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Dan Whelan The party suffered damaging losses in Thursday’s elections, particularly in Oldham and Stockport, but held firm in Liverpool, Manchester and Salford and even managed to increase its majority in Sefton. Fielding out  Oldham’s leader was usurped in Failsworth West by Failsworth Independent Party candidate Mark Wilkinson by a margin of fewer than 200 votes and, while Labour still holds a majority in Oldham, the party will now have to choose a new leader from its ranks.  Said Fiel...

BBC News Published image captionMs Anderson said she would be "governed" by her values during her tenure The first black woman to lead a major UK city said she was "not frightened" by the task ahead, as she took charge of a troubled authority. Signing the oath of office to begin her tenure, she said she was "relatively relaxed" about the role. The authority has been under scrutiny since police began investigating building and development contracts. Ms Anderson was selected as Labour candidate a...

Labour bags 10 of 13 mayoral elections across England Top Story May 10, 2021 LONDON: Labour has dominated the mayoral elections, claiming 10 of the 13 posts being contested in cities and metropolitan regions across England. The Tories have won two of the contests so far, and West Yorkshire, which will be electing a mayor for the first time this year, was yet to return a result. Labour’s winners include Sadiq Khan, who described being re-elected for London as “the absolute honour of my lif...

Labour has dominated the mayoral elections, claiming 10 of the 13 posts being contested in cities and metropolitan regions across England. The Tories have won two of the contests so far, and West Yorkshire, which will be electing a mayor for the first time this year, is yet to return a result. Labour’s winners include Sadiq Khan, who described being re-elected for London as “the absolute honour of my life”, and pledged to “build a better and brighter future” for the city during his se...

Labour has dominated the mayoral elections, claiming 11 of the 13 posts being contested in cities and metropolitan regions across England. Former Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin MP became the final Labour candidate to win a post on Sunday evening, becoming the first mayor for West Yorkshire. Labour’s winners include Sadiq Khan, who described being re-elected for London as “the absolute honour of my life”, and pledged to “build a better and brighter future” for the city during h...

Labour protect their majority on Liverpool Council as opposition struggle to make inroads The election only saw three losses for the ruling group despite a slew of damning revelations about the way parts of Liverpool Council has been run 22:03, 7 MAY 2021 Labour stemmed losses within Liverpool Council and retained the mayoralty. Here, mayor-elect Joanne Anderson celebrates. (Image: Jason Roberts photography) Liverpool and Merseyside face a vital day as election results come in - get the inside ...

Tories gain control of Northumberland, Harlow, Redditch and Nuneaton & Bedworth councils in big wins Labour suffered a series of defeats across the country in the local elections, including in its heartlands   Conservatives gain councillors won in usually left-wing stalwart wards including in Sunderland and Tyneside  The Tories, Lib Dems and Greens all made significant gains in several seats as Labour went backwards Liverpool has elected its first black female mayor as Labour held on to the...

Labour’s Steve Rotheram has won a clear victory to retain his role as Liverpool City Region’s metro mayor. The incumbent’s first round win in the contest, which was delayed by a year by the pandemic, provided some good news for Labour following a bleak set of results in its traditional heartlands yesterday. Mr Rotheram won 58.3% of first preference votes, with the Conservative candidate Jade Marsden second on 19.6%. His victory came after Labour needed to rely on second preference votes t...

Local election results 2021 live: Liverpool City Region Mayor and Police Commissioner declarations as they happen Voters across Liverpool, Wirral, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Halton will be counted today as two more key election results are announced We are live once again with more crucial local election results from across the Liverpool City Region. She has made history as the first black woman to be elected as leader of a major UK city. We also saw council votes across our city region, w...

Mayor of Liverpool live election results as they happen The race to be the new leader of Liverpool is a tight one - follow the live results as we get them 05:00, 7 MAY 2021 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now As our citys new Mayor is decided - get the Echo newsletter for the biggest storiesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe for free When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used...