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Quote from The Sun: Keir Starmer faces fresh by-election woe after former Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin was voted in as mayor of West Yorkshire.
Labour MP Brabin will now have to stand down as Batley and Spen MP - triggering another by-election.
She received the most first and second preference votes, with a total of 310,923.
She beat second-place candidate – the Conservative’s Matt Robinson – by 101,786 votes.
Ms Brabin, who won the contest on her 60th birthday, becomes Labour’s 11th candidate to claim a mayoral post – after 13 elections in cities and metropolitan areas across England.
It comes after Boris Johnson spanked Sir Keir Starmer in “Super Thursday’s” elections — seizing the Red Wall jewel of Hartlepool and demolishing Labour across the country.
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Can the Tories do another Hartlepool?
The results at the 2019 election were:
Labour, Tracy Brabin – 22,594, 42.7 per cent Conservative, Mark Brooks – 19,069, 36.0 per cent Heavy Woollen District Independents, Paul Halloran – 6,432 12.2 per cent Liberal Democrats, John Lawson – 2,462, 4.7 per cent Brexit Party, Clive Minihan – 1,678, 3.2 per cent Green, Ty Akram – 692, 1.3 per cent.
Bookies odds are:
Conservatives - 1/4 Labour - 3/1 Heavy Woolen District - 33/1 Greens - 100/1 Lib Dems - 100/1 Northern Independence Party - 200/1
Figures from
National World
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