WECA Winners - Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform
Helen Godwin (Labour) has won the contest for the West of England Combined Authority.
WECA is made of of three regions: Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
The winners in each region was: Bristol - Labour, BANES - Liberal Democrats, South Glos - Reform
Here are the voting results for each region.
And here are the number of votes.
The Candidates
From left to right (not in a political sense):
- Aaron Banks - Reform - he claimed that "Bristol is really corrupt"
- Steve Smith- Conservative - when he proposed to his wife she said she would "only marry him if he lived in Bristol"
- Helen Godwin - Labour - "My first priority is getting buses working better so people can get to work on time."
- Mary Page - Green - she is keen to look at how the authority invests in adult skills
- Oli Henman - Liberal Democrat - he wants to "create meaningful and quality" jobs in the green sector
- Ian Scott - Independent - he paid the £5,000 entrance fee out of his Post Office pension and with less than 5% of the vote he failed to get his deposit back
You can see the full report page on BU.
Other Voices
- John Langley - Has the Political Pendulum Finally Met Its Match?
- Hannah Miller - The stats behind the votes
- Bristol Cable - Meet the candidates (and the chaos)
- Mike Frost - "This is petty bureaucracy gone mad. It is the rot of our democracy."
- Thom Oliver - Do we now have a mayor without a mandate?
- Ian Simpson - Are we going to see Mayors elected with even lower levels of public support in 2025?
- John Curtice - The map that shows Reform's triumph was much more than a protest vote
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