Councilman Freddie O’Connell finished in first place in the Nashville mayoral general election on Thursday, and Republican Alice Rolli finished in second place, qualifying both candidates for the two spots in the September 14 runoff election.
According to the Nashville Davidson County Charter, a runoff election betweeen the top two finishers in a general election for mayor qualify for a runoff election if no candidate exceeds 50 percent in the general electio,
With all early votes counted and 99 percent of precincts reporting as of 9:35 pm, O’ Connell topped the 12 candidate field with 27.1 percent of the vote. The Tennessean called the race for him as one of two runoff qualifiers at 9:00 pm.
Republican Alice Rolli finished in second place with 20.2 percent, locking up the second and final spot in the runoff. The Tennessean called the second place finish for Rolli at 9:30 pm.
Matt Wilshire finished in third place with 16.9 percent
The rest of the field had the following results:
Jeff Yarboro 12.1 percent
Heidi Campbell 8.2 percent
Sharon Hurt 6.0 percent
Vivian Wilhoite 4.7 percent
Jim Gingrich 1.7 percent
Natisha Brooks 1.4 percent
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Michael Patrick Leahy is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Put Alice Rolli in her place! As mayor.
If the state GOP were smart–I know, I know–Campbell is low-hanging fruit to be picked off in 2024 given the results in her state senate district.
Not to worry Heidi…you can run another race next year for four races in four years. Going for five in five years?
A real chance for a Republican mayor. Amazing!
SEIU, TEA and the other communist organizations will rally around Freddie. The cake is baked on that one.
Not a 100% on Alice, the continued subsided, sorry “affordable” housing talking point is really irritating.
Hopefully the Steve Smith ads will have some impact, or Nashville will be SF or Austin by end of Fred’s term.
This is EXACTLY why you never have plurality decide the winner of an election and is EXACTLY why the Tennessee state GOP does just that, giving us RINOs like Alexander and L’il Bobby Corker to misrepresent our state in the Senate. O’Connell is a blithering Marxist idiot who will do nothing but make Nashville worse. We have a chance to start righting the mess that the Marxist Dems have been making of Nashville for decades with Rolli. Let’s make it happen!
it would be great if rolli had a chance. she doesnt.
freddie, the doofus, will win and make the city Portland faster than you can say ‘defund’
We really need to put all of our efforts into Rolli and helping court disenfranchised Wiltshire voters into our side in order to win this election. O Connell while, speaking nice, will run this city into the hill faster than what Barry and Cooper have done. I mean his face says it all. Be careful and let’s get Rolli in that mayoral chair.