Labour Party's Sadiq Khan re-elected as London mayor
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Sadiq Khan has been re-elected as Mayor of London for a second term after beating his closest rival with a vote share of 55.2% versus 44.8% in an election that was closer than expected. Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan, 51, defeated his Conservative Party rival, Shaun Bailey, after winning a total of 1,206,034 votes as against 977,601 when both first and second preference votes from Thursday's mayoral election were fully counted overnight.