Labour party candidate comfortably outruns Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith, becoming the city's first Muslim mayor.
The British Labour party’s Sadiq Khan has been elected as London mayor by comfortably outrunning of his nearest rival.
The Labour party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn congratulated Khan on his victory on Friday evening.
Khan picked up 44 percent of first preference votes to Conservative Zac Goldsmith’s 35 percent. The Labour candidate then picked up enough second preference votes to cross the 50 percent threshold, with 57 percent to Goldsmith’s 43 overall.
Huge numbers congratulated Khan and expressed pride in the UK’s diversity, but for others it was more evidence of the supposed Islamisation of the West. This despite Khan’s progressive voting record that has put him at odds with religious conservatives.