2000 London mayoral election

The 2000 London mayoral election was held on 4 May 2000 to elect the Mayor of London. It was the first election to the office established that year, after a referendum in London.

2000 London mayoral election

4 May 2000

Candidate Ken Livingstone Steven Norris Party Independent Conservative 1st Round vote 667,877 464,434 Percentage 39.0% 27.1% 2nd Round vote 776,427 564,137 Percentage 57.9% 42.1%   Candidate Frank Dobson Susan Kramer Party Labour Liberal Democrats 1st Round vote 223,884 203,452 Percentage 13.1% 11.9% 2nd Round vote Eliminated Eliminated Percentage Eliminated Eliminated

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

Mayor before election Position established Elected Mayor Ken Livingstone Independent

Results

Mayor of London election 4 May 2000 [1]
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%	108,550	776,427	57.9%	​​
	Conservative	Steven Norris	464,434	27.1%	99,703	564,137	42.1%	​​
	Labour	Frank Dobson	223,884	13.1%				​​
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Kramer	203,452	11.9%				​​
	Christian Peoples Alliance	Ram Gidoomal	42,060	2.4%				​​
	Green	Darren Johnson	38,121	2.2%				​​
	BNP	Michael Newland	33,569	2.0%				​​
	UKIP	Damian Hockney	16,324	1.0%				​​
	Pro-Motorist Small Shop	Geoffrey Ben-Nathan	9,956	0.6%				​​
	Independent	Ashwin Tanna	9,015	0.5%				​​
	Natural Law	Geoffrey Clements	5,470	0.3%				​​
	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.[4]
• Prof. Ram Gidoomal CBE, a businessman and author originally from British East Africa ran for the Christian Peoples Alliance.[5]
• Damian Hockney was a leading member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.[6] 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.[7]
• 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.[8] 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 2000 Tottenham by-election, 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.[9]

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 [10](he was later convicted and imprisoned).[11]

First round

Candidate		Votes		%
	Jeffrey Archer Y	15,716		71.2%
	Steven Norris	6,350		28.8%

Re-run

Candidate		Votes		%
	Steven Norris Y	12,903		73.3%
	Andrew Boff	4,712		26.7%

Source

References

1. "2000 election results for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly". London Elects. 5 May 2000. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
2. "Geoffrey Ben-Nathan". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
3. "Dr Geoffrey Clements". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
4. "Dobson: Labour's loyal hope". BBC News Online. 20 February 2000. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
5. Casciani, Dominic (23 March 2000). "Ram Gidoomal's London mission". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
6. "Damian Hockney". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
7. Main, Ed (19 January 2000). "Johnson's green scheme for London". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
8. "Michael Newland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
9. "Ashwin Tanna". BBC News Online. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
10. "Steve Norris: Tory who ran as a liberal". BBC. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
11. "Archer jailed for perjury". BBC. 19 July 2001. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

External links

• Results by GLA constituency