I’ve seen two people putting their names forward to succeed Steve Bullock as Mayor of Lewisham - Cllrs Damien Egan and Alan Hall
Here are some links - their web sites
On Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/alan.hall.90
and on Twitter
https://twitter.com/damienegan
https://twitter.com/cllralanhall
I don’t have any idea how this will play out - I assume it will be a matter of internal Lewisham Labour Party politics.
The other Labour candidate is Paul Bell
Whilst I could let Google do the work for me… how is Lewisham’s mayor elected/selected?
First each party must select their candidate. Different parties have different mechanisms but most seem to come down to a vote of members in the borough.
In May 2018 Lewisham voters will get two votes; a 1st and 2nd preference for their choice of mayor. A candidate needs 50% of the votes (plus 1) to win. If no candidate gets 50% in the first round all but two candidates are eliminated and the 2nd preference votes are redistributed to the top two candidates.
Oh. Is this new for Lewisham? I had always thought the Council members voted for the Mayor from among their own lot?
We had a referendum in 2001 on a directly elected mayor system.
Residents voted overwhelmingly (51.4%) to have a directly elected mayor. Steve Bullock was elected in 2002 and has remained in post for the last 15 years.
And Cllr Paul Maslin
Some good factual stuff here
Labour have chosen their candidate for the next mayor of Lewisham and have selected another Forest Hill resident - Damien Egan.
Apparently he won all three rounds, it wasn’t even close, which at least means he has good backing among the party. As he is almost certain to be our new Mayor and he’ll need all the help he can get.
Steve Bullock - dont like him, i want him gone.
