Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser faces off against Republican Stacia Hall in Washington, DC’s mayoral election

Democratic incumbent Mayor Muriel Bowser is operating in opposition to Republican Stacia Corridor in Washington, DC’s mayoral race.

Bowser, first elected in 2014, is vying for her third consecutive time period as mayor. Presently, the mayor of Washington, DC, is popularly elected to a four-year time period with no time period limits. 

The native Washingtonian beforehand represented Ward 4 for 2 phrases as a member of the DC Council. She is the second feminine mayor of Washington, DC, after Sharon Pratt, and the primary lady to be reelected to that place. 

In 2018, she grew to become the primary mayor to earn a second time period in 16 years when she received with 76% of the vote. 

With town experiencing will increase in violent crime, crime and public security have emerged as main points on voters’ minds. Bowser, who in 2020 had a piece of sixteenth Avenue NW close to the White Home painted with the phrases “Black Lives Matter” and renamed a piece of the road Black Lives Matter Plaza, pushed to extend the variety of cops, some extent she touted throughout a tv debate earlier in June.

“I will make the powerful calls with regards to violent crime, together with ensuring we have now the police that we’d like,” she stated. 

Corridor, Bowser’s challenger, is a senior rental advisor and small enterprise proprietor from Ward 3. In accordance with her marketing campaign web site, Corridor is a single mom who has skilled homelessness. The first focus of her marketing campaign is public security: She would put extra cops in colleges and develop incentives to have officers stay within the neighborhoods they police. 

Presently, no Republicans sit on the DC Council, and fewer than 10% of eligible voters are registered Republicans. Corridor, the primary Republican candidate to run in almost 20 years, faces an uphill battle. The town’s final Republican mayoral candidate was David Kranich, who ran and misplaced to Democrat Adrian Fenty, 6% to almost 90%. 

Unbiased Rodney Grant and Libertarian Dennis Sobin are additionally on the poll this yr.