The North Yorkshire mayoral election will provide Labour real hopes of going further than 1997 in Yorkshire.
During Blair's landslide election win, the Conservatives were forced back to their safest seats in North and East Yorkshire in places such as Skipton and Thirsk. A win for Labour in York and North Yorkshire's mayoral contest does not mean that the party will sweep the board in the county that is home to Rishi Sunak's seat. It does however mean that it is more likely that Labour will win the seats that it is targeting.
As we saw from Ben Houchen's win on Teesside ahead of Boris Johnson's victory in 2019, a mayor that can do good work locally in an area that is not the natural home of their political party is able to translate that vote to the surrounding area in a general election. This will be perhaps a more difficult task than it was in the North East when frustrations over deindustrialisation and Brexit were big deciding factors.
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