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1st LD: UK Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan elected first Muslim mayor of London

Xinhua, May 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Britain's Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan has been elected the new mayor of London, becoming the first Muslim mayor of the British capital, according to official polling results announced on early Saturday.

Khan, 45, defeated his major rival, the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, in the mayoral elections held on Thursday and became the capital city's third directly elected mayor, after Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.

Khan, whose parents migrated to England from Pakistan shortly before he was born, also made history by becoming the first Muslim head of the British capital. Endit