2015 Nashville mayoral election

2015 Nashville mayoral election

← 2011 August 6, 2015 (first round)
September 10, 2015 (runoff)
Officially nonpartisan
2018 (special) →
Turnout28.39% Increase (first round) 8.68 pp
29.63% Increase (runoff) 1.24 pp[1]
 
Candidate Megan Barry David Fox Bill Freeman
Party Democratic Republican Democratic
First round 24,553
23.53%
23,754
22.77%
22,308
21.38%
Runoff 60,519
54.79%
49,694
44.99%
Eliminated

 
Candidate Howard Gentry Jr. Charles Robert Bone Linda Eskind Rebrovick
Party Democratic Democratic Republican
First round 12,110
11.61%
10,962
10.51%
5,827
5.59%
Runoff Eliminated Eliminated Eliminated

First-round results by precinct
Barry:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%
Fox:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Freeman:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%
Gentry:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      40–50%      70–80%
Bone:      <10%
     No data
Runoff results by precinct
Barry:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Fox:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
     No data

Mayor before election

Karl Dean
Democratic

Elected mayor

Megan Barry
Democratic

The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6, 2015, to elect the next mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.[2] Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held. In the runoff election, Democratic candidate Megan Barry was elected with 54.8% of the vote, defeating Republican Candidate David Fox.[3][4]

All Nashville municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but each candidate was affiliated with a political party.

  1. ^ "Election Statistics | Nashville.gov". www.nashville.gov. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
  2. ^ "Nashville 2015 mayor's race chatter begins". The Tennessean. December 3, 2012. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  3. ^ Garrison, Joey. "Megan Barry elected Nashville mayor". The Tennessean. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Linebaugh, Mack (September 11, 2015). "Nashville's Mayoral Runoff 2015: Live Updates". WPLN News. Retrieved January 19, 2024.