2019 Nashville mayoral election

2019 Nashville mayoral election

← 2018 (special) August 1, 2019 (first round)
September 12, 2019 (runoff)
Officially nonpartisan
2023 →
Turnout23.64% Increase (first round) 2.39 pp
20.96% Decrease (runoff) 2.68 pp[1]
 
Candidate John Cooper David Briley
Party Democratic Democratic
First round 35,676
34.98%
25,786
25.28%
Runoff 62,440
69.12%
27,281
30.20%

 
Candidate Carol Swain John Ray Clemmons
Party Republican Democratic
First round 22,387
21.95%
16,391
16.07%
Runoff Eliminated Eliminated

First-round results by precinct
Cooper:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      60–70%
Briley:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%
Swain:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%
Clemmons:      30–40%
     Tie
     No data
Runoff results by precinct
Cooper:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      <90%
Briley:      50–60%      60–70%
     No data

Mayor before election

David Briley
Democratic

Elected mayor

John Cooper
Democratic

The 2019 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 1, 2019, to elect the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor David Briley, who succeeded Megan Barry following her resignation and won a special election to fill the remainder of her term, ran for re-election.[2] In the August election, Briley came in second behind city councilman John Cooper; however, no candidate took more than 50 percent of the vote, forcing a runoff between Cooper and Briley on September 12, 2019.[3] Cooper won the runoff definitively with 69 percent of the vote.[4]

All Nashville municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but candidates can be affiliated with a political party.

  1. ^ "Election Statistics | Nashville.gov". www.nashville.gov. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
  2. ^ "Nashville Mayor David Briley kicks off re-election fundraising". The Tennessean. November 16, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  3. ^ "John Cooper leads David Briley as two head to September runoff battle in Nashville mayoral race". The Tennessean. August 2, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Jeong, Yihyun (September 12, 2019). "John Cooper wins Nashville mayoral race, defeats incumbent Mayor David Briley in landslide". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. Retrieved September 13, 2019.