<P> This was the first election to not feature either of the two previous holders of the office , Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson , who had run against each other in 2008 and 2012 . Johnson , as incumbent mayor , had chosen not to stand for re-election for a third term in office , having been elected as the Conservative Party MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election . The campaign was dominated by the personal battle between Goldsmith and Khan , and their contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds . Through his victory , Khan became the second Labour Party Mayor of London after Livingstone , and the first Muslim mayor of a European Union capital city . </P>
<P> This was the first election to not feature either of the two previous holders of the office , Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson , who had run against each other in 2008 and 2012 . Johnson , as incumbent mayor , had chosen not to stand for re-election for a third term in office , having been elected as the Conservative Party MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election . The campaign was dominated by the personal battle between Goldsmith and Khan , and their contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds . Through his victory , Khan became the second Labour Party Mayor of London after Livingstone , and the first Muslim mayor of a European Union capital city . </P>
in 2016 london elected its first blank mayor
in 2016 london elected its first blank mayor
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