Marvin Rees loses out to Independent candidate

It seems as though the Liberal Democrat vote and the Conservative vote collapsed giving the former Liberal Democrat leader George Ferguson, who stood as an Independent, victory after counting the second preference votes.

I’m sure Marvin Rees will be bitterly disappointed not to make history and serve the people of Bristol, but he can be proud of the positive campaign that he run. He fought hard and he fought fair, but it wasn’t enough, losing by just a few thousand votes. Labour will have ask itself how did they let this one slip away, but right now lets congratulate Bristol’s first directly elected Mayor George Ferguson, and commiserate Marvin.

He’s young and brilliant enough to bounce back. Let’s not forget that Barack Obama failed to get elected to the House of Representatives in 2000. Eight years later he was leading his country.

Simon Woolley