The 2018 Nashville mayoral special election took place on May 24, 2018, and elected the

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of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

David Briley Clifton David Briley (born January 8, 1964) is an American politician. A Democrat, he was the eighth mayor of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. He was elected in 2015 as vice-mayor and was sworn in as acting mayor after Megan Barry's ...

, a

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who became interim mayor after the resignation of

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, won outright without a runoff election. Former Mayor Megan Barry resigned on March 6, 2018, and the Davidson County Election Commission scheduled an election for August 2, 2018 to coincide with the state primary elections,

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elections and the election of several other municipal officials. However, mayoral candidate Ludye Wallace sued on the basis of state law (T.C.A. § 2-14-102) and a 2007 Metropolitan government charter amendment, both requiring an earlier election if the next general metropolitan election was more than twelve months away. The

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agreed with Wallace's argument, unanimously ordering a mayoral election between May 21 and May 25. Early voting was scheduled from May 4 to May 19. The election is officially nonpartisan. If no candidate had won a majority of the vote, a runoff would have been held on June 28 between the top two finishers.

Candidates

Fourteen candidates nominated for the mayoral election.

was the sole candidate in support of Nashville's transit plan, which was decided in a referendum on May 1. Nashville voters overwhelmingly rejected the plan, by about a 2–1 margin.

Declared

* Carlin J. Alford *

* Ralph Bristol * Jeff Obafemi Carr * Julia Clark-Johnson * Roy Dale * Erica Gilmore * Albert Hacker * David L. Hiland *

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* Jeffrey A. Napier * Jon Sewell * Carol M. Swain * Ludye N. Wallace

Results

References

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