Joe Anderson became the first directly elected Mayor of which city in May this year?
Joe Anderson (politician) Joe Anderson (politician) Joseph 'Joe' Anderson (born 24 January 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who is the first directly elected mayor of Liverpool, having been elected with 57% of the vote on 3 May 2012. He won a second term in May 2016 with 52.6% of the vote. He was previously leader of the Liverpool City Council from the 2010 Council election until the 2012 Mayoral election. He is the first Labour Leader of the Council since 1998, the same year he was first elected as a Councillor. He is also on the board of directors at Liverpool
Proposed directly elected mayor for the Dublin metropolitan area on the basis that its agenda would be swamped by the needs of the core urban centre. The Local Government Act 2001 provided for directly elected mayors beginning at the 2004 local elections, but a 2003 amendment repealed this provision. The government programme agreed by the Fianna Fáil–Green coalition formed after the 2007 general election promised to consider directly elected mayors, and a 2008 green paper proposed such a mayor for Dublin at first and other cities later. The minister John Gormley made a commitment to a Dublin mayor on 12 May 2009 and was supported by Fine Gael in