RESULTS: Mayoral Elections 2025

Elections for regional mayors or ‘metro-mayors’, have taken place in the West of England, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and – for the first time – in Hull and East Yorkshire and Greater Lincolnshire.

Regional mayors lead combined authorities with devolved functions and budgets. Their powers vary but typically include aspects of transport, skills, housing and economic development.

Paul Bristow wins Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s Metro-Mayor vote

Former Peterborough MP Paul Bristow has been elected as the new Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

The Conservative party candidate secured the win with a 28.4% share of the vote, over second placed candidate, Reform’s Ryan Coogan, with 23.4%.

Total turnout for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election is 33.1%. This is slightly lower than the previous 2021 elections when it was 36.4%.

Turnout by individual district:

• Cambridge City: 38.58%

• East Cambridgeshire: 34.5%

• Fenland: 30.08%

• Huntingdonshire: 33.33%

• Peterborough: 26.09%

• South Cambridgeshire: 38.24%

Reform win breakthrough Metro-Mayor vote in Greater Lincolnshire

Reform UK candidate Dame Andrea Jenkyns, and former Conservative MP, has won a comfortable victory in the election for the first Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty. Dame Jenkyns secured 42% of the vote share compared with 26.1% for the second placed Conservative candidate.

Reform has also taken control of Lincolnshire County Council in the local government elections.

*All percentages mentioned in this piece are accurate at time of publishing