Sadiq Khan Set To Be Re-Elected London Mayor

Sadiq Khan is on track to be re-elected as Mayor of London for a third term.

The Labour mayor is consistently ahead of the Conservative candidate Susan Hall, with remaining votes in parts of the city still being counted. 

Khan, who has been mayor since 2016, has won a majority in all of the contests that have been declared so far, including in West Central and South West, where the Conservatives took the lead on first preference votes last time around. 

He has also taken the lead in Greenwich and Lewisham, Merton and Wandsworth, North East, and Enfield and Haringey. 

Turnout in the contest was 40.5 per cent, according to figures released on Friday evening, with the highest turnout recorded in Bexley and Bromley at 48.38 per cent. 

The turnout is down slightly on the last mayoral election in 2021, when it was around 42 per cent. That contest had been delayed for a year due to the Covid pandemic. 

The mayoral elections this week were the first run under the first past the post system after changes brought in by the Electoral Reform Act 2022, and were also the first mayoral elections since the introduction of mandatory voter ID. 

Labour had been concerned about the impact the changes could have on their election, although polling had consistently suggested that Khan was in front. 

In his manifesto, Khan pledged that he would work to make his universal free school meals programme permanent, and would freeze Transport for London fares until at least 2025. 

He also promised he would build 40,000 new council homes by the end of the decade and said that he would work with a Labour government if they win the general election to recruit and train 1,300 more neighbourhood police officers. 

Hall had pledged to rescind the expansion of the