|
The 2016 London mayoral election will be held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London, on the same day as the London Assembly election. It will be the fifth election to the position of Mayor, which was created in 2000 after a referendum in London. The election will use a supplementary vote system. Incumbent Mayor Boris Johnson has chosen not to run for re-election for a third term in office, having been elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 General Election. The main contenders are expected to be the Conservative candidate, Zac Goldsmith, the MP for Richmond Park, and the Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting, both of whom were selected in September 2015, though candidates from several other parties are also standing. ==Background== The position of Mayor of London was created in 2000 after a referendum in London. The Mayor has a range of responsibilities covering policing, transport, housing, planning, economic development, arts, culture and the environment, controlling a budget of around £17 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/what-mayor-london-and-london-assembly-do )〕 Mayors are elected for a period of four years, with no term limits. There have been two Mayors since the position's creation. The outgoing mayor, Boris Johnson of the Conservative Party was elected as Mayor in 2008, defeating incumbent Labour Party mayor Ken Livingstone. Johnson was re-elected, again ahead of Livingstone, in the 2012 election. Neither Livingstone nor Johnson will be standing in 2016, making it the first London mayoral election which Livingstone will not be contesting. Since the previous mayoral vote, Labour took the majority of London votes and seats at the 2015 General Election, despite the Conservative Party winning the vote nationally.〔 Dozens of other independent candidates and minor parties are likely to contest the election; 〔 of these the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) (8.1%), the Liberal Democrats (7.7%, 1 seat) and the Green Party (4.7%) were the most popular parties in London at the 2015 election, though in 2012 no third party candidate received more than 4.5% of the first preference votes for mayor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「London mayoral election, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|