- 2022 Milwaukee mayoral special election
- 2024 Milwaukee mayoral election
- Cavalier Johnson
- 2022 United States local elections
- 2024 Wisconsin elections
- 2020 Wisconsin elections
- 2022 United States elections
- Milwaukee
- 2024 United States elections
- Mayoral elections in Lubbock
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The 2022 Milwaukee mayoral special election was held on April 5, 2022, concurrent with Wisconsin's spring general election, to elect a new mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following the resignation of mayor Tom Barrett in December 2021. Acting mayor Cavalier Johnson, who had been president of the common council when Barrett resigned, won the election, receiving 71% of the vote and defeating alderman Bob Donovan. Johnson became the first African American elected mayor of Milwaukee.
Municipal elections in Wisconsin are nonpartisan. A nonpartisan primary election was held on February 15, 2022, in which the top two vote-getters advanced to the April general election. This special election was the first open race for mayor of Milwaukee since 2004.
Candidates
= Advanced to general
=Bob Donovan, Milwaukee alderman and candidate for mayor in 2016
Cavalier Johnson, Milwaukee Common Council president and acting mayor
= Eliminated in primary
=Sheila Conley-Patterson
Marina Dimitrijevic, Milwaukee alderwoman and former chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors
Earnell Lucas, Milwaukee County sheriff
Nick McVey
Michael Sampson
Lena Taylor, Wisconsin state senator, former Wisconsin state assemblywoman, and candidate for mayor in 2020
= Withdrew
=Daniel Riemer, Wisconsin state assemblyman
= Declined
=Chris Abele, former Milwaukee County Executive
Mandela Barnes, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and former Wisconsin state assemblyman (running for U.S. Senate)
David Bowen, Wisconsin state assemblyman
David Clarke, former Milwaukee County sheriff
Evan Goyke, Wisconsin state assemblyman
Chris Larson, former minority leader of the Wisconsin Senate
Chantia Lewis, Milwaukee alderman
Michael Murphy, Milwaukee alderman
Tearman Spencer, Milwaukee city attorney
Endorsements
Primary election
= Polling
== Results
=General election
= Results
=Notes
Partisan clients