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  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2000",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If one of the candidates to be the elected mayor receives more than half of all the first preference votes given in the election that candidate is to be returned as the elected mayor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 wholly in force at 28.7.2001; Sch. 2 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 108; Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 28.7.2001 see s. 108(4)-(6)"
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      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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