On May 5, voters of London elected a Mayor and a local assembly. Twelve parties entered the Mayoral race. London uses a modified form of instant runoff voting for its mayoral elections. See the wikipedia story about the election. The Labour Party nominee, Sadiq Khan, was elected. He did not have a majority of the first place votes, but the IRV process then counted second place votes and he won. He is the first Muslim to be elected Mayor of a large city in a Christian majority nation in Europe.

In order to receive repayment of the filing fee, a candidate had to poll at least 5% of the first choice votes. The only three parties to recover their filing fee were Labour, Conservative, and Green.

On May 6, a bill to provide for a Colorado presidential primary was introduced in the Senate and that very day passed both committees. It is SB 216. Like the House Bill that has been pending for a while, it provides for a March presidential primary, starting in 2020. Unlike HB 1454, it provides that only party members could vote in their own party’s presidential primary.

The Colorado legislature adjourns Wednesday, May 11.

This Washington Post story says that William Kristol met with Mitt Romney on May 5. Kristol is trying to recruit a Republican-leaning independent presidential candidate.