| Mayor of Croydon | |
|---|---|
| Style | Mayor [1] |
| Appointer | Electorate of Croydon |
| Term length | Four years |
| Inaugural holder | Jason Perry |
| Website | https://jasonperry.uk |
The Mayor of Croydon is a directly elected mayor responsible for the executive function of Croydon London Borough Council. The current mayor is Jason Perry of the Conservative Party, elected in May 2022, and the first holder of the post.
The Local Government Act 2000 allowed local authorities to change from the leader-and-cabinet system of governance to a directly elected mayor model. The change needs to be established by a referendum, either arranged by the council or triggered by a petition. A campaign group supporting an elected mayor for Croydon called DEMOC started a petition to change to the mayoral system in February 2020, which they submitted to the council in September 2020. The mayoral system would replace the leader-and-cabinet system, whereby the leader of the council is chosen by the majority party or coalition of parties.
In January 2021, the council announced that a referendum would be held in October of that year. [2] The government minister Luke Hall said that the council should hold the referendum in May 2021 instead, alongside elections for the Mayor of London and London Assembly. The Labour councillor Sean Fitzsimons defended the choice to hold the referendum in October, saying that the prospective mayor could then be elected alongside the council in May 2022. [3] The council also cited technical limitations about how it could spend money under the terms of the council's section 114 notice which required Hall to amend the law to facilitate the referendum. [4] The Conservatives, including the Conservative MP Chris Philp, campaigned in favour of an elected mayor. [5] Labour opposed the mayoral system, including both Croydon Labour MPs. The Green Party also opposed the mayoral system, instead advocating a change to the committee system. [6]
The referendum question was "How would you like the London Borough of Croydon to be run?", with the options being "By a leader who is an elected councillor chosen by a vote of the other elected councillors. This is how the council is run now." or "By a mayor who is elected by voters. This would be a change from how the council is run now." [7] The result of the referendum was a large majority in favour of the mayoral system, with more than 80% of valid votes being cast in favour of the change. [8]
| Choice | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
 Elected mayor | 47,165 | 80.4 |
| Cabinet system | 11,519 | 19.6 |
| Total votes | 58,897 | 100.00 |
| Source: [9] | ||
The Conservatives selected their council group leader Jason Perry to be their mayoral candidate in October 2021. [10] Labour began their selection process in October 2021. The former deputy mayor of London Val Shawcross was selected as the Labour candidate in December 2021. [11] The Green Party selected Peter Underwood as their candidate in November 2021. [12] The businessperson Farah London, who stood as an independent candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election, was announced as the mayoral candidate for the Taking the Initiative Party. [13]
| Croydon Mayoral Election 5 May 2022 [14] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | First round votes Transfer votes | |||||
| Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | |||||
| Conservative | Jason Perry | 33,413 | 34.8% | 5,199 | 38,612 | 50.4% | | ||
| Labour | Val Shawcross | 31,352 | 32.7% | 6,671 | 38,023 | 49.6% | | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Howard | 9,967 | 10.4% | | |||||
| Independent | Andrew Pelling | 6,807 | 7.1% | | |||||
| Green | Peter Underwood | 6,193 | 6.5% | | |||||
| Taking the Initiative | Farah London | 5,768 | 6.0% | | |||||
| Independent | Winston McKenzie | 1,324 | 1.4% | | |||||
| Independent | Gavin Palmer | 1,114 | 1.2% | | |||||
| Turnout | 95,938 | Rejected ballots: | |||||||
| Registered electors | |||||||||
| Conservative win | |||||||||
| Political party | Name | Term of office & mandate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jason Perry | 9 May 2022 | Incumbent | 2022 | |
| 270 days | |||||
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