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Andy Street's success is part of the English political realignment

9 May 2021

3:07 AM

9 May 2021

3:07 AM

Andy Street won the West Midlands mayoralty in 2017 by the slimmest of margins, with 50.4 percent of the vote to Labour’s 49.6 percent in the second round. He has been re-elected by a far more comfortable margin: 54 percent in the second round, and was within eight thousand votes of winning on the first round.

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