Who have the Conservatives chosen as their candidate to run for the 2016 London Mayor elections
2016 London mayoral election went into a primary, registration to which was open anyone on the electoral roll in London. The candidate was announced on 2 October 2015 to be Zac Goldsmith, journalist, author and MP for Richmond Park. The defeated nominees were: Andrew Boff, leader of the Conservative Party in the London Assembly; Stephen Greenhalgh, businessman and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; and Syed Kamall, academic, Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists, and an MEP for London. Goldsmith, a member of the prominent Goldschmidt family, grew up in Ham, London. His early career was spent working in think-tanks and for "The
London mayoral elections London mayoral elections The London mayoral election for the office of Mayor of London takes place every four years. The first election was in held May 2000, and four subsequent elections have taken place. The latest mayoral election took place in 2016. The electoral system used for London mayor elections is the supplementary vote, where voters express a first and second choice of candidate, if no candidate receives an absolute majority of first choice votes, all but the two leading candidates are eliminated, and the votes of those eliminated redistributed according to their second choice votes to determine the winner.