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Poll puts Greens narrowly ahead of Labour in WECA mayoral race
The Green Party’s Mary Page will be the next mayor of the West of England according to the first poll carried out in the run-up to the election on May 1.
The YouGov poll has Page currently polling at 27 per cent of the vote, narrowly ahead of Labour’s Helen Godwin on 23 per cent.
In third and fourth place are Reform’s Arron Banks (18 per cent) and Conservative Steve Smith (17 per cent), with the Lib Dems’ Oli Henman on 13 per cent of the vote and independent Ian Scott at two per cent.
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If Page – who previously stood as a Lib Dem candidate for Bristol mayor and later led the campaign to scrap that role – does win, it will mean the mayoralty has been won by a different party in all three elections following Tory Tim Bowles in 2017 and Labour’s Dan Norris in 2021.
Page was not the Greens’ first choice as their WECA mayoral candidate, with Bristol’s deputy council leader Heather Mack the party’s original choice before she quietly stood down after only a few weeks.
Page herself stood for Bristol mayor as a Liberal Democrat in 2020 before later standing down and then switching to the Greens in 2023.
Elsewhere in the UK, there are three other combined authority mayoralties being decided on May 1.
The YouGov polling conducted between April 9 and 23 putting Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns ahead in Greater Lincolnshire, Reform’s Luke Campbell ahead in Hull & East Yorkshire and Conservative Paul Bristow leading in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
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