West Midlands mayoral election, 2017

4 May 2017



Candidate	Andy Street	Siôn Simon
Party	Conservative	Labour

The inaugural West Midlands mayoral election will be held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of the West Midlands, (subsequent elections will be held May 2020 and then every four years after that).

The election will be the first election for a governing body covering the entire West Midlands since the 1981 West Midlands County Council election.

Conservative Party selection

Candidates

Declared

Andy Street, Managing Director of the John Lewis Partnership and Chairman of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership^[1]^[2]

Declined

Andrew Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Government Chief Whip, and former Secretary of State for International Development.^[1]

Green Party selection

Declared

James Burn, Chelmsley Wood councillor and leader of the Solihull Green Party^[3]

Independent

Candidates

Declined

The Lord Jones of Birmingham, Crossbench life peer in the House of Lords, businessman and former Minister of State for Trade and Investment under Gordon Brown (endorsed Andy Street)^[1]^[4]

Labour Party selection

Main article: West Midlands Labour Party mayoral selection, 2016

Candidates

Declared

Steve Bedser, businessman, former Birmingham City Councillor and Cabinet member for Health and Well Being^[5]
Sion Simon, MEP for the West Midlands, former MP for Birmingham Erdington and former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Creative Industries, and Further Education.^[1]^[6]^[7]

Not selected

Najma Hafeez, management consultant, former Birmingham City Councillor and former Chairwoman of City Hospital^[8]^[9]
Milkinder Jaspal, Wolverhampton City Councillor^[9]
Mary Simons-Jones, freelance book-seller^[9]

Declined

Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North since 2005, and former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister under Gordon Brown.^[1]
Liam Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, and former Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Gordon Brown.^[1]
Darren Cooper, Leader of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, was perceived as a potential candidate before his death in March 2016.^[1]
Gisela Stuart, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, Chair of Vote Leave and former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health.^[1]

Results

First round
Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Siôn Simon	2,718	71.21%
Steve Bedser	1,099	28.79%

Liberal Democrats selection

Declared

Beverley Nielsen, businesswoman and director of Birmingham City University^[10]

UKIP selection

Declared

None yet declared

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Walker, Jonathan (19 May 2016). "Battle to be Greater Birmingham Mayor is already becoming brutal".
↑ http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/john-lewis-boss-andy-street-11876876
↑ https://solihullobserver.co.uk/news/solihull-councillor-put-forward-become-mayor-west-midlands-combined-authority-wmca/
↑ Midlands Today, BBC1, 16 September 2016
↑ "Labour picks two candidates for West Midlands Mayor contest". Halesowen News. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
↑ http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/first-official-candidate-west-midland-11432345
↑ http://tyburnmail.com/2016/06/06/sion-simon-bids-mayor-west-midlands/
↑ Neil Elkes (13 June 2016). "Najma Hafeez: Brum's first Muslim woman councillor aiming to be West Midlands mayor". The Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
1 2 3 Neil Elkes (29 June 2016). "Euro-MP and ex-council social services chief to battle it out to be Labour mayor candidate". The Birmingham Post. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
↑ http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/top-businesswoman-beverley-nielsen-chosen-11851255

External links

Council elections in the West Midlands

Birmingham City Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Coventry City Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Wolverhampton City Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

West Midlands County Council	1973 1977 1981 Abolished

Mayor	2017

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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