Marvin Rees re-elected as Bristol mayor
The Labour candidate beat his closest rival by around 14,000 votes
Marvin Rees has secured a second term as the Mayor of Bristol, which he has vowed will be his last.
The Labour candidate beat closest rival Sandy Hore-Ruthven from the Greens by around 14,000 votes.
“I didn’t think it was a big secret, I always said I was going to do two terms. Then you have to give the city space to breathe and to reinvent itself.
“I think if you stay in a job too long you become a blocker on change and dynamism.
“My job is to work of the city irrespective of people’s backgrounds.
“It is why we have rallied around the idea of Bristol being the city of hope it doesn’t matter where you are on the economic ladder we all need hope and we can all get up in the morning with a belief that there is a culture, a group of organisations and a city leadership which wants today to be better than yesterday.”
Results of the stage one count were:
Tom Baldwin - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition - 3,194 votes
Robert Vernon Clarke - Reform UK – 806 votes
Sean Patrick Donnelly – Independent - 4,956 votes
Dr. Caroline Gooch - Liberal Democrat - 15,517 votes
Sandy Hore-Ruthven - Green Party - 36,331 votes
John Langley – Independent - 1,528 votes
Marvin Jonathan Rees - Labour Party - 50,510 votes
Oska Damon Shaw – 389 votes
Alastair Peter Lindsay Watson - Conservative Party - 25,816 votes
Results of the stage two count were:
Sandy Hore-Ruthven - Green Party – 9,322
Marvin Jonathan Rees – Labour Party – 8,766