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The 2024 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 5, 2024. It elected the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Incumbent Democratic mayor Miro Weinberger declined to seek re-election.
City councilor Joan Shannon defeated CD Mattison and Karen Paul for the Democratic nomination. The Vermont Progressive Party nominated state representative Emma Mulvaney-Stanak.
In the general election, Mulvaney-Stanak prevailed, defeating Shannon and two independent candidates. Mulvaney-Stanak will be Burlington's first female and first openly LGBT mayor, as well as being the first Progressive to serve as mayor of Burlington since Bob Kiss left office in 2012. [1]
Miro Weinberger's victory in the 2012 mayoral election made him the first Democrat to serve as Burlington's mayor since Gordon Paquette lost re-election to Bernie Sanders in the 1981 election. [2] Weinberger was re-elected in 2015, 2018, and 2021. Weinberger is the longest serving consecutive mayor in Burlington history and second-longest serving overall after Peter Clavelle. [3]
The Democrats won a majority on the city council in the 2023 elections; previously, the Progressive Party held a plurality of seats on the council. [4]
This will be the first Burlington mayoral election to use ranked-choice voting since the 2009 mayoral election. Voters approved a referendum to re-adopt the system for mayoral races in the 2023 election, despite opposition from Weinberger. [5] Kurt Wright, the last Republican to serve on the Burlington city council and a former mayoral candidate, argued that the use of ranked-choice voting would help Republicans, as it meant a Republican could run for mayor and not "drain votes away from another candidate." [6]
On September 28, 2023, Weinberger announced that he would not seek reelection. [3] The Democratic caucus was held on December 10. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Joan Shannon | 1,689 | 50.68 | |
Democratic | Karen Paul | 1,173 | 35.19 | |
Democratic | CD Mattison | 471 | 14.13 | |
Total votes | 3,333 | 100.00 |
The Progressive caucus was held on December 7, 2023. [7]
The Republican caucus was held on December 19, 2023. [15] No candidate was nominated for the mayoral race.
Endorsements in bold were made after the caucuses.
Shannon raised $132,124 from 651 donors, spending around $60,000. Donors to her campaign include former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and former state Attorney General T.J. Donovan. Mulvaney-Stanak raised $67,052 from 514 donors, spending roughly $35,000. Donors included state Attorney General Charity Clark, city councilor Zoraya Hightower, and former city councilors Vince Brennan and Max Tracy. [23]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Progressive | Emma Mulvaney-Stanak | 7,612 | 51.4% | ||
Democratic | Joan Shannon | 6,696 | 45.2% | ||
Independent | Will Emmons | 273 | 1.8% | ||
Independent | Chris Haessly | 205 | 1.4% | ||
Total votes | 14,786 | 100.00% | |||
Progressive gain from Democratic |
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