2019 Kansas City mayoral election

2019 Kansas City mayoral election

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Candidate Quinton Lucas Jolie Justus
Popular vote 39,216[1] 27,747[1]
Percentage 58.56%[1] 41.44%[1]

Mayor before election

Sly James
Democratic

Elected mayor

Quinton Lucas
Democratic

The 2019 Kansas City mayoral election took place on June 18, 2019, to elect the next mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan.[2]

Incumbent mayor Sly James, in office since 2011, was term-limited and could not seek the office again.[3]

In the nonpartisan primary held on April 2, 2019,[4] city council members Jolie Justus and Quinton Lucas were the top-two vote winners[5][6] with 23 and 18 percent of the vote, respectively. In the general election on June 18, 2019, Lucas got 59 percent vs. 41 percent for Justus.

  1. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference electionresults was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 2019 Mayor & Council Election Guide, Kansas City, Wikidata Q58808946
  3. ^ Abouhalkah, Yael T. (May 27, 2015). "Let's skip ahead and peek at Kansas City's 2019 mayoral race". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  4. ^ "Kansas City Mayor - Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  5. ^ Kite, Allison; Vockrodt, Steve; Marson, Andy (April 2, 2019). "Council members Justus, Lucas win Kansas City mayoral primary, will face off in June". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  6. ^ Next Scheduled Election, Kansas City, Missouri, Wikidata Q63063817