Election Name: | 2017 Lansing mayoral election |
Type: | Presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2013 Lansing mayoral election |
Previous Year: | 2013 |
Next Election: | 2021 Lansing mayoral election |
Next Year: | 2021 |
Election Date: | November 7, 2017 |
Candidate1: | Andy Schor |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 12,407 |
Percentage1: | 72.09% |
Candidate2: | Judi Brown Clarke |
Party2: | Independent (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 4,804 |
Percentage2: | 27.91% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Virg Bernero |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Andy Schor |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 2017 mayoral election in Lansing, Michigan, was held on November 7, 2017 to elect the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan. Andy Schor, a member of the Democratic Party, was elected to his first term as mayor.[1]
Twelve-year incumbent Virg Bernero, a Democrat, declined to seek re-election in 2017.[2]
Five candidates ran in the primary election: Andy Schor, a member of the Michigan House of Representatives; city council member and former athlete Judi Brown Clarke; former city council member Harold Leeman Jr.; Daniel Trevino, the son of a medical marijuana shop owner; and retiree Michael Joseph Gillenkirk, who previously worked for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Republican Party.[3] Schor and Clarke placed first and second in the primary and so advanced to the general election.[4]