Tag: metro mayors

  • 2021 Metro Mayor Elections: Labour narrowly gained from the Conservatives while losing to “Did Not Vote”

    2021 Metro Mayor Elections: Labour narrowly gained from the Conservatives while losing to “Did Not Vote”

    The eight Combined Authority (“Metro”) Mayor elections in May 2021 were some of Labour’s most successful of the cycle. Despite poor results elsewhere, Labour managed to pick up two mayoralties directly from the Conservatives (West of England and Cambridgeshire) and a third newly created position (West Yorkshire). The gains ended up being overshadowed, partly because…

  • Five Lessons from the Metro Mayor Elections

    Back in April, I tried to consider what our expectations of the 8 combined authority (metro) mayoral elections should be. As I said at the time, these weren’t meant to be predictions, but an attempt to think about what a “baseline” result would look like, based solely on national polls and general election results. On…

  • Labour stands to gain in the metro mayor elections

    As May 21st’s ‘Super Thursday’ elections come into view, all eyes are on whether Nicola Sturgeon will secure her majority for independence, and whether Labour will cling on in Hartlepool. But Super Tuesday also features 8 of England’s biggest electoral tests, in the form of combined authority mayoral elections. These elections will give individual politicians…