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May 7, 2022 · Croydon's Conservatives have bucked the trend in London by winning the borough's first mayoralty. ... Mr Perry won 5,199 second preference votes in the run-off, but started with more first ...
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May 7, 2022 · Democracy was kept waiting while council officials struggled with their abacuses. By our sleep-deprived political editor, WALTER CRONXITE. Jason Perry has been declared the first elected Mayor of Croydon, after a borough-wide vote sent a message to the local Labour Party, which had bankrupted the council, that plausible deniability as a campaign strategy was not enough to win back public trust ...
May 7, 2022 · The results for the election of the first-ever directly elected Mayor of Croydon 2022 came in overnight. Jason Perry, a Conservative Party candidate, won with 38,612 votes, followed closely by Val ...
May 7, 2022 · READ MORE: Croydon elects Tory candidate Jason Perry as its first mayor by just 589 votes Boris Johnson's party has suffered heavy losses all over the UK following the May local elections (Image: PA) Perry, who became the South London borough's first ever directly elected mayor after more than 10 hours of counting, who won 33,413 votes compared to the 31,352 received by Labour's Val Shawcross.
May 7, 2022 · The Conservative candidate won with 38,612 votes compared to Shawcross’ 38,023. A tearful Perry said: “We said all along that Croydon wanted change, I believe that Croydon has voted for change ...
May 9, 2022 · The Tories have taken the Croydon mayoralty from Labour, in the latest major upset in the 2022 local election. Jason Perry is set to become the first ever Conservative directly-elected mayor in ...
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Having won but also lost seats in some boroughs, Labour now hold 1,153 in total (a net +30 from 2018). The Conservatives now control six boroughs (a net minus one), having lost the abovementioned three, but winning Harrow from Labour and narrowly winning Croydon’s first-ever election for a Mayor with executive powers, though elections for Croydon’s council left it under No Overall Control.
