Mayor of Leicester

Not to be confused with Lord Mayor of Leicester.

Mayor of Leicester
Incumbent Peter Soulsby since 6 May 2011
Style	City Mayor (to distinguish from Lord Mayor, a separate post)
Appointer	Electorate of Leicester
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Peter Soulsby
Website	Leicester Mayor website

The directly elected mayor of Leicester is responsible for the executive function of Leicester City Council. The incumbent is Peter Soulsby of Labour.

Background

In December 2010 the Labour controlled Leicester City Council approved plans to give the city a directly elected Mayor with responsibility for all council decisions during their four-year term and for selecting up to nine councillors as a supporting cabinet. The creation of the post was approved by Leicester City Council on 10 December 2010. A referendum on establishing a directly elected mayoralty was not held. The first election took place in May 2011.^[1]

Elections

2011

The first mayoral election on 5 May 2011 saw Peter Soulsby elected as mayor in the first round.^[2]

Leicester Mayoral Election 5 May 2011 ^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Round	%	2nd Round	Total	First Round Votes Transfer Votes
	Labour	Peter Soulsby	46,948	55.3%
	Conservative	Ross Grant	9,688	11.4%
	Independent	Rick Moore	7,365	8.7%
	Liberal Democrat	Gary Hunt	6,029	7.1%
	Green	Geoff Forse	3,452	4.1%
	Independent	Nima Patel	3,358	4.0%
	UKIP	Regine Anderson	2,195	2.6%
	Unity for Peace and Socialism	Mohinda Farma	1,944	2.3%
	Independent	David Bowley	1,784	2.1%
	Independent	Mu-Hamid Pathan	1,465	1.7%
	Independent	Lee Sowden	631	0.7%
	Labour win

2015

Soulsby won re-election in 2015, again polling more than half the first preference vote to win on the first round.

Leicester Mayoral Election 7 May 2015 ^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Round	%	2nd Round	Total	First Round Votes Transfer Votes
	Labour	Peter Soulsby	71,533	54.6%
	Conservative	Paul Bremner	24,327	18.6%
	UKIP	Dutch Veldhuizen	12,532	9.6%
	Green	Tim Grayson	8,637	6.6%
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Barnes	8,315	6.3%
	TUSC	Barbie Potter	3,028	2.3%
	Independent	Avtar Singh	2,662	2.0%
	Labour hold

List of Mayors

Political party		Name	Entered office	Left office
	Labour	Peter Soulsby	6 May 2011	Incumbent

References

↑ "Leicester elected mayor plan is approved". BBC Leicester. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
↑ "Former MP Peter Soulsby wins Leicester mayoral race". BBC News. 6 May 2011.
↑ "City Mayor Results". Leicester City Council. 5 May 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
↑ "Mayoral Election Results". Leicester City Council. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

Directly elected mayoralties in England and Wales

Current	Bedford Bristol Copeland Doncaster Hackney Leicester Lewisham Liverpool London Mansfield Middlesbrough Newham North Tyneside Salford Torbay Tower Hamlets Watford

Planned	Greater Manchester Liverpool City Region Sheffield City Region The Solent Tees Valley West Midlands

Former	Hartlepool Stoke-on-Trent

Mayoral referendums	2012

(2010 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2011 (→ 2012)

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Mayoral elections	Bedford Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay

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