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November 7, 2017
  
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Atlanta mayoral election, 2017

The city of Atlanta, Georgia will hold a non-partisan mayoral election on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. Incumbent Mayor Kasim Reed, a member of the Democratic Party who has been in office since 2010, is ineligible to run for re-election as he will have served two terms.

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If no candidate receives an absolute majority, a runoff will be held between the top two finishers.

Declared

  • Peter Aman, former Chief Operating Officer of Atlanta
  • Al Bartell, Green Party Candidate
  • Alex Barrella, Cartoonist
  • Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta City Councilmember (District 11)
  • Vincent Fort, Georgia State Senator
  • Kwanza Hall, Atlanta City Councilmember (District 2)
  • Debra Ann Hampton
  • Ceasar Mitchell, Atlanta City Council President
  • Mary Norwood, Atlanta City Councilmember (Post 2 At Large) and candidate for Mayor in 2009
  • Kimberley Johnson Obasuyi
  • Robb Pitts, former Atlanta City Councilmember, current Fulton County Commissioner (District 2, At-Large)
  • Michael Sterling, Former Director of the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency
  • Cathy Woolard, former Atlanta City Council President
  • Tommy Youngblood Jr, Former Civil Rights Activist for the NAACP. LGBT Advocate.

    • Potential

  • Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Councilmember (Post 1 At Large)
  • Felicia Moore, Atlanta City Councilmember (District 9)
  • Ivory Young, Atlanta City Councilmember (District 3)

    • Dropped Out

  • Margaret Kaiser, Georga State Representative, District 59, 2007-2016. Dropped out October 25, 2016.

    • References

    Atlanta mayoral election, 2017 Wikipedia
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