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Ray Mallon re-elected as Middlesbrough Mayor
by Ian McNeal, Evening Gazette
May 6 2011
1ShareRAY Mallon secured the narrowest of victories in the Middlesbrough Mayor Election.
He polled just over the required 50% of the vote to claim victory.
It is his 3rd successive term in the top political job in Middlesbrough Town Hall.
Mr Mallon’s election victory comes after the campaign in which he was put under the spotlight because of the release of the Mallon Tapes – Secret Recordings, made by Boro Cars boss Mohammed Bashir of meetings and telephone conversations he had with Mr Mallon.
Second place in the poll was taken by Labour’s Michael J Carr, a former Middlesbrough Councillor, who was the town’s civic mayor in 1999-2000.
The Liberal Democrat candidate Chris Foote-Wood, who has fought eight general elections including twice in Middlesbrough and has also been a candidate in five European elections, took third place.
The Conservative candidate Lloyd Cole-Nolan took fourth place.
With the expected result Mr Mallon will have four more years ahead of him as the borough’s elected Mayor. He was first elected to the position in 2002 when he secured a landslide victory with 62% of the votes cast.
Five years later he scored his second Mayoral success taking 58.7% of the total vote.
Today he received 50.4% of the total vote and there was a 36.5% turn-out in the election.
Mr Mallon said today: "This victory, which is the public’s victory, is the endorsement of what has gone on over the last nine years.
"It’s not about me, it’s about we and what we have achieved together."
by Ian McNeal, Evening Gazette
May 6 2011
1ShareRAY Mallon secured the narrowest of victories in the Middlesbrough Mayor Election.
He polled just over the required 50% of the vote to claim victory.
It is his 3rd successive term in the top political job in Middlesbrough Town Hall.
Mr Mallon’s election victory comes after the campaign in which he was put under the spotlight because of the release of the Mallon Tapes – Secret Recordings, made by Boro Cars boss Mohammed Bashir of meetings and telephone conversations he had with Mr Mallon.
Second place in the poll was taken by Labour’s Michael J Carr, a former Middlesbrough Councillor, who was the town’s civic mayor in 1999-2000.
The Liberal Democrat candidate Chris Foote-Wood, who has fought eight general elections including twice in Middlesbrough and has also been a candidate in five European elections, took third place.
The Conservative candidate Lloyd Cole-Nolan took fourth place.
With the expected result Mr Mallon will have four more years ahead of him as the borough’s elected Mayor. He was first elected to the position in 2002 when he secured a landslide victory with 62% of the votes cast.
Five years later he scored his second Mayoral success taking 58.7% of the total vote.
Today he received 50.4% of the total vote and there was a 36.5% turn-out in the election.
Mr Mallon said today: "This victory, which is the public’s victory, is the endorsement of what has gone on over the last nine years.
"It’s not about me, it’s about we and what we have achieved together."