Ben Houchen has won a third term as Tees Valley mayor, however he saw his majority massively cut.
Conservative Lord Houchen received 81,930 votes compared to Labour’s Chris McEwan who received 63,141 and Liberal Democrat Simon Thorley’s 7,679. It’s a massive cut in vote share for an incumbent mayor who received 73 per cent of the vote in 2021. On formal declaration of the result Lord Houchen said it had been “a very difficult few months, it has been a really hard campaign.
” Lord Houchen had been criticised for distancing himself from his party during his campaign, something he denied. “The idea that we are trying to pretend I’m not Conservative, I mean people know round here that I’m a Conservative, but thankfully what we’ve seen today is they also know that I’m a Teessider, and I’ll put Teesside first, I’ll put local people first and I’ll do what’s best for the local area,” he said.
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