Sadiq Khan Wins Second Term as London Mayor After Close Race
- Incumbent defeats Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey
- Khan promised to be most pro-business mayor capital has seen
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Sadiq Khan was re-elected as Mayor of London but only after an unexpected surge in support for his main rival threatened to give Boris Johnson’s Conservatives their biggest prize of this week’s British elections.
As the incumbent Labour Party candidate, Khan was the runaway favorite to win the contest and keep his job but Shaun Bailey ran a closer-than-expected second, narrowing the gap in the polls in the final days of the contest.