Wins in East Midlands, North East and North Yorkshire suggest Labour on course for general election victory

The Conservatives held on to their high-profile Tees Valley mayoralty with a reduced majority for Ben Houchen – but Labour won three other contests, in the East Midlands, North East and Rishi Sunak’s own patch of North Yorkshire.

Houchen was re-elected with a 16.5 percentage point swing to Labour. He won 81,930 votes (53.6%) against 63,141 (41.3%) for Labour and 7,679 (5%) for the Liberal Democrats. At the last election he won 73% of the votes.

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