{"id":91261,"date":"2019-05-03T03:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/03\/local-elections-2019-results-brexit-anger-dominates-poll-live-news\/"},"modified":"2019-05-03T03:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:52:36","slug":"local-elections-2019-results-brexit-anger-dominates-poll-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=91261","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2019 results: Brexit anger dominates poll \u2013 live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news as council and mayoral elections take place in England and Northern IrelandLocal elections 2019: follow the live results hereWhat to look out for as local elections results come inWhere are the key battlegrounds? 2.52am BST Independent Andy Preston says he \u201ccouldn\u2019t be prouder\u201d to be the new mayor of Middlesbrough, winning 17,418 versus the Labour candidate Mick Thompson\u2019s 6,693. We\u2019ve done it! I couldn\u2019t be prouder to be the new Mayor of Middlesbrough.Thank you everyone for your votes and the faith you\u2019ve shown in me.Thank you to all those who supported my campaign &#8211; you\u2019ve been amazing! pic.twitter.com\/M9fPSi84Hp 2.51am BST As well as local council elections, there are several mayoral elections taking place tonight, including in Middlesbrough, where Labour has lost by a huge margin to independent businessman Andy Preston. And by a whopping margin of nearly three to one. Labour have lost the Mayoral race in Middlesbrough by a huge margin. Independent businessman Andy Preston gets 17,418 votes, Labour candidate Mick Thompson 6693. #LocalElections2019 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2019\/may\/02\/local-elections-2019-results-votes-counted-live-news\" target=\"_blank\">Local elections 2019 results: Brexit anger dominates poll \u2013 live news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news as council and mayoral elections take place in England and Northern IrelandLocal elections 2019: follow the live results hereWhat to look out for as local elections results come inWhere are the key battlegrounds? 2.52am BST Independent Andy Preston says he \u201ccouldn\u2019t be prouder\u201d to be the new mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}