Local elections 2021: Liverpool s opposition miss huge opportunity as Labour stay on top
Lib Dems and Greens will be disappointed as they failed to really capitalise on once in a generation opportunity
Lib Dem boss Richard Kemp will have wanted to do better in today s votes (Image: Jason Roberts photography)
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Lib Dem boss Richard Kemp will have wanted to do better in today s votes (Image: Jason Roberts photography)
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If this was a normal election, Liverpool s opposition parties might be quite content with how today played out.
But it wasn t. After all, it is not very often that the serving Mayor of a city - a man who is synonymous with the ruling party - is arrested and forced to withdraw from an election.
Liverpool Mayoral election race goes to second round of voting
Tight race sees second round of voting take place to decide city s new leader
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Counting taking place at the Wavertree Tennis Centre
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The race to be the new Mayor of Liverpool has gone to a second round of voting - with only two candidates remaining.
Dan Whelan
Joanne Anderson has been elected to lead the city council, beating off competition from independent candidate Stephen Yip to replace Joe Anderson who resigned from the post after his arrest last December.
Joanne Anderson, who is no relation to the former mayor, claimed victory with 46,493 votes compared to Yip’s 32,079.
“I am so proud and honoured to be the first black woman directly elected as mayor in the UK, and our city’s first-ever female leader.” Anderson said.
“Liverpool has always been a city of firsts, one that does things differently and that charters its own path. Today, we made history.”
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