2000 Anchorage mayoral election

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2000 Anchorage mayoral election
Flag of Anchorage, Alaska.svg
←  1997 April 4, 2000 (first round) [1]
May 2, 2000 (runoff) [2] 		2003  →
Turnout30.94% (first round)
35.63% (runoff)
  George Wuerch 2003 (1).jpeg Mark Begich, official Senate photo portrait, 2009 (1).jpg 3x4.svg
Candidate George Wuerch Mark Begich Jack Frost
First-round vote12,68124,92011,396
First-round percentage20.49%40.26%18.41%
Second-round vote32,16720,116
Second-round percentage52.49%47.51%
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CandidateBob Bell
First-round vote6,034
First-round percentage9.75%
Mayor before election

Rick Mystrom
Republican

Elected mayor

George Wuerch
Republican

The 2000 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 4 and May 2, 2000, to elect the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. It saw election of George Wuerch.

Contents

Incumbent mayor Rick Mystrom was term-limited.

Proposition 10, passed in 1999, required mayoral candidates to receive 50% of the votes cast in a race to avoid a runoff. [3] [4] Since no candidate had received a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held between the top-two finishers. [3]

Results

First round

First round results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Nonpartisan Mark Begich 24,920 40.26
Nonpartisan George Wuerch 12,681 20.49
NonpartisanJack Frost11,39618.41
NonpartisanBob Bell6,0349.75
NonpartisanDave Donely2,7444.43
NonpartisanPete Kott2,2893.70
NonpartisanTheresa Nangle Obermeyer1,1781.90
NonpartisanJohn Kehr Jr.900.15
NonpartisanRace G. Jones740.12
Write-inWrite-ins910.15
Turnout 61,49730.94

Runoff

Runoff results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Nonpartisan George Wuerch 32,167 52.49
Nonpartisan Mark Begich 20,11647.51
Turnout 69,02535.63

References

  1. 1 2 "OFFICIAL CUMULATIVE WITH A & O REGULAR ELECTION APRIL 04, 2000 MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. April 17, 2000. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE RUN-OFF ELECTION MAY 2, 2000" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "RESULTS REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION APRIL 4, 2000" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Anchorage Alaska A.O. No. 2007-152" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. November 6, 2007. Retrieved November 13, 2019.


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