The British Labor Party claimed victory in the London council elections. With the results of four of the city’s 14 neighborhoods already determined, the current mayor, who is running for re-election, already had a considerable lead over the Conservative Party candidate, Susan Hall, with more than double the votes: 350,453 votes for Khan, 164,423.
The idea that this election would be much tighter than anyone could have predicted seems not to have been confirmed at the polls, with the current president improving his results in relation to the 2021 election and on his way to being re-elected for a third term easily, the This is the first time this has happened: both Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, his predecessors, only served two terms.
Labor even managed to win West Central (Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster) at the Tories, with an advantage of more than 11 thousand votes. In 2021, the Conservative candidate, Shaun Bailey, had beaten Khan in this constituency by more than 2200 votes.
“If the Conservatives were getting their hopes up last night they must be feeling very disappointed” with Sadiq Khan on course for a comfortable victory in the London mayoral race,” political scientist John Curtice told the BBC.
