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The 2025 Buffalo mayoral election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent acting mayor Christopher Scanlon is eligible to run for a full term in office. Scanlon succeeded longtime mayor Byron Brown after he became the CEO of Western Regional Off-Track Betting .
[7] [8] Byron Brown, the city's first African American mayor, a Democrat and the longest-serving mayor, has held the office since 2006 and has helped to end the city's long period of declines and hardship, the result showed when Buffalo had its first population gain in 70 years. No Republican has served as mayor since Chester A. Kowal in 1965. [9]
Republican January 1880 – January 2, 1882 1879: 35 Grover Cleveland: Democratic January 2, 1882 – November 20, 1882 1881: Elected 22nd & 24th President of the United States. The only American President to be mayor of a major city. 36 Marcus M. Drake: Republican November 20, 1882 – December 29, 1882 – 37 Harmon S. Cutting: Democratic ...
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Byron Brown, a four-term incumbent, waged a successful write-in campaign against India Walton, a self-described socialist, after losing a June primary.
A look at Buffalo’s acting mayor . Sean Ryan, New York State Senator. ... weather, sports, and streaming video, head to News 4 Buffalo. Show comments. ... Victor Wembanyama scores 42 points in ...
Byron Brown was elected as mayor of Buffalo, New York, in the 2005 mayoral election, becoming the first black mayor of Buffalo. [5] He was reelected in the 2009 election after defeating common councilor Michael P. Kearns in the Democratic primary. [6] [7] He won reelection in the 2013 election. [8]
The 2008 State Senate elections shifted political power in the chamber from the upstate-heavy Republicans to the New York City-centered Democrats. However, as evidence of continued Republican strength in the upstate, the Democrats won all but three seats in New York City but only five seats north of Westchester County.