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There are 11 mayors being elected.

There are contests for London mayor, nine Combined Authority mayors and for Salford City mayor.

Ballots are now closed and votes are being counted.

Four results came in on Friday, with the rest expected at various times throughout today.

Results today are expected to begin with the Liverpool City Region at around midday, and running through until around 10pm for results of the London mayor race.

Below are the contests in order of when they are expected to declare results. Some are newly created mayoralties voting for the first time.

  • Tees Valley, Conservative Ben Houchen re-elected
  • York and North Yorkshire, Labour’s David Skaith elected
  • North East, Labour’s Kim McGuinness elected
  • East Midlands, Labour’s Claire Ward elected
  • Liverpool City Region, results expected Saturday at around 12pm
  • South Yorkshire, results expected Saturday at around 1pm
  • Greater Manchester, results expected Saturday at around 2pm
  • West Midlands, results expected Saturday at around 2.15pm
  • West Yorkshire, results expected Saturday at around 3.30pm
  • Salford, results expected Saturday at around 7pm
  • London, results expected Saturday at around 10pm

This year’s mayoral elections are being conducted under the first past the post electoral system for the first time.

The map below shows which mayoral candidates have won in their area by political party and will fill in as results are declared.

See below for more detailed breakdowns of results for each race as they come in.

The authority includes Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees local council areas.

The area covered includes Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire counties and the unitary council areas of Derby and Nottingham.

This jurisdiction includes the two unitary councils of North Yorkshire and York City.

The jurisdiction includes the metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland as well as the Northumberland and Durham unitary councils.

Local council areas included are Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral.

The area includes Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield boroughs.

The authority includes Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan local council areas.

The jurisdiction includes Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton metropolitan districts.

The area comprises the metropolitan boroughs of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.

Salford City is also part of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, so people there voted in two races.

Electors are across the Greater London area.

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“I hope I survive in my next job for at least half that period”, the Financial Times reported him as saying – with a smile.

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This is somewhat problematic.

As you now have a government which – after being elected on the promise to restore high standards – appears to be admitting that previous indiscretions can be overlooked if the cause is important enough.

Package that up with other scandals that have resulted in departures – Louise Haigh, Tulip Siddiq, Angela Rayner – and you start to get a stink that becomes hard to shift.

But more than that, the events of the last week again demonstrate an apparent lack of ability in government to see round corners and deal with crises before they start knocking lumps out of the Prime Minister.

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‘Had I known then, what I know now, I’d have never appointed him’ Starmer said.

Remember, for many the cardinal sin here was not necessarily the original appointment of Mandelson (while eyebrows were raised at the time, there was nowhere near the scale of outrage we’ve had in the last week with many career diplomats even agreeing the with logic of the choice) but the fact that Sir Keir walked into PMQs and gave the ambassador his full throated backing when it was becoming clear to many around Westminster that he simply wouldn’t be able to stay in post.

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But good process doesn’t always align with good politics.

Something this barrister-turned-politician may now be finding out the hard way.

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