He oversaw substantial transport reforms, and the establishment of regional development agencies and the London mayoralty.
In places like Newcastle and Manchester there is little enthusiasm for a Middlesbrough-type mayoralty.
There are important differences between the ways Mr Johnson and Mr Livingstone have approached the mayoralty.
Still, toward the end of his mayoralty, one community after another seemed to turn on him.
If the mayoralty is to become a serious job, attracting serious candidates, this must change.
So far, his CEO mayoralty, if not beloved, has been praised for its efficiency.
Trevor Phillips, one of Labour's favoured candidates for the mayoralty of London, also educates his children privately.
That compares to 37% in 2007, the last year of Ken Livingstone's mayoralty.
In the months before his dismissal from the mayoralty, his cynicism was clear.
For that to happen, the mayoralty itself would have to be radically changed.
There have been programs to re-plant palm trees and the Baghdad Mayoralty held a conference, which discussed preserving the city's heritage, according to Pieri.
If he stands again, and is re-elected, the mayoralty could give him a platform for a presidential challenge as it did for Mr Chirac in 1995.
Twice most recently last November it won the mayoralty of the capital, Asuncion.
The point being that two able, upwardly mobile MPs might, by then, see the mayoralty as a job which offered more scope than most ministerial posts.
He said the allegations were unfounded and untrue and said he was resigning so that the claims would not "obscure the important business" of the mayoralty.
But with Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-unaffiliated Mayor Michael Bloomberg facing a term limit this year, the GOP field has become more crowded since Allon began eying the mayoralty in 2011.
The awarding of city status - there are three new ones and a lord mayoralty for Armagh - is a decision taken by the Queen on ministerial advice.
It will face opposition: perhaps a fifth of the 513 deputies may stand for some mayoralty or other next year, and some will object to constraints on future spending.
In a recent election for the mayoralty of the city of Buenos Aires, the candidate of Argentinean president, Nestor Kirchner, was defeated by a huge margin of sixty one to thirty four percent.
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There is every chance that if the Democrats regain the mayoralty after Mr Giuliani steps down and New Yorkers rarely elect two Republican mayors in a row they will reverse many of his policing policies.
His caution is also explained by the limited powers granted to the mayoralty on its creation in 2000 (the separate, ancient post of Lord Mayor concerns only the City of London, the central financial district).
The Government's expectation is that only one new city will be created as a result of the diamond jubilee competition and, similarly, that only one existing city will be granted a lord mayoralty or lord provostship.
For one thing, the show focuses not on LaGuardia's famous mayoralty, which lasted for three terms from 1934 to 1945, but on the pre-mayor phase of his career, when he was a lawyer helping the city's downtrodden and then a congressman.
"Put one mistake aside, he is by far the most qualified and hard-working candidate" to seek the mayoralty in years, Mr. Schwartz wrote in the invitation for the event, which is to be held Wednesday at Loi Restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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"I think there's a feeling that Ken wasn't fairly treated over the mayoral selection last time and if Ken is back then I hope we would allow him to put his name forward for a fair selection procedure for the mayoralty nomination next time".
Other things being equal, immigrants are more likely to vote Labour than the population as a whole, yet the rise in London's migrant population did not stop the Tories' Boris Johnson from taking the mayoralty from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008 and holding on to it earlier this year.
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