The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London, on the same day as the London Assembly election. The election was won by the Labour candidate Sadiq Khan who polled a record number of votes. Mayor Boris Johnson chose not to stand for re-election for a third term in office, having been elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election, making this the first time since the inaugural election that the incumbent did not stand.
Sadiq Khan, a practicing Muslim and Labour Party politician, has been elected mayor of London, marking a political milestone in the Western world. Londoners voted in Khan, 45, as the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital city. He will take office in a metropolis where his fellow Muslims comprise about 12% of the population. His victory followed an unusually bitter campaign against Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, the son of a billionaire, in which race and religion have proven ugly flashpoints.
Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970) is a British Labour Party politician and the Mayor-elect of London since May 2016. He is also a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting. Ideologically, he is situated on the moderate social democratic wing of the party. Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan gained a degree in law at the University of North London. He subsequently began work as a solicitor specialising in human rights. Khan was a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006.#See more : Sadiq Khan Biography London Mayor
