The Davidson County Election Commission has revealed how many votes were cast during early voting for the 2023 Metro Nashville Runoff Election.
A total of 68,319 individuals cast a vote during the early voting period which ran from Friday, August 25 to Saturday, September 9 across 12 polling locations, which averages to slightly over 5,200 votes per day.
Final Early Voting total: 68,319
— Davidson County Elections (@DavidsonVotes) September 9, 2023
The 2023 Metro Nashville Runoff Election, which includes the Tennessee House District 51 Special General, will take place this Thursday, September 14.
On the ballot in Thursday’s runoff race include the candidates for mayor as well as the candidates running for Council District 4, Council District 11, Council District 29, and four at-large seats on the Metro Nashville Council.
In addition, Republican candidate David Hooven is facing off against Democrat candidate Aftyn Behn and Independent candidate Annabelle Lee on the House District 51 Special General ballot.
The results of Music City’s mayoral race between Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli will be the most anticipated out of every contest on Thursday’s ballot.
Out of 101,245 votes cast in the mayoral election last month, O’Connell (pictured here, right) received 27,470 votes (27.1 percent) while Rolli (pictured, here left) received 20,458 votes (20.2 percent). O’Connell and Rolli were two of twelve candidates vying to be the next mayor of Music City in last month’s election.
O’Connell currently serves as a member of the Metro Nashville Council and has described himself as the “only truly progressive candidate for Mayor.” Rolli, a Republican, was the former assistant commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development in the administration of Governor Bill Haslam.
Both candidates have picked up notable endorsements since last month’s election, including support from former candidates.
O’Connell has received support from former mayoral candidates Jeff Yarbro, Heidi Campbell, Matt Wiltshire, Vivian Wilhoite, and Jim Gingrich. Meanwhile, Rolli has since picked up the endorsement of former mayoral candidate Fran Bush.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
I pray you are right but being a native and living here for over 60 years, I’m not optimistic. As much as I despise Dim’s, hanging your Repub hat on the fact you worked for wishy washy Haslam AIN’T exactly a resume builder.
Nashville had a momentary chance when they had the opportunity to vote for Carol Swain over that imbecilic, political nepo baby David Briley, They chose poorly. I suspect they’ll do it again. After all, why would they now break their half century + habit of stoopid voting decisions?
Dimocrap machine politics BUILT metro. It’s baked into their DNA.
Rolli needs to maximize the outskirts turnout and she has it.