1973 Cleveland mayoral election

1973 Cleveland mayoral election

← 1971 November 6, 1973 1975 →
 
Nominee Ralph Perk Mercedes Cotner
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 90,350 45,267
Percentage 66.62% 33.38%

Mayor before election

Ralph Perk
Republican

Elected mayor

Ralph Perk
Republican

The Cleveland mayoral election of 1973 saw the reelection of Ralph Perk.

This was the first Cleveland mayoral election to use a nonpartisan system.[1]

  1. ^ Swanstrom, Todd (1985). The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 273n. ISBN 9780877223665.