Elections are held in Syracuse, New York , to election the city's mayor . Currently, these elections are regularly scheduled to be held once every four years, with the elections taking place in the off-year immediately after United States presidential election years.
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2009 Syracuse mayoral election
The 2009 Syracuse mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009. The incumbent mayor , Democrat Matt Driscoll , was term limited. Democrat Stephanie Miner defeated Republican Steve Kimatian, 50%-39%, and Conservative Party of New York candidate Otis Jennings finished a distant 3rd, with 10% of the vote.[ 1] [ 2]
Alfonso Davis – Democratic political consultant
Carmen Harlow – former Syracuse Department of Public Works deputy commissioner
Stephanie Miner , Syracuse Common Councilor-at-Large[ 3] Joe Nicoletti – business development consultant, former New York State Assemblyman and Syracuse Common CouncilorSteve Kiatian defeated Otis Jennings. Jennings had carried the endorsement of the local Republican Party organization.[ 3]
Conservative nomination [ edit ] Otis Jennings, after receiving an overwhelming endorsement from the Syracuse Republican Party, Jennings lost in the September primary for the Republican nomination.[ 3] Conservative Party of New York .[ 5] The general election took place on November 3, 2009.
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2013 Syracuse mayoral election
The 2013 Syracuse mayoral election was held on November 5, 2013, in Syracuse, New York . The incumbent mayor , Democrat Stephanie Miner , ran for re-election. She defeated Conservative candidate Ian Hunter and Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, winning 68% of the vote.[ 7] [ 8] Republican Party did not field a candidate in this election, the first time in over a century that a Syracuse mayor ran unopposed by a major party candidate.[ 9]
Ian Hunter – project manager Hunter collected signatures to run on the Republican line but was kept off of the ballot by the efforts of the Onondaga Republican Party chairman.[ 14]
Kevin Bott – non-profit director[ 15] General election results [ edit ] The general election took place on November 5, 2013.
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2017 Syracuse mayoral election
Results by wardWalsh : 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%Williams : 40–50% 60–70% 70–80%
The 2017 mayoral election in Syracuse, New York was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in the election of Ben Walsh , an independent , to his first term as mayor.[ 17]
Incumbent mayor Stephanie Miner , a member of the Democratic Party , was first elected in 2009 and was re-elected in 2013 , but was term limited in 2017.[ 18] [ 19] Republican Party mayor in 1997, and in the 2013 election Republicans did not field a candidate.[ 20]
Five candidates appeared on the general election ballot: Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins , who had run for office 20 times since 1991; Democratic Party nominee Juanita Perez Williams, the city's former corporation counsel ; Independence Party , Reform Party and Upstate Jobs Party nominee Ben Walsh , a business development director and the son of U.S. Representative James T. Walsh ; Republican nominee Laura Lavine, a former Lafayette School District superintendent ; and Working Families Party nominee Joe Nicoletti , who remained on the Working Families party line after unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic nomination and did not campaign.[ 20] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27]
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2021 Syracuse mayoral election
Results by wardWalsh : 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%Bey : 50–60% 60–70%
The Syracuse mayoral election of 2021 was held November 2, 2021. Incumbent Independent mayor Ben Walsh was seeking re-election to a second term in office.[ 29] [ 30] [ 31] [ 32]
In 2017, incumbent Democratic mayor Stephanie Miner was term limited and could not seek reelection. Ben Walsh won the race to succeed her, defeating Democrat Juanita Perez Williams.[ 33] Republican politicians. He is the son of Jim Walsh , former U.S. Representative from New York's 25th congressional district , and the grandson of William Walsh , former U.S. representative from New York's 33rd congressional district and former Mayor of Syracuse.[ 34] Independent , and was the first Independent elected mayor of Syracuse in 104 years.[ 33] ballot lines : Independence , Reform , and a new line that he created for himself, Upstate Jobs. When Walsh confirmed that he would seek re-election, he did not clarify which lines he would campaign under.[ 29]
Whichever lines he pursues, he will face an uphill battle to get on the ballot, due to several developments since 2017. First, the Reform Party lost automatic ballot access in 2018 after failing to surpass 50,000 votes in that year's gubernatorial election .[ 35] 2020 presidential election . Parties who fail to meet the requirement can still get on the ballot via petition , but this is significantly more difficult, especially for minor parties.[ 36] [ 37]
Walsh sought the endorsement of the Working Families Party , one of four parties that surpassed the threshold for automatic ballot access in the 2020 presidential election (the other three are the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the Conservative Party ), but did not receive it.[ 32] [ 38] [ 39] [ 40] [ 41] write-in campaign .[ 40] [ 42]
The Onondaga County Democratic Committee endorsed Greene on February 17, 2021. 58% of the committee's members voted for Greene, while 42% voted for Bey. However, Bey chose to continue his candidacy and force a primary.[ 43] [ 44] [ 45] [ 46]
Campaign finance reports as of May 21, 2021
Candidate
Total raised
Khalid Bey
$25,716
Michael Greene
$87,470
[ 55]
The Syracuse Republican Committee endorsed Burman as its mayoral candidate on January 21.[ 30] [ 56] [ 57]
Campaign finance reports as of May 21, 2021
Candidate
Total raised
Thomas Babilon
$7,555
Janet Burman
$6,903
[ 55]
Conservative endorsement [ edit ] The Conservative Party endorsed Burman as its mayoral candidate.[ 56]
[ edit ] The Independence Party endorsed Walsh as its mayoral candidate on February 24. Because the party lost automatic ballot access in the 2020 presidential election , Walsh needed to collect 1,500 signatures in order to create an Independence line on the 2021 ballot.[ 40] [ 42]
Working Families endorsement [ edit ] The Syracuse Working Families Committee chose not to endorse any candidate in the mayoral election, meaning that its ballot line would go unfilled.[ 39]
Campaign finance reports as of July 19, 2021
Candidate (party)
Total raised
Ben Walsh (I)
$277,108
Khalid Bey (D)
$36,379
Janet Burman (R)
$8,657
[ 58]
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