In full: Formal declaration as Sadiq Khan wins third term as Mayor of London

The result of the London mayoral election formally declares Sadiq Khan's victory for a third term as Mayor of London.
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[@theshyguitarist4536]

My boy, Count Binface, outperforming the Britain First candidate 👌 That's what I like to see.

[@soundscape26]

That was amazing

[@robstewart1703]

🎉

[@rahbid121]

Poor Susan Hall, so bitter and full of hatred. Tut tut tut

[@Monica72215]

Corruption pure and simple.

[@nt300uk]

What is?

[@zzz22214]

I can't see how one of the most hated and unwanted business politicians in the UK wins again... Strange democracy and elections...

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

Be quiet with your nonsense.

[@soundscape26]

A bot is the most upvoted comment here. lmao

[@robstewart1703]

Only thing simple is your bullshit 😂

[@crumpetsbuttered]

London now deserves EVERYTHING thats coming its way, good luck and god bless.

[@joseph9074]

Lol

[@honeybunch6473]

They care about nothing other than "Muslim" - before country , town , security , safety or standard of life.

[@seanjones180]

Like most right wingers ​@@honeybunch6473

[@leesmusic1]

@@honeybunch6473and the left will vote left no matter what, even if everything they push is wrecking their livelihood.

[@alexandradacunha3221]

I knew it. Paid and bought for. Yes they will regret it. I am out of London .

[@applepye87]

It took me 26 minutes to notice the man with a bin on his head. 😅

[@soundscape26]

Count Binface... had more votes than the moron from the far right.

[@Mona-sw2jx]

Reading these comments is like delving into a cesspit.

[@soundscape26]

There's a lot of salt here, no doubt. 😄

[@robstewart1703]

Fash will be fash.

[@petek7822]

I thought everyone in London hated his guts? Not true it appears 🤔 Personally, I wouldn't have voted for him, if only because of Ulez. Burnham had the good sense to drop a similar idea in Greater Manchester.

[@madmanjoe1002]

No. Just less than half of London is actually londoners now.

[@TheKevswife]

It’s a fix.

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

All I ever heard was he was toast.

[@Looshfarmer]

They imported voters inclined to respond to left wing bribery. London doesn’t represent rest of the U.K. -it’s a soulless, crime ridden dystopia. It’s when the behavioural sink spills out and infects the rest of the country, it becomes everyone’s problem. It’s a Petrie dish for everything wrong with this country.

[@somethinglikeanonymous1773]

@@madmanjoe1002you mean white cockneys 😂

[@TheKevswife]

How can he build a safer London when he won’t tackle the knife crime.

[@stevo091]

Only more 🕌

[@firstname4865]

Safer from white people

[@ganndeber1621]

He is happy when knife crime drives out white people, he will never try and tackle it but he will set his police onto white St Georges day marchers

[@samnoor3145]

If the law of this country is not tough what can Sidiq khan do?? Criminals go to Jail gets the best out their life in prison and chilling out in few years then release from jail. Use your brain 🧠

[@ganndeber1621]

@@samnoor3145 He can tell the police to ignore it, that way white people leave London

[@crispynuggets9121]

The north needs independence

[@Merlin-gu9nz]

Sean Bean as King in the North maybe?

[@Zaphod-ef9yz]

In many ways, we already have it. Nobody 'down there' gives a toss a bout up here 😂

[@hectorcot597]

It's not just the North. The South West is in a similar position, along with most of the Midlands

[@Zaphod-ef9yz]

@hectorcot597 perhaps, but if South West means the likes of Plymouth and Cornwall then that's probably for the best, they are beautiful places. Midlands.. not been there for about twenty years but I believe most of it is trashed. I did laugh my head off when the Northern leg of HS2 got scrapped. I said to myself "ah yes.. nothing to see here guys, England is a city in London, not the other way around" peep peep said Thomas!! 😂

[@nt300uk]

Yeah, good luck - 20% of our money is used to fund the rest of the country. Can we keep it instead?

[@citizensnid3490]

Muslim vote ensures that Khan gets in

[@arshadkhalil8580]

So what's ur problem ?????

[@ZaydDepaor]

Muslims don't vote...only fake ones.

[@Freepalestine489]

Not muslims only. People from different countries in london..

[@hakz795]

So?

[@bear1245]

@@arshadkhalil8580 the slims are the problem 🍩

[@anon3903]

A sad day for London and the country.

[@firstname4865]

Can we defend ourselves like they say Palestine can???

[@AreJayCee]

Not sad for Scotland, speak for yourself.

[@firstname4865]

@@AreJayCee too many whites in scotland

[@johnmoore9862]

Better than Susan Hall.

[@Charles-qm1sm]

Go and rest my friend

[@270wsm6]

London is finished

[@270wsm6]

@@REL602 how is it my mess

[@I_am_the_happy_prince]

Londonistan has fallen

[@s-b6218]

Gammon

[@julieclonan2427]

​@@s-b6218No a Realist .

[@nicklindsey1765]

cry harder

[@JustinVr-dx1kz]

Gammon

[@aklol7384]

😂❤ recently moved to raciest town but I like that

[@paulrichmond9720]

It would appear all the Muslims turned out to vote, and the Londoners stayed home.

[@icarus877]

Yep 100% Muslim vote, I just wonder what happened to the postal votes?

[@stanh9521]

@@icarus877londoners don’t care enough?

[@paulrichmond9720]

@icarus877 Probably went up in smoke. Oh no... that would affect his zero carbon targets..😏

[@jameshayden441]

I’d like to bet a fix happened behind doors

[@bbuzz1687]

​@@icarus877can think of several Muslims who did not vote and one who voted Hall.😂

[@_mklein]

I like the ULez and Hope he now bans the idiots driving around with Loud Exhaust pipes

[@zzz22214]

Another terribly sad news for the British people.

[@harvestcanada]

It would have been insane not to vote for Sadiq Khan, Hill didn't even turn up to a meeting she was invited to 3 months in advance.

[@danielgoring1328]

I dont know how anyone can vote either of the pathetic labour-tory combo

[@sebgold5841]

Entering a donkey in the Grand National and wondering why it failed is not corruption, it's just stupid.

[@haydnrees8628]

London is doomed

[@ZaydDepaor]

UK is doomed under zionist israeli control

[@johnmoore9862]

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭.

[@aklol7384]

Mashallah 🤩

[@rahbid121]

Because it's diverse? because the schools are doing better than any other schools in other boroughs? Because the roads are better than before? Because the crime rate is getting lower? Because different faiths are followed? Because of free school meals? Because of the RLH, which is better than most hospitals in other boroughs? Because of the town hall in white chapel that has been restored? What's your point?

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

Go away.

[@sorinhodosan458]

It’s time to leave London. That’s it !

[@ahartify]

Where to then?

[@sorinhodosan458]

@@ahartify Indeed… where ? Maybe it is time to fight back ? Don’t know…

[@nt300uk]

He’s been mayor for 8 years. Why now?

[@denzalwash4120]

Yeah.. that’s the spirit run away 😂

[@sorinhodosan458]

@@denzalwash4120 no need to run…I can walk slowly🤣

[@user-cq9zl9sf2t]

Corruption pure and simple

[@somethinglikeanonymous1773]

How is it corruption? Where’s your facts to back up such a claim?

[@lookingfora6795]

I’m moving out of London anyways 😩 no hope

[@cameron148002]

Cry about it

[@ahartify]

​@@lookingfora6795Where to? Florida?

[@janet5820]

I agree Unlawful.

[@dianeirvine7624]

Boris was London mayor and became prime minster , just imagine ----

[@evora9081]

Something to look forward to

[@hectorcot597]

I can see it happening

[@jackoh991]

Can't wait. I won't vote for Starmer but I'd vote for SK

[@JonDoe-fj8gr]

Please don't give me nightmares lol😮

[@Crayawni]

That’s how it should be. He is not a lazy man

[@chrisyoung8714]

Bye bye London. Voter replacement on display.

[@mindverse8972]

Voting system manipulated. We dont even want him in

[@dianacoles1017]

I do. All my mates do. Speak for yourself. Best news I've heard all week

[@soundscape26]

Trumpesque claim.

[@dianacoles1017]

@@soundscape26 isn't it all too scarily reminiscently. 'My guy lost, it must be voter fraud'.

[@robstewart1703]

Fash snowflake nonsense... Cry more.

[@illegalsmirf]

London is gone.

[@ZaydDepaor]

No, it is still there.

[@illegalsmirf]

@@ZaydDepaor what was once London is now Londonistan

[@julieclonan2427]

​@@ZaydDepaorOnly the Buildings.

[@aklol7384]

Cry hard raciest busted 😂

[@goldeneagle99]

London has fallen

[@dlfentini]

Massive Scam

[@robstewart1703]

🥱

[@calvinaitkin-sf9up]

One million muslim voters,,never going to get rid of him.

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

Watch out for ULEZ expansion now !

[@dougaltolan3017]

👍 Good, innit!

[@aklol7384]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-if5uy6ux1g]

And the roads will be 10 miles an hour. With a big sign, 10 is plenty. More roads closures,why this pigeon face won again?

[@ganndeber1621]

and white flight

[@dianacoles1017]

Terrible. Less people dying of lung disease. How awful.

[@jeffreyholmes6543]

I was born and bred in London haven't been there in years and will never go back now never thought I would see the day it would turn into a 3rd world country

[@nt300uk]

It isn’t, it’s one of the richest, most influential cities in the world.

[@goldeneagle99]

​@@nt300uk b S

[@jeonlyxoxo]

Ok. Stay away from

[@thegeniusofthecrowd354]

KC3 is the architect of the ethnic cleansing of whites, he wants feudalism 2.0 and needs whites dead to get it. Khan is just a puppet.

[@cryptone0075]

Yet I'm still to meet someone in London who supports him or has ever 🤔

[@osmanamjid2432]

I do

[@Babavose]

Get out of your circle

[@steveo2577]

I did

[@chloeschofield6728]

he'll be dead by the end of the week, inshallah lol

[@zzzo4509]

The only votes he gets are from muslims

[@ritacross855]

Rigged

[@robstewart1703]

🔔 🔚

[@peartree460]

Rip london

[@Nutmegsyourman]

@@REL602 NONCE

[@robstewart1703]

🔔 🔚.... London is 2000yrs old... Cry more. ❄️

[@peartree460]

@@robstewart1703 not crying... I moved out of london years ago. The thing is where i moved to is now saturated with Londoners that have fled. I would say my small english town is 10% ex London "refugees" They/we all have the same opinion that the big smoke is circling the drain.

[@AA-yz2ue]

Don't worry brown and black people will be coming there as well 😂😂😂​@@peartree460

[@CyclingSteve]

@@peartree460 London is forever grateful.

[@bhak1ng734]

Why was there a life size robot in the background 💀

[@soundscape26]

Hey, respect... it's Count Binface. Got 24k votes.

[@Kiltking]

Yes.!

[@thenakedtruth7136]

'They took no note until the flood came and swept them all away', comes to mind. London is doomed.

[@jeonlyxoxo]

London is England? What’s outside of London? Pubs lol

[@peterfox2538]

Fixed.

[@Ghostprocedure]

Who voted for this guy? Please comment below

[@osmanamjid2432]

Me

[@erinanne70]

Def not me

[@teehee9096]

meeee

[@thephysicalsilverfox3474]

All the followers of a false, blasphemous religion

[@fahadriaz2915]

Me

[@themackeler5011]

Black people vote for black candidates, brown people vote for brown candidates so white people should vote for white candidates.

[@Zaphod-ef9yz]

What if they are transracial? 😂

[@jackoh991]

Nah I'm good thanks

[@soundscape26]

That's definitely not how it should go. Competence is not related to ethnicity.

[@user-nd5fz5jd9o]

Theres no whites to vote in London

[@netty4954]

It's a fix all those pencils being used

[@thewayofthomas1661]

Sadiq sir please issue 1 million visa for South Asian, we like London chicken tikka bring with naan rice..ameen

[@adina2419]

Oh no. Expect knife crime to double, extra dirty busses, ugly everything. Disappointing. Not good. And ya, I’m leaving London and I’m not saying it metaphorically. Incompetence at the highest level!

[@rahbid121]

Goodbye,

[@adina2419]

@@rahbid121 alecum salam buddy

[@robstewart1703]

See ya.

[@CyclingSteve]

Get a move on, we need the housing.

[@adina2419]

@@CyclingSteve easy slumdog.

[@lesterfalcon1350]

14:26 Begins

[@dsgrbrowne1]

So, nothing is gonna change in London for the next 4 years.

[@darranrichardson4938]

The whole thing is corrupt

[@robstewart1703]

Cry more. ❄️

[@darranrichardson4938]

@@robstewart1703 Why

[@jamestheferret]

I find it staggering that votes cast was about 2.5m out of 6.1m people eligible to vote!! It's not even half! Are people really that dejected with politics

[@user-cf8ws6fu8f]

Well done.

[@krishdante7152]

What the heck is going on. A circus we are living in 😮

[@tonybennett3904]

How is this possible ?

[@EvidentlyFire]

I live in London and I literally dont know ONE person who likes him and then I read these comments and then I wonder HOW IN GOD DID HE WIN?

[@harryamer3128]

Corruption and the Muslim vote got him this 3rd term

[@footballsoccerx2021]

Not enough bigots.

[@EvidentlyFire]

@@footballsoccerx2021 oh stop. Not everyone who doesn't like him is a bigot, that's a real bigoted thing to say.

[@fordgtbangout]

He runs the public transport system well

[@alanv7569]

I agree, I’ve never met a Londoner who has anything good to say about him

[@elodieridesagain3018]

It was not a surprise to me. If the press wants to survive, get on board

[@chubbygallasso]

London is plummeting....!

[@robstewart1703]

🥱

[@edmond8603]

I wonder what Churchill will say about it 😢😢

[@Umar_1994_]

View of London: we hate Sadiq Khan, but we hate Tories even more.

[@expatbiker6598]

Spot on

[@bleblablo]

I don't think people hate Sadiq, rather, they're indifferent

[@AdanALicea]

Sad reality

[@kbrickell4732]

What about Howard Cox the reform candidate 😢

[@leesmusic1]

@@bleblablono they hate him, thats why every time he gets voted in everyone is like “how did that happen!”

[@_Make_America_Native_Again_.]

They told us London fell in 2016 when khan was first elected, then in 2021. Now they telling us London fell again in 2024 😂

[@robstewart1703]

Fash aren't the brightest

[@dougaltolan3017]

Looks like people dgaf about ULEZ.

[@icarus877]

God Help us all

[@philhunter9158]

Corruption at its finest. He’s in for good, ask tony Blair!!!

[@footballsoccerx2021]

Why is it corruption? Please explain

[@philhunter9158]

@@footballsoccerx2021 it’s self explanatory!

[@pigeon1426]

​@@philhunter9158 Translation: "I don't know"

[@fargo1228]

The lesser of two evils

[@Explorist719]

Wait... is that a bin person on the stand? Wtf?!🤣

[@soundscape26]

It's Count Binface... got a very respectable 24k votes.

[@Explorist719]

@@soundscape26 What? Seriously? 😄I guess Londoners have reach peaked trolling. They have a great sense of humour. 😅

[@lemmyraisehell.8669]

Can we have a new capital city ? Or better still give England independence from it.

[@user-if5uy6ux1g]

The new capital of England,is Islamabad from now on.

[@lemmyraisehell.8669]

@@user-if5uy6ux1g looks that way. But one day things will change

[@soundscape26]

London is UK's economic engine... good luck without it.

[@robstewart1703]

England can't even give the chagos islands independence... Go have a lie down

[@AA-yz2ue]

​@@user-if5uy6ux1gsounds amazing. Islamabad is an amazing city ❤🎉

[@charlesng6504]

Yayyyyyy Shadiq Khan won 1,088,225 Votes

[@roninhood1027]

It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

[@phillawrence5148]

Lol, indeed

[@ahartify]

Eh?

[@dogpound7162]

@@ahartify Exactly !

[@peteryyz43]

@roninhood1027: Yeah, I agree; that's exactly, word for word, what I've been saying.

[@roninhood1027]

@@peteryyz43 I think Woody Allen said it first, but it’s so fitting for this occasion.

[@class1188]

Global VERY same political patterns going on . This is globally same exact thing different people.

[@captainnice1881]

Thank God I don't live in London anymore

[@doubleooh7337]

I wonder how many British citizens voted for him NONE

[@johnfletcher6825]

Our once capital city is now gone😢

[@TheLampini]

Nope - just stuck me head out - it's still there! 😂😂

[@KennyHBCA1]

My condolences London

[@videoview5179]

Sad situation of UK 😢

[@rahbid121]

I feel bad for what his family had to go through because of his job. May Allah guide them and keep them safe Ameen

[@musicloverlondon6070]

Me too. Judging by the comments, I'd say it can't be easy for them or him.

[@fannysludge]

Absolute fraud .

[@spinynorman8217]

Just extraordinairy. Man's a complete menace.

[@sandrawells7665]

Its not unbelievable its fixed by his cronies. The only way now is to make the job redundant and him with it. It happens with other firms they shut them down every body looses their job and then they start again . They cant sack him so this is the only way to get rid of him .

[@martynkorol5322]

Fixed, Fixed, london is going to go downhill FAST... SAD SAD DAY...!!

[@MrDanb7]

Going to move out of London! Enough is enough! LONDON IS FINISHED!

[@ahartify]

Where to?

[@Happykidss588]

Moving to the moon 😂

[@edmond8603]

Is moving to planet mars I guess sadiq khan will follow him

[@jeonlyxoxo]

Gone too late bye

[@benjibeal1]

byeee

[@stanh9521]

Haters calling London Londonistan. I call it Londonabad.

[@davidsadler7047]

Lol

[@TheHorrorDevotee]

2:58 When your custom character is in a cutscene.

[@mrsm8821]

A good day for the 13lamist

[@MrJbeezer]

Disgusting

[@robstewart1703]

Fash ❄️

[@tamgtamg1719]

Has anyone noticed the pencil was provided at polling stations? I asked for a pen instead. Did anyone do the same? JUst wondering

[@dougaltolan3017]

Trot on troll

[@robstewart1703]

Cry more

[@markwells6222]

Unbelievable

[@billyb6001]

Carl Benjamin isn’t going to like this

[@Mixed.Sounds]

"this wonderful city has extended to ours" yeah its extended to afghanistan at this point

[@user-dv2xw2ts5m]

Don't do London so I don't give a fu-k.

[@davidsadler7047]

Too right, its like a foreign country.

[@jeonlyxoxo]

That’s the attitude. Leave London for Londoners to sort.

[@user-dj5sl2mk6k]

Well done sadiq

[@user-lc1gr3yi5q]

Am very confused by all the comments about Khan and not read anything about how wonderful he is 😮

[@marriedkiwi]

one in 3 voted. As the saying goes when good people do nothing evil reigns

[@marriedkiwi]

that dude on the left of her..a real gangster. London is truly fked

[@alanv7569]

This has to be a fix. I never hear anyone with any time for the guy. I guess it shows the demographic living in Londistan

[@smokecover9753]

Sadiq Khan is savage he didn’t wanna shake her hand 😂

[@joseph9074]

Who let the dogs in

[@gellnika1604]

...won't let them out 😂😂😂😂😂

[@chelleh5693]

omg 😦 yous are doomed we are all doomed in this uk 🇬🇧 country of mines 😢

[@tropics8407]

I bet the turnout is really low 🤨

[@CyclingSteve]

Higher than the rest of the country.

[@TheSlideGlider]

This guy is pure poison.

[@alexandradacunha3221]

I DONT BELEIVE THAT HE WON . Goodbye London .

[@ZaydDepaor]

Should have done wide angle on camera so reactions of all candidates can be seen on hearing their results

[@lolly9080]

Agree he has done well on certain important issues but why did have to stir the cauldron on hate, he gives with one hand and stirs with the other. Not nice

[@nt300uk]

How has he stirred the cauldron on hate? Examples?

[@johnking5428]

God help us.

[@joseph9074]

No such thing fiction

[@tonyroy8123]

Right result was on the cards.

[@cadetmouse]

Khan has ended my labour support forever....

[@johnndong5678]

Brilliant!