London mayoral election, 2000

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The first election to the office of Mayor of London took place on May 4, 2000.

Candidate	Party	1st pref	%	2nd pref	%	Final Round
Ken Livingstone \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=white\| \| align="left" \| Independent	667,877	39.0	178,809	12.6	776,427
Steve Norris \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#3333CC\| \| align="left" \| Conservative	464,434	27.1	188,041	13.2	564,137
Frank Dobson \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#CC0000\| \| align="left" \| Labour	223,884	13.1	228,095	16.0
Susan Kramer \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=\| \| align="left" \|	203,452	11.9	404,815	28.5
Ram Gidoomal \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#AA00AA\| \| align="left" \| Christian Peoples	42,060	2.4	56,489	4.0
Darren Johnson \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#99CC33\| \| align="left" \| Green	38,121	2.2	192,764	13.6
Michael Newland \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=navy\| \| align="left" \| British National	33,569	2.0	45,337	3.2
Damian Hockney \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#993366\| \| align="left" \| UK Independence	16,324	1.0	43,672	3.1
Geoffrey Ben-Nathan		Pro-Motorist Small Shop	9,956	0.6	23,021	1.6
Ashwin Tanna \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=white\| \| align="left" \| Independent	9,015	0.5	41,766	2.9
Geoffrey Clements \| style="width:10px" bgcolor=#ffe4e1\| \| align="left" \| Natural Law	5,470	0.3	18,185	1.3

Turnout: 1,752,303 (34.43%)
NB: Under 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.
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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