Sadiq Khan has been elected Mayor of London in a landslide, winning 1.4 million votes, a record in the city and the largest personal mandate, excepting the French presidency. T=The Tooting MP has won City Hall back for Labour after eight years of Conservative rule.
At the time of writing, Khan df the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, at 45.5 per cent to 33.9 per cent, in what could be described as a landslide victory. The Green candidate Sian Berry is third with 6 per cent of the vote, followed by the Lib Dems (4.4 per cent) and Ukip (3.5 per cent). Turnout has been higher than expected, at 44.8 per cent – the highest turnout in a London mayoral election since Boris Johnson won in 2008, when it was 45 per cent (in 2012, it was 38 per cent).
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