STORY
Voters have chosen six directly elected mayors in England as part of a major set of local elections that also included contests for thousands of council seats, alongside elections to the Scottish Parliament and Senedd.
The mayoral contests were held in Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Watford. Five of the six were in London, where every borough council seat was also up for election, making the results an important test of political strength in the capital. Watford also held a mayoral election alongside its borough council contests, with the results of the Mayoral elections being announced later today.
The candidates for election are:
Croydon
Rowenna Davis (Labour)
Ben Flook (Reform)
Ben Goldstone (TUSC)
Richard Howard (Lib Dem)
Jose Joseph (ND)
Jason Perry (Conservative)
Michael Pusey (TTIP)
Peter Underwood (Green)
Hackney
Vahid Almasi (Reform)
Zoe Garbett (Green)
Tareke Gregg (Conservative)
Eva Steinhardt (Lib Dem)
Caroline Woodley (Labour)
Lewisham
Jay Coward (TUSC)
Kayode Damali (Independent)
Amanda De Ryk (Labour)
Josh Matthews (Lib Dem)
Roger Mighton (Independent)
Pete Newman (Reform)
Liam Shrivastava (Green)
Sylbourne Sydial (Conservative)
Newham
Terri Bloore (Conservative)
Areeq Chowdhury (Green)
Clive Furness (Reform)
Forhad Hussain (Labour)
Kamran Malik (Communities)
Mehmood Mirza (Newham)
Bharath Swamy (CPA)
Laura Willoughby (Lib Dem)
Tower Hamlets
Zami Ali (THI)
John Bullard (Reform)
Abdul Hannan (Lib Dem)
Sirajul Islam (Labour)
Hirra Khan Adeogun (Green)
Terence McGrenera (Independent)
Dominic Nolan (Conservative)
Hugo Pierre (TUSC)
Lutfur Rahman (Aspire)
Watford
Ryan Bonar (Independent)
Mark Dixon (Reform)
Abdul Laskar (Conservative)
Jake Mitchell (Green)
Keith Morgan (Labour)
Ketankumar Pipaliya (Voice)
Peter Taylor (Lib Dem)