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The 2023 Lincoln, Nebraska mayoral election was held on May 2, 2023 to determine the mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska. It was preceded by a primary election on April 4 where the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advanced to the general election. Incumbent Democratic mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird ran for reelection to a second term ...
Chris Beutler. Personal details. Political party. Democratic. Education. Yale University (BA) New College, Oxford (MS) Leirion Gaylor Baird is an American politician. Since the 2019 election, she has been the mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, where she previously served as a city councilwoman.
In the summer of 2018, several prominent Republican politicians successfully led a petition drive for an amendment to the city charter that would limit the Lincoln mayor to serving three consecutive terms. The amendment would apply retroactively, thereby prohibiting Beutler from running for a fourth term in the 2019 municipal election.
English: Results of the general election of the 2023 Lincoln, Nebraska mayoral election, coloured by the vote share of the winning candidate in each city council district.
Selected by the Lincoln City Council to finish Mayor Boyles' unexpired term [80] 42 Dean H. Petersen: Rep May 20, 1963: May 15, 1967: Petersen was Lincoln's first "full-time" mayor elected for a term of four years after the Lincoln City Charter was amended in 1962 to extend the mayor's term from two to four years and make the position full time.
Michael Owen Johanns (/ ˈdʒoʊhæns / JOH-hanss; born June 18, 1950) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Nebraska from 2009 to 2015. He served as the 38th governor of Nebraska from 1999 until 2005, and was chair of the Midwestern Governors Association in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed by ...
The Nebraska Democratic Party also does not control the Omaha mayor's office. Republican Jean Stothert defeated former state senator Heath Mello on May 9, 2017, when she was re-elected as Omaha mayor. Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, won the mayoral race in Lincoln on May 7, 2019, to replace term-limited Democrat Chris Beutler. Democrats hold ...
The city covers 100.4 square miles (260.035 km 2) and had a population of 294,757 in 2023. It is the state's second-most populous city and the 71st-largest in the United States. Lincoln is considered the economic and cultural anchor of the substantially larger metropolitan area in southeastern Nebraska, the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln ...