London elects first Muslim mayor

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London elected a Muslim mayor on Friday, making Sadiq Khan the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital.

Khan is the son of Pakistani immigrants and a member of the Labour Party. 

He beat out Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith by about 13 percentage points, the BBC reports. 

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