2008 London mayoral election

2008 London mayoral election

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Turnout	45.3% 8.38 pp
Candidate Boris Johnson Ken Livingstone Brian Paddick Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats First Round 1,043,761 893,887 235,585 Percentage 43.2% 37.0% 9.8% Swing 14.0pp 5.6pp Second Round 1,168,738 1,027,976 Eliminated Percentage 53.2% 46.8% Eliminated Swing 8.6pp 8.6pp
First preference votes by London borough. Blue boroughs are those with most first preference votes for Boris Johnson and red those for Ken Livingstone
Mayor before election Ken Livingstone Labour Elected mayor Boris Johnson Conservative

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The 2008 London mayoral election for the office of Mayor of London, England, was held on 1 May 2008. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson defeated incumbent Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone.^[1] It was the third London mayoral election, the previous elections being the first election in May 2000 and the second election in June 2004.

Johnson became the second Mayor of London and the first Conservative to hold the office since its creation in 2000. This became the first London Mayoral election in which the incumbent mayor was defeated by a challenger. The popular vote achieved by Johnson remained the largest polled by winning mayoral candidate until Labour candidate Sadiq Khan received 1,148,716 first-preference votes in 2016.^[2] The result was the first time that the Conservatives had won control of London-wide government since 1977.^[3]