On November 7, 2006,

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, held an election for mayor of the district. It determined the successor to two-term

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Anthony A. Williams, who did not run for re-election. The Democratic primary was held on September 12. The winner of both was

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, the representative for Ward 4 on the

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. He took office on January 2, 2007, becoming the sixth directly elected mayor since the establishment of

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in the District, and — at 35 — the youngest elected mayor of a major American city in U.S. history.

Candidates

General Election

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*David Kranich - Republican Party *Chris Otten - D.C. Statehood Green Party In addition to the candidates above, the following candidates lost in the primary election.

Democratic Party primary

* Linda W. Cropp - DC Council Chair, Cropp was considered Fenty's rival as the frontrunner for the mayoral primary, although Fenty took a lead in the polls about two months before the election. *

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, Ward 5 Council Representative * Michael A. Brown, who consistently had trailed the pack in polling data, dropped out of the race September 8, and announced he was throwing his support to Cropp.

Republican Party primary

David W. Kranich ran in the Republican Party primary election. Albert Ceccone gathered signatures to run on the ballot as well, but after a challenge by Kranich, the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics declared many of the signatures invalid. Consequently, Ceccone did not have enough valid signatures to appear on the ballot, and only Kranich's name appeared as running for mayor on the Republican primary ballot. Kranich received 65% of the vote.

Statehood Green Party primary

Chris Otten ran unopposed for the Statehood Green party's primary election. Otten received 50% of the vote.

Endorsements

*Fenty received the endorsements of, most notably, ''

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'' and former mayor

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. *Cropp received the endorsement of, most notably, outgoing mayor Anthony A. Williams. *Orange received the endorsement of, most notably, recently terminated Metrobus driver Sidney Davis, as highlighted in the August 21, 2006 article,
Soapbox on Wheels
, in ''The Washington Post''. *Johns received the endorsement of, most notably, ''

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''.

References

External links

Slate profile of Kranich
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