 Benita came first among first preferences, but with less than half the votes.After last-placed Lucy Salek was eliminated and second preferences among her voters tallied, Benita had a majority of the votes cast and was chosen as the party's candidate.The former Conservative parliamentary candidates Azi Ahmed and Kishan Devani had previously been discussed as potential Liberal Democrat candidates for the mayoralty, as had Rachel Johnson, a journalist and sister to Boris Johnson, the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a former mayor of London.