{"id":49815,"date":"2021-05-09T00:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49815"},"modified":"2021-05-09T00:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T23:44:28","slug":"sadiq-khan-wins-second-term-as-london-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/sadiq-khan-wins-second-term-as-london-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan wins second term as London Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49816\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Sadik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Sadik.jpg 779w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Sadik-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Sadik-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/>Sadiq Khan has been elected as mayor of London for a second term, following a victory that was less emphatic than predicted after a late increase in support for his Conservative opponent. Labour incumbent Mr Khan polled 1,206,034 votes compared with 977,601 for his Tory challenger. This gave Mr Khan a majority of 228,433, well down on the record mayoral 315,529 majority he achieved in first gaining election to City Hall five years ago. His total vote haul \u2013 after first and second preferences were combined \u2013 was more than 100,000 fewer than his 1,310,143 haul in 2016.<br \/>\nIn his victory speech on Saturday night, Khan pledged to build a \u201cbetter and brighter future\u201d for the capital following the pandemic. \u201cI want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cI am deeply humbled by the trust Londoners have placed in me to continue leading the greatest city on Earth.<br \/>\n\u201cI promise to strain every sinew, help build a better and brighter future for London, after the dark days of the pandemic and to create a greener, fairer and safer city for all Londoners, to get the opportunities they need to fulfil their potential.<br \/>\n\u201cI am proud to have won an overwhelming mandate today.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you London. It\u2019s the absolute honour of my life to serve the city I love for another three years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave no stone unturned to get our city back on its feet.<\/p>\n<p>A brighter future is possible, and we\u2019ll deliver it together. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kwA1awEten\">pic.twitter.com\/kwA1awEten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SadiqKhan\/status\/1391152806883639297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/sadiq-khan-wins-second-term-as-london-mayor\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiq Khan has been elected as mayor of London for a second term, following a victory that was less emphatic than predicted after a late increase in support for his Conservative opponent. Labour incumbent Mr Khan polled 1,206,034 votes compared with 977,601 for his Tory challenger. This gave Mr Khan a majority of 228,433, well &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Mr Khan polled 12,06,034 votes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49818,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions\/49818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}