Labour's Marvin Rees has been re-elected as the mayor of Bristol.
It will be the second term for Mr Rees, who made history in 2016 when he became first elected mayor of Black African heritage of a major European city.
Mr Rees won with 59,276 votes, beating the Green Party's Sandy Hore-Ruthven by more than 13,000 votes, to victory. There was a 41.15% turnout (140,599 verified votes) overall.
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Seven of the nine candidates were eliminated in the first round, leaving Mr Rees and Mr Hore-Ruthven through to second round count.
His victory will mean he will run the city for another three years. He beat the following candidates to take the job:
The Green Party's Sandy Hore-Ruthven, 45,663
- Tom Baldwin, of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), 3,194
- Robert Clarke, the Candidate for Reform 海角视频, formerly the Brexit Party, 806
- Pub landlord Sean Donnelly, 4,956
- Liberal Democrats’ Caroline Gooch, 15,517
- Independent John Langley, 1,528
- 23-year-old drama student Oska Shaw, 389
- Conservative candidate Alastair Watson, 25,816
It is only the third-ever election for Bristol city’s directly elected mayor, with independent George Ferguson being the first in 2012.
The news follows another win for Labour on Saturday, with the party's Dan Norris being elected the next metro mayor for the West of England.
Mr Rees, who was born and brought up in Bristol, studied economic history and politics at Swansea University and has a masters in political theory and government, as well as a masters in global economic development, according to Business Live's sister site .
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He entered the political world having graduated from Operation Black Vote and Labour Future Candidate programmes.
He has previously worked with international development agency Tearfund and in the US with Sojourners - a Washington DC-based social justice organisation. He also worked with BBC Bristol as a broadcast journalist.
Mr Rees was elected in 2016 after pledging 2,000 new homes a year – 800 of them affordable – by 2020.
While unable to meet his election promise on affordable homes - there were fewer than 350 new affordable homes built in Bristol each year for the last four years, according to Bristol Live - Mr Rees came close to hitting the broader housing target.
Between 1,350 and 1,994 homes were completed each year in Bristol in the four years from 2016/17 to 2019/20. He has pledged to build 2,000 new homes each year, with at least 1,000 affordable, by 2024, if he secured a second term.
Alongside housing, Mr Rees is focusing on jobs and opportunities for young people as his key election pledges.
During the last five years, his administration faced numerous challenges, including ongoing austerity, the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit.
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Speaking about what he has achieved during his first term in office, it says on Mr Rees' blog: "Bringing fairness to the city council, he has achieved accredited Living Wage Employer status, and introduced Ban the Box.
"He led the successful bid to bring Channel 4 to Bristol and is leading the city’s response to both the climate and ecological emergencies.
"Building a compassionate city, he has kept all children’s centres and libraries open and led city-wide campaigns on period poverty and child hunger."
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