2000 Anchorage mayoral election Turnout 30.94% (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%
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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