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Wednesday May 8 2024

Polls have opened with voters choosing the mayors of ten combined authorities — including London, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester — as well as electing thousands of councillors spread across 107 local authorities.

Labour are the favourites to win a parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South after Scott Benton, a Conservative MP, resigned over a lobbying scandal.

There are also 37 elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales.

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England has ten "combined authorities", each with an elected mayor. The first combined authority, London, was set up in 2000. The incumbent, Sadiq Khan, is seeking a third term in office having been first elected in 2016.

He has had a

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