Mayor of West Midlands
This election will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024.
The Mayor of the West Midlands helps direct the overall strategy of the seven councils which make up the West Midlands Combined Authority. The Mayor has responsibilities in areas including transport, adult skills, infrastructure, housing and business support.
Learn more about devolution in the West Midlands from the Institute for Government.
We are currently aware of two candidates for this position. The official candidate list will be published by 5 April 2024, when this page will be updated. Once nomination papers are published, we will manually verify each candidate. You can help improve this page: add information about candidates to our database.
Read the official candidate booklet for this election.
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Richard Parker
Labour and Co-operative Party
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Andy Street
Conservative and Unionist Party
Election events
You can meet candidates and question them at events (often known as 'hustings'). Here are some events that are taking place:
(Past event)
Thursday 25 April 2024 20:00
:
A Mayor for the West Midlands
, BBC One
See video or other info from this event.
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