2021 Durham mayoral election

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Durham mayoral election, 2021
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  2019 November 2, 2021 2023  
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Candidate Elaine O'Neal Javiera Caballero
Popular vote25,9364,463
Percentage84.6%14.6%

Mayor before election

Steve Schewel

Elected mayor

Elaine O'Neal

The 2021 Durham, North Carolina mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next mayor of Durham, North Carolina.

Contents

Mayor Steve Schewel was elected with 59.5% of the vote in 2017, [1] and was reelected with 83.4% in 2019. [2] On May 27, 2021, he announced that he would not seek a third term. [3] Seven candidates filed to run in this election to succeed Schewel as mayor. [4]

Schewel endorsed city council member Javiera Caballero to be his successor. Durham's longest-serving mayor, Bill Bell, endorsed former superior court judge Elaine O'Neal. Caballero and O'Neal were considered the two frontrunners in the election. [5]

A nonpartisan blanket primary was held on October 5, 2021. The top two candidates from the primary, Elaine O'Neal and Javiera Caballero, advanced to the general election ballot. [6] O'Neal garnered 84.6% of the vote in the general election, thus becoming mayor.

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

Declined

Endorsements

Javiera Caballero

Local officials

  • Jillian Johnson, mayor pro tempore of Durham (2017-2021) [7]
  • Steve Schewel, mayor of Durham (2017-2021) [12]
Elaine O'Neal

Local officials

Newspapers

Results

2021 Durham mayoral election results [15] [16]
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Nonpartisan Elaine O'Neal 13,78167.8
Nonpartisan Javiera Caballero 5,02324.7
Nonpartisan Jahnmaud Lane5982.9
Nonpartisan Rebecca Barnes3521.7
Nonpartisan Bree Davis2311.1
Nonpartisan Daryl Quick2161.1
Nonpartisan Charlitta Burruss (withdrawn)1130.6
Total votes20,314 100% [a]
General election
Nonpartisan Elaine O'Neal 25,936 84.6
Nonpartisan Javiera Caballero 4,46314.6
Nonpartisan Steve Schewel (write-in)80.0
Write-in 235 [b] 0.8
Total votes30,642 100%

Notes

  1. The percentage of votes above don't add up to 100% due to rounding.
  2. Excluding Steve Schewel.

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