The 2017 El Paso city elections will be held in May 2017 to elect the Mayor and City Council of El Paso, Texas. Incumbent Mayor Oscar Leeser is eligible for another term, but announced in July 2016 he will not seek another term. Leeser had a cancer-related surgery in 2016, but states that his decision is not because of his health. Instead, it is because he "ran to do things I thought were really important for our community and I did that."
The election is non-partisan; therefore there is no primary election. However, if no candidate wins a majority there will be a run-off election.
The mayor and council members elected in 2017 will serve through December 2020. The term is shortened because of a charter amendment to move city elections from May in odd-numbered years to November in even-numbered years.
Candidates
Emma Acosta (2008–present), city council representative
Jorge Artalejo, perennial candidate
Willie Cager, YISD basketball coach, director of the Willy Cager Foundation, and member of the 1966 UTEP Basketball team
Dee Margo, former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives
Elisa Morales, homemaker
Jaime Perez, perennial candidate
David Saucedo, owner of Saucedo Lock Company and former president of the board of direct of the Boys & Girls Club of El Paso
Charles Stapler, member of the El Paso County Historical Commission board
Jameel Toombs, personal trainer
Declined candidates
Estela Casas, KVIA news anchor
Cortney Niland, city council representative (2011–present)
Emma Schwartz, president and CEO of the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation
Joe Wardy, former mayor of El Paso (2003-2005)
Districts 2, 3, 4, and 7 will have elections in 2017. Emma Acosta, District 3 incumbent, and Carl Robinson, District 4 incumbent, are term limited and cannot run again. District 2 incumbent, Jim Tolbert, and District 7 incumbent, Lilia Limon, are eligible for re-elction.
Candidates
Alexsandra Annello, student
Dolores Baca, writer and housewife
Jud Burgess, artist and activist
Alexander Burnside, veteran and Bernie Sanders activist
Jim Tolbert, city council representative (2016–present)
Raul Valdez, UTEP teaching assistant
Results
Candidates
Jaime Barceleau, charitable executive director for the Paso del Norte Children's Development Center
Elias Camacho, Vietnam War veteran, retired El Paso Police Department detective, private investigator, and substitute teacher
Cassandra Hernandez-Brown, deputy director of Dynamic Workforce Solutions
Louis Pellicano, retired person
Antonio Williams, private practice immigration attorney, and State Democratic Executive Committeeman for Texas Senate District 29
Results
Candidates
Shane Haggerty, retired firefighter and Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees president
Sam Morgan, owner of El Paso Concealed Carry
Jose Plasencia, Green Party activist, chess teacher
Diana Ramos, Socorro Independent School District instructional aide and former employee of Congressman Beto O'Rourke
Results
Candidates
Gerardo Chacon, insurance agent
Lily Limon, city council representative (2013–present)
Henry Rivera, police officer
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