A change in the voting system to first-past-the-post for mayors meant they were voted in with the lowest vote share ever.
The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) campaign group said Labour's Helen Godwin in the West of England and the Conservatives' Paul Bristow in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were voted in with less than 30% of the vote – just under 25% and a little over 28% respectively – for the first time.
