York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority mayoral election

The election for the first York and North Yorkshire Mayor took place on Thursday 2 May 2024.

You can find out more about the new York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority on their website or on our York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority page.

Election result

David Skaith (Labour) was elected as the first mayor of the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority with 66,761 votes. 

View the  full results of the mayoral election (pdf / 66 KB).

You can also see the results for the two areas separately:

Turnout for the election in North Yorkshire was 29.64%. Turnout was 29.89% for the combined authority area of York and North Yorkshire.

Voter identification data

The below table shows the voter identification data for the polling stations within North Yorkshire.

Voter identification evaluation data Results
The total number of polling station electors who applied for, but at least initially were not issued with, a ballot paper due to not showing accepted identification 174
The total number of polling station electors who were not issued with a ballot paper and who later returned with accepted identification and were issued with a ballot paper 137
The number of polling station electors who applied for but were not issued with a ballot paper by close of poll 37
Percentage of those who attended the polling station and were able to vote in this election 99.96%
Percentage of those who applied for but were refused a ballot paper by the close of poll 0.04%
The percentage of electors who applied for, but were initially refused, a ballot paper 0.2%
Of the electors initially refused a ballot paper, the percentage who later returned with accepted identification and were issued with a ballot paper 79%

The table below shows wider information about the election for North Yorkshire which can be used for context with the voter identification data.

Contextual information Results
The total number of electors who were eligible to vote in person at the polling stations 394,203
The total number of voters issued with a ballot paper at polling stations 89,900
Polling station turnout - the percentage of electors eligible to vote in person at the polling stations who voted 22.81%
Overall turnout (including postal voters) 29.64%