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Biggs wins Tower Hamlets mayoral election re-run

Labour’s John Biggs has become the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in a re-run of the election to find a replacement for Lutfur Rahman.

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By Dan Peters | 12 June 2015

Labour's John Biggs has become the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in a re-run of the election to find a replacement for Lutfur Rahman.

Mr Biggs won 32,754 votes on a second preference vote weeks after an Election Commissioner found Mr Rahman guilty of electoral fraud and removed him from office.

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