Labour's Sadiq Khan elected 1st Muslim London mayor
LONDON - Sadiq Khan became London's first Muslim mayor Saturday, as voters rejected attempts to taint him with links to extremism and handed a decisive victory to the bus driver's son from south London.
Khan hailed his victory as the triumph of "hope over fear and unity over division."
Labour Party candidate Khan received more than 1.3 million votes - 57 percent of the total - to Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith's 43 percent, after voters' first and second preferences were allocated.
Turnout was a relatively high 45.6 percent, up from 38 percent in 2012.
