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The 2025 mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi will take place on June 3, 2025, alongside other Jackson municipal races. Primary elections will take place on April 1st. [ 1 ] Incumbent Democratic mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is running for re-election to a third term in office.
The 2021 mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi took place on June 8, 2021, alongside other Jackson municipal races. Primary elections took place on April 6, and the primary runoff was scheduled on April 27. Incumbent mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba was re-elected to a second term in office with 69.1% of the vote. [1]
The 2017 mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi took place on June 6, 2017, alongside other Jackson municipal races. Chokwe Antar Lumumba, son of late former mayor Chokwe Lumumba, was elected mayor in a landslide in the general election after defeating eight other candidates, including incumbent mayor Tony Yarber, in the primary.
As people tiredly shuffled out of the office Tuesday night, Jackson's Municipal Clerk Angela Harris and Sandra Griffin McCall, the city's Ward 3 Election Commissioner, kept repeating that the ...
The post of Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, was begun in 1834 and was originally referred to as "President of Selectmen" before being changed to "Mayor". Harvey Johnson Jr. elected in 1997 became the city's first black mayor. All of the mayors since have also been African American.
The sun had barely broken over the treetops on Election Day morning, and the line at Precinct 85 at Jackson Fire Station 26 was already well formed. Latasha Willis, first in line, arrived at 6:40 a.m.
Everything you need to cast your ballot in the Tuesday, Nov. 7 Mississippi elections is here in one spot, from previews of the races to voting info.
He is the son of former mayor and Black nationalist activist Chokwe Lumumba, who served briefly as mayor of Jackson before his death in 2014. [4] He was first elected in 2017. In the primary election, Lumumba soundly [5] won the Democratic nomination, defeating both incumbent mayor Tony Yarber and State Senator John Horhn. [6]