In a landslide, Freddie O’Connell has won the runoff election for mayor of Nashville with 64% of the vote. Runoff elections for Metro Council seats and a special election for the state representative in District 51 have also concluded. Catch up with WPLN’s election night coverage here.
Nashville’s next mayor will be Freddie O’Connell
Freddie O’Connell is officially moving up from councilmember to the head of Nashville’s Metro government. Voters chose the progressive candidate, O’Connell, as the city’s new mayor in a runoff election on Thursday.
Nashville mayoral runoff: Here’s what Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli say on 5 key topics.
WPLN asked Nashville’s mayoral candidates questions from listeners. Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli’s answers offer a look into two very different candidates.
Don’t dream it’s (almost) over: the mayoral runoff in Davidson County
Today is Election Day! It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The 2023 mayoral race is finally coming to a close. Alice Rolli and Freddie O’Connell have made it to the runoff, and only one will emerge victorious.
Early voting for the Nashville runoff ends with a spike in turnout
Nashville early voting ended this weekend with a total of 68,319 Nashvillians — or about 14% of registered voters — making their decisions on a ballot headlined by the mayoral runoff between candidates Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli.
Nashville mayoral forum with Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli
Our city is about to choose a new mayor, and election day is less than two weeks away — Thursday, September 14th.
Nashville’s mayoral finalists both say they’ll pursue a transit referendum. Here’s what they envision.
Among the biggest cities in the U.S., Nashville stands apart because it lacks a dedicated tax to fund transit. Establishing one would likely mean a ballot referendum, put forth by the mayor and decided on by voters. Both mayoral finalists have said they plan to do this.
Both candidates for Nashville mayor want more families to enroll in MNPS. They have vastly different strategies to do it.
The two candidates running to be Nashville’s next mayor are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. But one thing they agree on is the need to increase enrollment in the city’s public school system.
Nashville’s mayoral finalists differ politically — and in campaign fundraising.
Over the first few weeks of July, Freddie O’Connell gathered more than twice as much in donations as Alice Rolli, and he has double the funds in hand for the runoff sprint.
Who voted for who? Nashville mayoral election maps show which areas voted for each candidate
In the days since the election, several maps have emerged that detail the roughly 101,000 votes in Nashville’s mayoral race.
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