Election Name: | 2000 Anchorage mayoral election |
Flag Image: | Flag of Anchorage, Alaska.svg |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1997 Anchorage mayoral election |
Previous Year: | 1997 |
Next Election: | 2003 Anchorage mayoral election |
Next Year: | 2003 |
Election Date: | April 4, 2000 (first round) May 2, 2000 (runoff) |
Turnout: | 30.94% (first round) 35.63% (runoff) |
1Blank: | First-round vote |
2Blank: | First-round percentage |
3Blank: | Second-round vote |
4Blank: | Second-round percentage |
Candidate1: | George Wuerch |
Colour1: | c0c0c0 |
1Data1: | 12,681 |
2Data1: | 20.49% |
3Data1: | 32,167 |
4Data1: | 52.49% |
Candidate2: | Mark Begich |
Colour2: | c0c0c0 |
1Data2: | 24,920 |
2Data2: | 40.26% |
3Data2: | 20,116 |
4Data2: | 47.51% |
Candidate3: | Jack Frost |
Colour3: | c0c0c0 |
1Data3: | 11,396 |
2Data3: | 18.41% |
Candidate4: | Bob Bell |
Colour4: | c0c0c0 |
1Data4: | 6,034 |
2Data4: | 9.75% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Rick Mystrom |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | George Wuerch |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
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.[1] [2] Since no candidate had received a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held between the top-two finishers.[1]