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The 2020 Lubbock mayoral election is an election that will take place on November 3, 2020 to elect the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. The election saw Dan Pope re-elected to serve a third, two year term as mayor. [1]
The election was originally scheduled to take place on May 2, 2020, however was postponed to November 3 after a proclamation from Texas Governor Greg Abbott to allow political subdivisions to delay voting. [2]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Pope (incumbent) | 48,818 | 55.71 | |
| Stephen Sanders | 38,818 | 44.29 | |
| Total votes | 87,636 | ||
Lubbock is the 11th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 258,862 in 2019, the city is also the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which has a projected 2020 population of 327,424.
George Herman Mahon was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms (1935–1979) as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Lubbock-based 19th congressional district.
James Harlan Granberry Sr. is an American politician who served as the mayor of Lubbock, Texas from 1970 to 1972. He guided the city through a series of tornadoes that shattered the region on May 11, 1970. He imposed a curfew to restore order. He had just become mayor when the tornadoes occurred. He served only one two-year term from 1970-1972. He was a member of the Lubbock City Council from 1966–1970. He did not seek a second two-year term in 1972 and was succeeded by city councilman Morris W. Turner. Mayors and council members in Texas are all officially nonpartisan, but Granberry was known to be a Republican.
Delwin L. Jones was an American politician, who, prior to 2011, was the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, having represented what became and what remains District 83 based in the area about Lubbock, Texas. Jones was originally elected as a Democrat in 1964, when that party held 149 of the 150 seats in the Texas House. Jones was defeated for re-nomination in 1972 by cotton farmer Pete Laney of Hale Center, later the House Speaker. After a 12-year absence, Jones returned to the House in 1989 as a Republican.
Thomas Allen Martin was an American politician who served as mayor of Lubbock, Texas from 2008 to 2012. He was a member of the Lubbock City Council from 2002 to 2006. Prior to seeking elected office, he had a career in law enforcement in Lubbock, Grapevine, and San Marcos, Texas. He has served as an instructor of criminal justice and political science at Wayland Baptist University's Lubbock campus. Although Texas elections for mayors are explicitly nonpartisan, Martin is regarded as a Republican.
Jodey Cook Arrington is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 19th congressional district. The district includes a large slice of West Texas, centered around Lubbock and Abilene. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Glen Charles Robertson is an American politician who served two terms as mayor of Lubbock, from May 19, 2012 until May 17, 2016.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, to elect the 36 U.S. Representatives from the state of Texas, one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a gubernatorial election and an election to the U.S. Senate.
Dustin Ray Burrows is an attorney and businessman in his native Lubbock, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 83 in West Texas, and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The district includes a large portion of Lubbock County and all of Gaines, Borden, Scurry, Terry, Lynn and Mitchell Counties. On January 13, 2015, he succeeded Charles Perry, who won a special election in the summer of 2014 to the Texas State Senate. In the recent November, 2020 election, Burrows was re-elected with almost 80% of the vote.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the 36 U.S. Representatives from the state of Texas, one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on March 1.
The 2020 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden defeated incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in the presidential election. Despite losing seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate, marking the first time since the 2008 elections that the party gained unified control of Congress and the presidency.
Daniel Manning Pope is an American businessman and politician. He is the 35th Mayor of Lubbock, Texas, and currently serving his third term.
The 2019 United States elections were held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. This off-year election included gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi; regularly-scheduled state legislative elections in Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and New Jersey; and special elections for seats in various state legislatures. Numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races, and a variety of other local elections also occurred. Three special elections to the United States House of Representatives also took place in 2019 as a result of vacancies.
The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. During this mid-term election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that will follow the 2020 United States census.
The 2018 Lubbock mayoral election was held on May 5, 2018 to elect the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. It saw the re-election of Dan Pope.
The 2016 Lubbock mayoral election was held on May 7, 2016 to elect the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. It saw the election of Dan Pope as Lubbock's 35th Mayor.
The 2012 Lubbock mayoral election was held on May 12, 2012 to elect the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. It saw the election of Glen Robertson, who unseated incumbent mayor Tom Martin.
The 2020 Ukrainian local elections took place on Sunday 25 October 2020. In the election, deputies of district councils and rural townships were elected and elections for city mayors were held. In practice this will mean that most voters had to fill out four ballots. On 15, 22 and 29 November and 6 December 2020 a second round of mayoral elections was held in cities with more than 75,000 voters where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes.
The 2014 Lubbock mayoral election was not put to a public vote as the incumbent mayor, Glen Robertson, ran unopposed. He therefore began his second two-year term as 34th mayor of Lubbock, Texas on May 11, 2014.
The 2008 Lubbock mayoral election was held on May 10, 2008 to elect the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. It saw the election of Tom Martin as the 33rd Mayor of Lubbock defeating the one term incumbent mayor David Miller.
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