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London mayoral election, 2000
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The first election to the office of Mayor of London took place on May 4, 2000.
| London Mayoral Election Results 2000 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Party | 1st Preference Votes | % | 2nd Preference Votes¹ | % | Final | %² | |
| Livingstone, Ken | Independent | 667,877 | 39.0 | 178,809 | 12.6 | 776,427 | 57.9 | |
| Norris, Steven | Conservative | 464,434 | 27.1 | 188,041 | 13.2 | 564,137 | 42.1 | |
| Dobson, Frank | Labour | 223,884 | 13.1 | 228,095 | 16.0 | N/A | ||
| Kramer, Susan | Lib Dem | 203,452 | 11.9 | 404,815 | 28.5 | N/A | ||
| Gidoomal, Ram | CPA | 42,060 | 2.4 | 56,489 | 4.0 | N/A | ||
| Johnson, Darren | Green | 38,121 | 2.2 | 192,764 | 13.6 | N/A | ||
| Newland, Michael | BNP | 33,569 | 2.0 | 45,337 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
| Hockney, Damian | UKIP | 16,324 | 1.0 | 43,672 | 3.1 | N/A | ||
| Ben-Nathan, Geoffrey | Pro-Motorist Small Shop | 9,956 | 0.6 | 23,021 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
| Tanna, Ashwin | Independent | 9,015 | 0.5 | 41,766 | 2.9 | N/A | ||
| Clements, Geoffrey | Natural Law | 5,470 | 0.3 | 18,185 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
¹Under the Supplementary Vote system, if no candidate receives 50% of 1st choice votes, 2nd choice votes are added to the result for the top two 1st choice candidates. If a ballot gives a first and second preference to the top two candidates in either order, then their second preference is not counted, so that a second preference cannot count against a first, hence why the "total" vote for Livingstone and Norris is not the sum of first and second preferences.
²Percentage figures are not officially used on the final votes, they are produced here for illustration and are calculated by the candidates final vote divided by the total of final votes.
- Turnout: 1,752,303 (34.43%)
- As the ballot papers are counted electronically, totals for all second preferences are available, even though some did not contribute to the final result.
Ken Livingstone had sought the Labour Party nomination but was defeated by Frank Dobson. He described the result as 'tainted' because the election system gave greater weight to the votes of London Labour MPs, and decided to contest the election as an Independent candidate. On handing in nomination papers he was automatically expelled from membership of the Labour Party.
Steve Norris had lost the original selection ballot for Conservative candidate to Jeffrey Archer, but Archer stood down as a candidate when a newspaper printed a story accusing him of committing perjury during a 1987 libel trial (he was later convicted and imprisoned).
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