London mayoral election, 2000

London mayoral election, 2000

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 Democrat 1st Round vote 223,884 203,452 Percentage 13.1% 11.9%

First preference votes by London Assembly constituency. Blue constituencies are those with most first preference votes for Steven Norris and purple those for Ken Livingstone

Mayor before election Position established Elected Mayor Ken Livingstone Independent

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

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".^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4] Previously associated with the National Front he has since joined the Freedom Party.^[5]
• Steven Norris (born 24 May 1945) had served the Conservative Party as MP for both 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 city-wide business forum.^[6]

Candidate selection

Labour

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, MEPs, & GLA candidates, rather than rank-and-file party members,^[7] and decided to contest the election as an Independent candidate. On handing in nomination papers he was automatically expelled from the Labour Party.^[8]

First round

Candidate		Elected members	Individual members	Affiliated supporters	Total
	Frank Dobson	86.5%	35.3%	26.9%		49.6%
	Ken Livingstone	12.2%	54.9%	71.0%		46.0%
	Glenda Jackson	1.4%	9.8%	2.1%		4.4%

Second round

Candidate		Elected members	Individual members	Affiliated supporters	Total
	Frank Dobson	86.5%	40.1%	28.0%		51.5%
	Ken Livingstone	13.5%	59.9%	72.0%		48.5%

Source

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 ^[9](he was later convicted and imprisoned).^[10]

First round

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

Re-run

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

Source

Results

Mayor of London election 4 May 2000 [11]
Party		Candidate	1st Round	%	2nd Round	Total	First Round Votes  Transfer Votes
	Independent	Ken Livingstone	667,877	39.0%	108,540	776,417	​​
	Conservative	Steven Norris	464,434	27.1%	99,703	564,137	​​
	Labour	Frank Dobson	223,884	13.1%			​​
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Kramer	203,452	11.9%			​​
	Christian Peoples	Ram Gidoomal	43,060	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.

References

1. Profile of Ben-Nathan on bbc.co.uk
2. Profile of Clements from bbc.co.uk
3. Profile of Gidoomal
4. Profile of Newland from bbc.co.uk
5. Freedom Party website
6. Profile of Tanna on bbc.co.uk
7. "Now Ken must decide". The Guardian. 2000-02-20. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
8. "Labour expels Livingstone". BBC. 2000-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
9. "Steve Norris: Tory who ran as a liberal". BBC. 2000-05-05. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
10. "Archer jailed for perjury". BBC. 2001-07-19. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
11. "2000 election results for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly". London Elects. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

External links

• Results by GLA constituency