Bristol Mayor election result: Marvin Rees re-elected
It is the second big win for Labour in the region today
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Marvin Rees has been re-elected Mayor of Bristol for a second term.
After two rounds of counting he beat Green Candidate Sandy Hore-Ruthven by 13,613 votes.
Mr Rees retained his position of city mayor for Labour as did London Mayor Sadiq Khan, but the party performed poorly elsewhere following Thursdays elecions, losing the Hartlepool parliamenetary by-election and many council seats.
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Marvin Rees has been re-elected Mayor of Bristol, and he concluded his victory speech by talking about his brother.
Martin Luther Walker, from St Werburgh s, died unexpectedly aged 41 towards the end of last year and was described as an unbelievably gifted rapper and poet who had the biggest smile and even bigger heart .
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It has been a long weekend, but we now have all the results from Thursday s local elections.
Voters went to the polls in Bristol and beyond on May 6 in what was dubbed Super Thursday, one of the biggest sets of local elections for many years.
On Friday evening the race to become Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner was won by Conservative Mark Shelford.
On Saturday afternoon, it was declared that Dan Norris had been elected the next Combined Authority Mayor for the West of England (WECA) and it was later announced that Marvin Rees had been re-elected as the Mayor of Bristol.
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