistic than the Conservatives.

Everyone agrees it’s very close.

'This is the biggest ever margin of victory in a mayoral election. It’s a vote for building more council homes, delivering free school meals and a greener London.'

London Labour officials on the historic victory by Sadiq Khan - more comments here:

labourlist.org/2024/05/mayor-…

'Labour is winning most in the areas where it needs to win the most', says Josh Simons.

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Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips MP says the results are 'varied across the different areas' in the West Midlands.

'I very much hope that we can pull it off here but it is incredibly close'.

Follow updates on our liveblog:

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Andy Burnham and Tracy Brabin have been emphatically re-elected as mayors of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, following victories for other Labour mayors on Saturday.

Full results and analysis:

labourlist.org/2024/05/greate…

Congrats to Sadiq Khan!

The final results saw Khan win 1,088,225 votes to Tory rival Susan Hall's 811,518 (BBC).

More details here:

labourlist.org/2024/05/london…

Here are the constituency-level results for Sadiq Khan so far:

#LondonMayoralElection

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