LONDON: Veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected head of Britain's Labour Party, defeating a challenge to his year-old leadership of the divided opposition party.
The party announced Saturday that Corbyn won almost 62 percent of the more than 500,000 votes cast by Labour members and supporters.
Corbyn, a long-time back-bench lawmaker was elected last year to lead Labour, which governed between 1997 and 2010 but has lost two successive general elections.
He has strong grass-roots support from followers dubbed "Corbynistas," but many Labour legislators believe his left-wing views are out of step with public opinion.