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Tomorrow, on Thursday, May 2nd, the local and mayoral elections will be taking place
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Here in the capital, voters will be deciding on the Mayor of London for the next four years
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We've broken down everything you need to know about the vote. So, who's standing
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The contest is broadly a two-horse race between Labour's Sadiq Khan, who has been mayor for the past eight years
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He's up against the Conservative candidate, Susan Hall, who previously ran Harrow Council and led the Tory group at City Hall
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Also standing, a Liberal Democrat hopeful Rob Blackie, a previous anti-crack. and environmental campaigner
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And running for the Green Party is Zoe Garbutt, a councillor in the London Borough of Hackney
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There are also a number of independent candidates and those standing for smaller parties
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who you can read all about on CITAM.com. So what does the mayor actually do
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The mayor's job is effectively to run London. He or she is responsible for the Met Police, Transport for London
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housing and representing our city on the world stage. The office is based in City Hall, which is now located in London Stocklands
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The mayor is held to account by the London Assembly, assembly, an elected group of representatives for different areas of the capital from various
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parties. It's similar to how Parliament scrutinises the Prime Minister. The election is taking
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place on Thursday, May 2nd, and you might be wondering, how can I vote? Well, given this is tomorrow
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the deadline to register to vote has now passed. But if you haven't signed up this time
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make sure to register before the general election If you have registered to vote you can find your local polling station on your council website or on the polling card you may have been sent in the post You don need the pollen card to vote but you do now need to take photo ID with you This can include a
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passport, driving licence or some types of travel pass or document. Check the
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Electoral Commission website for full detail. Here at City AM we were wondering which
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issues to Londoners really care about so we hit the streets to find out
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If you were mere for a day what is the one big change you would make? I look into childcare
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I'd bring back the cycle, super highways. I thought they were great
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I know it's just a lot of blue paint, but I thought they were excellent. To me where I live right now, I would try to eliminate the trash around the streets
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So this creates automatically from the way, from the moment you are going out
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it creates a bit of not pleasant, failing to see all the trash in the streets
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I'd fix the Elizabeth's line. That's a very good way too. I'll allocate more funds for homeless people
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When will Londoners find out who their new mayor is? Local and mayoral elections accounted slightly differently from general elections
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London isn't voting for councillors this time, but across England, some council results will come in overnight on Thursday
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and throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We can expect the result of the London mayoral election
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sometime on Saturday afternoon or evening. Watch this space. And Cityam will be there to cover it live
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