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Who defeated Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election?

  • Boris Johnson

  • Jeremy Corbyn

  • Sadiq Khan

  • Ken Livingstone

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Sadiq Khan, a Labour Party politician, defeated Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election. Khan won with 57% of the vote, becoming the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city. His victory was seen as a rejection of Goldsmith's Conservative Party and its policies, as well as a sign of London's increasing diversity.
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