Labour’s Sadiq Khan has won a second term as London’s mayor, beating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey.
He won 55.2% of the popular vote, after entering a run-off with Mr Bailey when neither managed to secure a majority in the first round of voting.
The former MP became the first Muslim mayor of an EU capital city when he was first elected to the role in 2016. Mr Khan’s closest rival was Mr Bailey, who received 44.8% of the first and second-round votes.
Mr Bailey increased the Conservative vote share by 1.6%. He said he had been written off by pollsters, journalists and other politicians, adding: But Londoners didn’t write me off.
The Green Party’s Sian Berry came third, while the Liberal Democrats’ Luisa Porritt was fourth. The Lib Dems lost their deposit, as Ms Porritt failed to win more than 5% of the vote.
Mr Khan was seen as the favourite throughout the campaign, with some pollsters predicting he would win more than half of the first-round votes. The 51-year-old failed to reach his record-setting vote total of 2016, but won with a 228,000-vote majority.
Speaking after the results were announced, Mr Khan said: I will always be a mayor for all Londoners, working to improve the lives of every single person in this city.
The results of the elections around the UK shows our country, and even our city, remains deeply divided. The scars of Brexit have yet to heal. A crude culture war is pushing us further apart.