Polling stations across Greater Manchester have opened in a mayoral election that was triggered when Andy Burnham resigned as the city region’s mayor.<\/p>\n
MPs are not permitted to be mayor, meaning Burnham had to stand down after his success in last month’s Makerfield parliamentary by-election. His election as an MP paved the way for him becoming prime minister earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Voters are now choosing which candidate they would like to represent them as mayor of Greater Manchester and leader of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.<\/p>\n
Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00. The results are due to be announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
Here is a list – in alphabetical order, by surname – of the seven candidates who are standing in the mayoral election:<\/p>\n
Sian Astley, Reform UK<\/p>\n
Geraldine Coggins, Green Party<\/p>\n
Bev Craig, Labour<\/p>\n
Phil Eckersley, Conservative<\/p>\n
Marcus Farmer, Independent<\/p>\n
Richard Kilpatrick, Liberal Democrats<\/p>\n
Marlon West, Restore Britain<\/p>\n
The election will be decided using the supplementary vote (SV) system – meaning voters can choose to select both a first- and second-choice candidate.<\/p>\n
If nobody wins more than 50% of the initial vote, all but the two highest-polling candidates are knocked out of the race.<\/p>\n
The second choices of those who voted for the other candidates are then reallocated.<\/p>\n
Whichever of the top two candidates ends up with the most votes after this “run-off” round is then declared the winner.<\/p>\n
The location of your nearest polling station can be found on your polling card, or by searching on your local council website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polling stations across Greater Manchester have opened in a mayoral election that was triggered when Andy Burnham resigned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}