{"id":49939,"date":"2022-05-06T19:52:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49939"},"modified":"2022-05-06T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:28:17","slug":"lutfur-rahman-elected-mayor-of-tower-hamlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/lutfur-rahman-elected-mayor-of-tower-hamlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutfur Rahman elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1930\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lutfur-Rahman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lutfur-Rahman1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lutfur-Rahman1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/>Lutfur Rahman has been elected as the Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets following local elections that took place on Thursday 5 May. Lutfur Rahman of Aspire received a total of 40,804 votes, followed by John Biggs of The Labour Party who received 33,487 votes. The turnout for the Mayoral election was 41.92% per cent.<br \/>\nWill Tuckley, Returning Officer for Tower Hamlets and the council\u2019s chief executive, said: First of all I\u2019d like to congratulate Lutfur Rahman on his election victory and I look forward to helping him deliver on his priorities as Mayor for the people of Tower Hamlets.<br \/>\nRunning elections involves an incredible amount of hard work by our Elections Team, the Metropolitan Police and many others and I would like to thank everyone who has been involved for working so diligently from the early planning stages, through to polling day and the count today.<br \/>\n\u201cOur work on the 2022 elections is not quite complete as we look forward to tomorrow\u2019s count for the council\u2019s 45 borough ward councillors.\u201d<\/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\/lutfur-rahman-elected-mayor-of-tower-hamlets\/\" 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>Lutfur Rahman has been elected as the Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets following local elections that took place on Thursday 5 May. Lutfur Rahman of Aspire received a total of 40,804 votes, followed by John Biggs of The Labour Party who received 33,487 votes. The turnout for the Mayoral election was 41.92% per cent. Will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939"}],"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=49939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49941,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939\/revisions\/49941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}