2015 Nashville mayoral election

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2015 Nashville mayoral election
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←  2011 August 6, 2015 (first round)
September 10, 2015 (runoff)
Officially nonpartisan		 2018 (special)  →
Turnout28.39% Increase2.svg (first round) 8.68 pp
29.63% Increase2.svg (runoff) 1.24 pp [1]
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Candidate Megan Barry David FoxBill Freeman
Party Democratic Republican Democratic
First round24,553
23.53%		23,754
22.77%		22,308
21.38%
Runoff60,519
54.79%		49,694
44.99%		Eliminated
 
CandidateHoward Gentry Jr.Charles Robert BoneLinda Eskind Rebrovick
Party Democratic Democratic Republican
First round12,110
11.61%		10,962
10.51%		5,827
5.59%
RunoffEliminatedEliminatedEliminated
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First-round results by precinct
Barry:     <10%     10–20%     20–30%     30–40%     40–50%     50–60%
Fox:     <10%     10–20%     20–30%     30–40%     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
Freeman:     <10%     10–20%     20–30%     30–40%
Gentry:     <10%     10–20%     20–30%     40–50%     70–80%
Bone:     <10%
     No data
Runoff results by precinct
Barry:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Fox:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
     No data
Mayor before election

Karl Dean
Democratic

Elected Mayor

Megan Barry
Democratic

The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6, 2015, to elect the next mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office. [2] Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held. In the runoff election, Democratic candidate Megan Barry was elected with 54.8% of the vote, defeating Republican Candidate David Fox. [3] [4]

Contents

All Nashville municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but each candidate was affiliated with a political party.

Candidates

Advanced to the runoff

Eliminated in the first round

Potential

Declined

Results

First round

Election Results
August 6, 2015 [23]
CandidateVotes %
Megan Barry 24,55323.53%
David A. Fox23,75422.77%
Bill Freeman22,30821.38%
Howard Gentry Jr.12,11011.61%
Charles Robert Bone10,96210.51%
Linda Eskind Rebrovick5,8275.59%
Jeremy Kane4,7674.57%
Write-in620.06%
Total votes104,343 100.00%

Runoff

No candidates received the required majority for the election. Therefore, a runoff election took place on September 10, 2015, between the two candidates receiving the most votes, Megan Barry and David Fox.

Democrat Megan Barry defeated Republican David Fox by a 9.8% margin.

2015 Nashville mayoral election results (runoff) [24]
CandidateVotes %
Megan Barry 60,51954.79
David A. Fox49,69444.99
Write-in 2410.22
Total votes110,454 100.00

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  9. ↑ Bobby Bones campaign image
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