London mayoral election, 2000
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First preference votes by London Assembly constituency. Blue constituencies are those with most first preference votes for Steven Norris and grey those for Ken Livingstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This article is part of a series on the politics and government of London |
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The first election to the office of Mayor of London took place on 4 May 2000.
Results
Mayor of London election 4 May 2000 [1] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | First round votes Transfer votes | |||||
Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | |||||
Independent | Ken Livingstone | 667,877 | 39.0% | 108,540 | 776,417 | 57.9% |
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Conservative | Steven Norris | 464,434 | 27.1% | 99,703 | 564,137 | 42.1% |
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Labour | Frank Dobson | 223,884 | 13.1% |
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Liberal Democrat | Susan Kramer | 203,452 | 11.9% |
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Christian Peoples | Ram Gidoomal | 43,060 | 2.4% |
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Green | Darren Johnson | 38,121 | 2.2% |
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BNP | Michael Newland | 33,569 | 2.0% |
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UKIP | Damian Hockney | 16,324 | 1.0% |
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Pro-Motorist Small Shop | Geoffrey Ben-Nathan | 9,956 | 0.6% |
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Independent | Ashwin Tanna | 9,015 | 0.5% |
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Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements | 5,470 | 0.3% |
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Independent win |
- 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.
Candidates
- Geoffrey Ben-Nathan stood as a PRO-MaSS (Pro-motorist and Small Shop) candidate, campaigning on a platform of stopping the use of motorists as "wallets on wheels".[2]
- Dr. Geoffrey Clements ran for the Natural Law Party, of which he was the leader. A doctor of physics from the University of Sussex, he also trained as a teacher in the techniques of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.[3]
- Frank Dobson (born 15 March 1940), the Labour Party candidate, was the MP for Holborn and St. Pancras.
- Prof. Ram Gidoomal CBE, a businessman and author originally from British East Africa ran for the Christian Peoples Alliance.[4]
- Damian Hockney was a leading member of the United Kingdom Independence Party. He has since been a member of Veritas and is now the leader of One London.
- Darren Johnson (born 1966) was a leading member of the Green Party of England and Wales who was elected to the London Assembly in 2000.
- Susan Kramer (born 22 July 1950) was the candidate for the Liberal Democrats. She has since been elected MP for Richmond Park.
- Ken Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) had been leader of the Greater London Council and MP for Brent East, both for the Labour Party.
- Michael Newland was the candidate for the British National Party, at the time serving as the party's national treasurer.[5] Previously associated with the National Front he subsequently joined the Freedom Party.
- Steven Norris (born 24 May 1945) had served the Conservative Party as MP for Oxford East and Epping Forest.
- Ashwinkumar Tanna, who had been a candidate for UKIP in the Tottenham by-election, 2000, ran on an independent ticket with a range of policies including opposing privatisation of London Underground, local involvement in policing and the establishment of a citywide business forum.[6]
Candidate selection
Labour
Conservatives
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 [7](he was later convicted and imprisoned).[8]
Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Jeffrey Archer |
15,716 | 71.2% | ||
Steven Norris | 6,350 | 28.8% |
Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Steven Norris |
12,903 | 73.3% | ||
Andrew Boff | 4,712 | 26.7% |
References
- ↑ "2000 election results for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly". London Elects. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ Profile of Ben-Nathan on bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Profile of Clements from bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Profile of Gidoomal
- ↑ Profile of Newland from bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Profile of Tanna on bbc.co.uk
- ↑ "Steve Norris: Tory who ran as a liberal". BBC. 2000-05-05. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ↑ "Archer jailed for perjury". BBC. 2001-07-19. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
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