Joe Anderson has been re-elected as Liverpool Mayor following a comfortable victory at the mayoral election on 6 May.

The Labour MP secured 53% of the vote to see off his closest rival, Richard Kemp of the Liberal Democrats, by a significant margin.

Richard attracted 21% of the total votes, with Green Party candidate Tom Crone taking third place with 11%. Conservative hopeful Tony Caldeira ended up with less than 4% of the total votes.

Mayor Anderson became leader of Liverpool City Council’s Labour group in 2003 and headed up the local authority when his party gained control in May 2010.

He has since campaigned for the cabinet system of city government to be replaced by a directly-elected mayor, and aims to make Liverpool more self-sufficient during his second term.

Ahead of the 2016 Liverpool mayoral election, Mayor Anderson pledged to launch a bid to bring the Commonwealth Games to Liverpool and build new sustainable homes in the city.

With a second term as mayor now secured, the 58-year-old is expected to campaign to become Metro Mayor of the wider Liverpool City Region in 2017.

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