Watch live: Have Labour or Reform won the Greater Manchester mayoral election?
Reform UK and Labour have gone through to the second round of voting in the Greater Manchester Mayoral by-election.
Neither Labour’s Bev Craig or Reform UK’s Sian Astley managed to secure a majority, meaning voters second choice ballots will now be counted to decide an overall winner.
Five candidates have now been eliminated from the contest to become Greater Manchester mayor – Geraldine Coggins (Green), Phil Eckersley (Conservative), Marcus Farmer (Independent), Richard Kilpatrick (Liberal Democrats) and Marlon West (Restore Britain).
The by-election is using a voting system called supplementary vote (SV), which sees voters mark their ballot papers with a first and second choice, and if any candidate wins more than 50% of the first-choice votes, they are declared the winner.
This comes as Andy Burnham left his position as Greater Manchester Mayor to become MP for Makerfield and later Prime Minister.
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