Liverpool City Region Re-Elects Rotheram with Increased Vote Share

Labour's Steve Rotheram has won his third successive term as mayor of Liverpool City Region.

Mr Rotheram, who was first elected in 2017, beat his nearest rival by more than 156,000 votes and increased his vote share by 9.7 points.

Conservative Jade Marsden was second in the poll, narrowly ahead of the Green Party's Tom Crane.

In his victory speech, the mayor said the region's voters had "hollered at the top of their voices" to tell the government "enough is enough" and urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call a general election.
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Mr Rotheram secured 183,932 votes, ahead of Ms Marsden, who received 27,708, and Mr Crane, who got 26,417.

Liberal Democrats' Rob McAllister-Bell was fourth with 21,366 votes and independent Ian Smith came last with 11,032.

Accepting the victory, Mr Rotheram said the people of Liverpool City Region had "just spoken, they have hollered loud and clear".

"They have two messages - to the government, 'enough is enough', and locally, 'Labour is delivering'," he said.

"The road to Downing Street runs through transformative Labour administrations in local and regional government.

"With Labour in Westminster, we will get to see what real devolution is like, not the limited decentralisation we are seeing now."

He added that Mr Sunak was "squatting in Downing Street" and needed to call a general election.

This was the first time people in the region have voted for a mayor using first-past-the-post method.

Previously, the supplementary vote system was used where voters could pick a first and second choice of candidate.

The turnout was 23.7% with 272,721 votes cast.

Source BBC