The definition of elected officials here includes everyone from mayors (Boris Johnson) to MSPs, with the exception of local councillors.
A group of south-east Queensland mayors have launched a study to decide whether Brisbane should bid for the Games.
In short, elected executive mayors take politics out of local government.
Mayors are free in a way national leaders are not: they do not require armoured limousines to travel safely, but ride public transit (Bloomberg) or cycle (Boris).
Thousands of soldiers and federal police were guarding polling stations where violence and calls for boycotts threatened to mar elections for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayors and local officials.
David Cameron's ambition of seeing elected "Boris-style" mayors across Britain was thwarted on Friday after voters in nine English cities rejected the idea by referendum.
Praise for this model reached its zenith last month, as mayors, cultural attachés and city representatives descended on Bilbao for the UCLG Cities and Culture Conference.
Eight of these regarded the introduction of elected mayors with deep suspicion: mayors were wildcats free of party discipline.
Yorkshire's spokesman, Peter Box of Wakefield, was scornful of Leese's capitulation on mayors.
"It will be an important guide for you," Coates told the mayors in his letter.
Digging their heels in over the issue of elected mayors, South and West Yorkshire carved out wishy-washy deals with the Treasury which were deathly pale in comparison with that being celebrated and ever-embellished on the other side of the Pennines.
