Metro mayors' previous experience as councillors and MPs, 2000 to present

A table from the Institute for Government showing metro mayors’ previous experience as councillors and MPs, 2000 to present, where some mayors such as Ken Livingstone had over 10 years of experience as both an MP and a councillor but others such as Oliver Coppard had experience in neither role.

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Source: Institute for Government analysis of publicly available sources Notes: Numbers rounded to the nearest year. Metro mayor includes the Mayor of Greater London and combined authority mayors. Ken Livingstone was elected for his first mayoral term as an independent and his second as Labour party candidate. Jamie Driscoll was elected as a Labour mayor but resigned from the party in July 2023. Dan Jarvis remained an MP while mayor, but this table only includes his experience before election Get the data Embed