Green Party gains second elected mayor in ‘phenomenal result’

WorldPolitics
9 May 2026 • 1:46 AM MYT
The Independent
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Green Party gains second elected mayor in ‘phenomenal result’

  • The Green Party’s Liam Shrivastava has won the mayoralty in Lewisham with 35,265 votes.
  • Labour’s Amanda De Ryk came second in the southeast London constituency with 30,374 votes, with Reform UK’s Pete Newman third on 7,288.
  • Mr Shrivastava is the second Green Party mayor to be elected in London, following Zoe Garbett, who was confirmed as mayor of Hackney earlier on Friday.
  • Green Party leader Zack Polanski welcomed the "phenomonal result", saying that Mr Shrivastava had run a "powerhouse, community driven campaign".
  • Mr Shrivastava was a member of Labour until mid-2025 when he switched allegiance to the Greens, saying that "the party I joined is unrecogniseable from what it has become".
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