2000 Anchorage mayoral election

2000 Anchorage mayoral election

← 1997 April 4, 2000 (first round)[1]
May 2, 2000 (runoff)[2]
2003 →
Turnout30.94% (first round)
35.63% (runoff)
 
Candidate George Wuerch Mark Begich Jack Frost
First-round vote 12,681 24,920 11,396
First-round percentage 20.49% 40.26% 18.41%
Second-round vote 32,167 20,116
Second-round percentage 52.49% 47.51%

 
Candidate Bob Bell
First-round vote 6,034
First-round percentage 9.75%

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.

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]

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  3. ^ a b "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.