Labour's Tracy Brabin says it is "an honour" to have been elected the first ever mayor of West Yorkshire.

She won 60.1% of the popular vote, after a run-off with the Conservative candidate when she failed to secure a majority in the first round of voting.

The MP for Batley & Spen becomes the first woman to be elected as a metro mayor.

Ms Brabin, a former actor and television writer, entered the House of Commons in 2016 after being elected to replace murdered MP Jo Cox.

She served in the shadow cabinet under both Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Keir Starmer, but resigned her frontbench position in December 2020 to concentrate on her campaign for the mayoralty.

The newly-elected mayor said: "It is an honour I cannot put into words."

She went on to speak of growing up in a council flat in Birstall, in the constituency she would eventually represent, and said she hoped her election would send a message to other working class children.

"It doesn't matter where you live, what your parents do for a living, how much money you have in the bank or where you went to school. You can reach the very top."