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The 2025 Toledo mayoral election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, with a primary election held on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. [1] Incumbent mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz is running for a third term. Toledo holds non-partisan elections for mayor.
Toledo (/ t ə ˈ l iː d oʊ / tə-LEE-doh) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. [6] At the 2020 census, it had a population of 270,871, making Toledo the fourth-most populous city in Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Toledo is the 85th-most populous city in the United States. [7]
He founded the Lucas County Land Bank and was its chairman from 2010 to 2019. He spent one term on the Lucas County Board of Education and was later a Toledo city councilman for nearly seven years. He was first elected to City Council in 1999 and then re-elected in 2001 and 2003. Aged 26, he was the youngest member of the legislative body in 25 ...
The Anthony Wayne Bridge construction cost the city of Toledo three-million dollars and passed city council 15-2 before being a city wide ballot in November 1928. [6] In October 1929, Mayor W. T. Jackson broke ground on the project once on both sides of the Maumee River to a crowd of over 500 people.
As of 2020, the total population was 50,679, [4] making it the second most populous municipality of Lucas County, Northwest Ohio, and the 419 / 567 area codes (behind only Toledo). The township entirely encompasses the city of Sylvania. Excluding the city of Sylvania, the remainder of the township had a population of 31,668 in 2020.
In 2009, Take Back Toledo (a group of Toledo area businessmen whose goal is to foster a pro-business, pro-jobs and pro-economic development climate in Northwestern Ohio) led a campaign to recall Finkbeiner from office. On April 15, the Lucas County Board of Elections validated 20,400 signature, enough to recall Finkbeiner.
He was the second African-American mayor in the city's history. In 2013, Bell again ran for mayor, however, his opponent, Councilman D. Michael Collins, won the mayor's race by a margin of 56.5% to 43.5%. The unofficial vote was 28,002 for Mr. Collins and 21,535 for Mr. Bell. Turnout was 25.4 percent of registered voters in the city. [4]
The ODOT and the city of Toledo began planning the bridge in April 1999. The project consisted of building an 8,800 feet (2,700 m) span across the Maumee River and low-lying land on its banks. The community selected a "glass" theme for the bridge design, choosing to honor the region's heritage in the glass manufacturing industry.