Councillor Mick Brown has officially retained his seat in Gravelly Hill, with Labour’s longstanding local official beating off some fierce competition from the Liberal Democrats and Green Party candidates.
Cllr Brown secured 620 votes, beating Mohammad Amin (Lib Dems, 417 votes) and Imran Khan (Green Party, 360 votes) holding onto his seat with an over 220 vote majority.
Coming in a very close third was Reform UK’s Maise Wilton, winning 344 votes, with the Local Conservatives candidate Julia Mackay securing 123.
Gravelly Hill also saw two independent candidates stand, with neither seemingly riding the predicted wave of independents – with Whaid Aktar securing 168 votes and Asif Mehmood securing just 66 votes.
Speaking to Erdington Local after the announcement, and in the light of Labor losses elsewhere in the constituency, Councillor Mick Brown told: “We are going to recharge and then find what the rest of the position is on the council, who has retained the seats, who has lost them and what arrangements are we going to be making in terms of leadership teams within the Labour administration.”
In a message to the Gravelly Hill electorates who voted him back into office, Cllr Brown said: “I want to thank them for their support, and I hope that they all realise that no matter who they actually voted for, that I am here to serve them.”
And to those who didn’t, he added: “It doesn’t matter to me which party you voted for, if you need support on council issues, you can come to me.”
