MAYORAL RESULTS

There were six regional and metropolitan mayoral elections held on Thursday, including two new posts - Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire.  Labour were defending the four existing posts and successfully fought off strong Reform challenges in three of them.  Labour narrowly beat Reform by just a few hundred votes in both Doncaster and North Tyneside.  The Conservatives scored a gain from Labour in Cambridgeshire, which at the time of writing is the only piece of good news for the Tories on a torrid day.

Having wreaked devastating damage on the Tories on county councils across England, Reform UK took both of the new mayoral posts.  Ex-Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns triumphed for Reform in Greater Lincolnshire, while former Team GB boxer Luke Campbell became the first mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.

Here are the results in full.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Paul Bristow (Con) 60,243 (28.4%)

Ryan Coogan (Ref) 49,647 (23.4%)

Anna Smith (Lab) 42,671 (20.1%)

Lorna Dupré (LDm) 41,611 (19.6%)

Bob Ensch (Grn) 18,255 (8.6%)

Con GAIN from Lab

Doncaster

Ros Jones (Lab) 23,805 (32.6%) 

Alexander Jones (Ref) 23,107 (31.6%)

Nick Fletcher (Con) 18,982 (26.0%)

Julie Buckley (Grn) 2,449 (3.4%)

Andrew Walmsley (Yrks) 1,164 (1.6%)

David Bettney (SDP) 929 (1.3%)

Mihai Melenciuc (LDm) 895 (1.2%)

Frank Calladine (BDm) 448 (0.6%)

Ahsan Jamil (WPB) 434 (0.6%)

Andy Hiles (TUS) 393 (0.5%)

Richie Vallance (Ind) 245 (0.3%)

Doug Wright (Ind) 157 (0.2%)

Lab HOLD

Greater Lincolnshire

Andrea Jenkyns (Ref) 104,133 (42.0%)

Rob Waltham (Con) 64,585 (26.1%)

Jason Stockwood (Lab) 30,384 (12.3%)

Marianne Overton (Ind) 19,911 (8.0%)

Sally Horscroft (Grn) 15,040 (6.1%)

Trevor Young (LDm) 13,728 (5.5%)

Ref WIN (new post)

Hull & East Yorkshire

Luke Campbell (Ref) 48,491 (35.8%)

Mike Ross (LDm) 37,510 (27.7%)

Anne Handley (Con) 21,393 (15.8%)

Margaret Pinder (Lab) 18,568 (13.7%)

Kerry Harrison (Grn) 5,049 (3.7%)

Rowan Halstead (Yrks) 4,372 (3.2%)

Ref WIN (new post)

North Tyneside

Karen Clark (Lab) 16,230 (30.2%)

John Falkenstein (Ref) 15,786 (29.4%)

Liam Bones (Con) 11,017 (20.5%)

Chloe-Louise Reilly (Grn) 3,980 (7.4%)

John Appleby (LDm) 3,453 (6.4%)

Cath Davis (Ind) 1,780 (3.3%)

Martin Uren (Ind) 1,460 (2.7%)

Lab HOLD

West of England

Helen Godwin (Lab) 51,197 (25.0%)

Arron Banks (Ref) 45,252 (22.1%)

Mary Page (Grn) 41,094 (20.0%)

Steve Smith (Con) 34,092 (16.6%)

Oli Henman (LDm) 28,711 (14.0%)

Ian Scott (Ind) 4,682 (2.3%)

Lab HOLD