The 2000 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 4 and May 2, 2000, to elect the

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. It saw election of

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. Incumbent mayor

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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. Since no candidate had received a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held between the top-two finishers.

Results

First round

Runoff

References

Anchorage Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population. The Anchorage metropolita ...

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