4 May 2012 Last updated at 10:20 ET

English mayoral elections and referendums

On 3 May 2012 Liverpool and Salford held elections for directly-elected mayors.

Full results are listed below.

Liverpool: Joe Anderson (Labour) elected
Candidate	Party	1st pref	%
Turnout: 98,507 (30.8%)
Joe Anderson	Labour	58,448	59.33
Liam Fogarty	Independent	8,292	8.42
Richard Kemp	Liberal Democrats	6,238	6.33
John Coyne	Green Party	5,175	5.25
Tony Mulhearn	TUSC	4,792	4.86
Stephen Radford	Liberal	4,442	4.51
Tony Caldeira	Conservative	4,425	4.49
Adam Heatherington	UKIP	2,352	2.39
Paul Rimmer	English Democrats	1,400	1.42
Jeff Berman	Liverpool Independent Party	1,362	1.38
Mike Whitby	BNP	1,015	1.03
Peter Tierney	National Front	566	0.57

In Salford, second preference votes were used to elect the mayor as no single candidate received more than 50% of first preferences.

Salford: Ian Stewart (Labour) elected
Second round
Candidate	Party	Final total	%	Status
Turnout: 44,881 (26%)
Ian Stewart	Labour	23,459	69.9	Elected
Karen Garrido	Conservative	10,078	30.1
First round
Candidate	Party	1st pref	%	2nd pref
Ian Stewart	Labour	20,663	46.04	2,796
Karen Garrido	Conservative	8,062	17.96	2,016
Bernard Gill	UKIP	3,368	7.5
Pat Ward	Independent	2,665	5.94
Norman Owen	Liberal Democrat	2,148	4.79
Edward O'Sullivan	British National Party	2,026	4.51
Paul Massey	Independent	1,995	4.45
Michael Felse	English Democrat	1,616	3.6
Joe O'Neill	Green Party	1,273	2.84
Michael Moulding	Community Action Party	1,065	2.37