London mayoral election, 2016

London mayoral election, 2016

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Turnout	45.3%
Candidate Sadiq Khan Zac Goldsmith Siân Berry Party Labour Conservative Green 1st Round vote 1,148,716 909,755 150,673 Percentage 44.2% 35.0% 5.8% 2nd Round vote 1,310,143 994,614 Eliminated Percentage 56.8% 43.2% Eliminated
Result of voting by London borough. Red boroughs are those with a plurality of (first-preference) votes for Sadiq Khan and blue are those with a plurality for Zac Goldsmith.
Mayor before election Boris Johnson Conservative Elected Mayor Sadiq Khan Labour

Labour Party Candidate Selection
Candidate	Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Round 4		Round 5
	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent
Sadiq Khan	32,926	37.5%	33,141	37.8%	34,813	40.0%	38,440	44.7%	48,151Y	58.9%
Tessa Jowell	26,121	29.7%	26,406	30.1%	27,272	31.3%	29,785	34.6%	33,575N	41.1%
Diane Abbott	14,798	16.8%	14,957	17.0%	15,878	18.2%	17,849N	20.7%
David Lammy	8,225	9.4%	8,392	9.6%	9,147N	10.5%
Christian Wolmar	4,729	5.4%	4,927N	5.6%
Gareth Thomas	1,055N	1.2%

Boris Johnson
Conservative

Sadiq Khan
Labour

The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London, on the same day as the London Assembly election. It was the fifth election to the position of Mayor, which was created in 2000 after a referendum in London. The election used a supplementary vote system.

The election was won by Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting, Sadiq Khan, who polled 56.8% of the votes in the head-to-head second round of voting over Conservative MP for Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith. Goldsmith was more than 25% ahead of the next candidate in the first round of voting, as part of a record field of twelve candidates. Of the twelve candidates only Khan, Goldsmith, and Green Party candidate Siân Berry achieved the requisite 5% minimum first round vote share to retain their deposit.

This was the first election to not feature either of the two previous holders of the office, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, who had run against each other in 2008 and 2012. Johnson, as incumbent mayor, had chosen not to stand for re-election for a third term in office, having been elected as the Conservative Party MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election. The campaign was dominated by the personal battle between Goldsmith and Khan, and their contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds. Through his victory, Khan became the second Labour Party Mayor of London after Livingstone, and the first Muslim mayor of a European Union capital city.