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== History ==
== History ==
Houchen won the 2017 Tees Valley mayoral election as the Conservative candidate in May that year with 51% of the vote in the ordinarily [[Labour Party|Labour]]-voting region.
In 2019, Ben Houchen invited US President [[Donald Trump]] to the Tees Valley area. Trump didn't attend but American ambassador Woody Johnson visited the region in his stead.<ref>https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/president-trumps-ambassador-visits-teesside-16671947?fbclid=IwAR0vfPqcsXa3vXcXBBCmGD-yD4YU6fDwdc65jBMb7brrmtgRE2ggaDdxVhc</ref>
In 2019, Ben Houchen invited US President [[Donald Trump]] to the Tees Valley area. Trump didn't attend but American ambassador Woody Johnson visited the region in his stead.<ref>https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/president-trumps-ambassador-visits-teesside-16671947?fbclid=IwAR0vfPqcsXa3vXcXBBCmGD-yD4YU6fDwdc65jBMb7brrmtgRE2ggaDdxVhc</ref>
Houchen won re-election as mayor in 2021 in a what was described as a "landslide", with 73% of the vote.<ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tories-win-crucial-tees-24062275</ref>
==References==
==References==