In England , some local election held in May 2024, one of them was Mayor election in London. This was to choose one person for the seat , there were four major candidate named as Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall, Rob Blackie and Zoe Garbett Green, there were eight more candidates. Well, one fact for this election is that ,earlier electoral system which was used for this was Supplementary system where voters could vote for two candidate at a same time but had to give preference , then if first preference member is eliminated then second preference is taken as value if that second person is still a candidate and has not been eliminated or withdrawn. Like this , at last whoever gets most majority of votes ,the candidate wins. But this year 2024, the Mayoral election system was First Past The Post where each voter can only vote for one candidate, and one with the most number of votes wins the seat. The second fact is the term of the Mayor is only 4 years.
The election took place on 2nd May 2024, and result was announced on 4th May 2024, where Sadiq Khan won with more than 1 Lakh votes and Susan Hall came second ,she received more than 800,000 votes. Sadiq Khan won this and is now third time Mayor of London. Let us know some top things about him-
He is Born in Tooting which is in London itself. He is now 53 years old
His grandparents were from India, they were from Lucknow, during partition of India they moved to Pakistan in 1947 and then in 1968 they shifted to England.
His favorite sports are boxing, football
He was the Member of Parliament of Tooting till 2016, and then became Mayor of London in the same year , from 2016 to till now he is the Mayor.
He was in the list of top 100 influential people of the world in 2018
So, this was just another news coming from London where Mayoral election held and Sadiq Khan won the seat thrice. Read more on Top News coming from USA
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