Sadiq Khan has become London's first ever British Asian and Muslim Mayor, beating the odds. He is the first Muslim and British Asian Mayor of any Western city, as big and as popular as London.
This election result has proved that London does not care about anyone's faith or ethnicity or race politics- diversity and multiculturalism and over all potentials remain the essence of one's identity. This unique nature of victory is to many people's belief, only possible in Britain, some hoping they may also witness Britain getting its first Asian or Black Prime Minister in the coming years.
Mr Khan lead his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith by a total of 315,529 votes, after the second preference votes were counted and reallocated. He received 1,310,143 votes, higher than for any previous London Mayor. This amounted to 57% of the total final votes to Mr Goldsmith's 43% (994,614 votes). Turnout was 45.6% up from 38% in 2012.
Khan, one of the 8 children born to Pakistani immigrants, a bus driver and seamstress in London, grew up in a Council estate at Earlsfield, south-west London, sharing a bunkbed with one of his brothers until he left home in his 20s. He later became a successful human rights lawyer, before joining politics and becoming a MP.
