London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan won a record third term after easily defeating Conservative challenger Susan Hall on Saturday, May 4, British media said after all the capital's districts reported their results.
The son of Pakistani migrants and the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital when first elected in 2016, Khan, 53, becomes London's first leader to secure three terms since the post was created in 2000.
Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger Hall. He did particularly well in inner London but struggled in several outer boroughs. There had been frenzied speculation on Friday that the result would be closer than previously thought, but Khan's lead showed a swing from Conservative to Labour when compared with the previous mayoral election in 2021.