The slate of candidates has been finalized for Atlanta’s municipal elections on Nov. 4, after the candidate qualifying period concluded last Friday.
A total of 59 candidates, including 15 incumbents, are on the ballot in 21 races for mayor, city council president, all 15 city council seats, and the four even-numbered Atlanta Board of Education seats, according to the Atlanta Municipal Clerk’s office. Each paid a qualifying fee last week.
Unless a write-in candidate enters a race in the next week, here are the options voters will have to choose from.
Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education
District 2: Incumbent Arretta Baldon announced last week that she is not running for reelection. The three candidates vying for the open seat are: Marlissa Crawford, Tony Mitchell, and Stephen Owens.
District 4: Incumbent Jennifer McDonald will face challenger Sanjay Mendonca.
District 6: The Board of Education appointed incumbent Tolton Pace to the District 6 seat in January to fill the vacancy from his predecessor, Eshé Collins’ election to Atlanta City Council. Pace faces four challengers to fill the remainder of the seat’s four-year term: Michael Hopkins, Patreece Hutcherson, Jonathan Leon, and Tyrese Miller.
Seat 8, At-Large: Cynthia Briscoe Brown is not running for reelection. The three challengers for her seat are: Kaycee Brock, Royce Mann, and Aisha Stith.
Mayor
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has drawn three challengers: Helmut “Love” Domagalski, Kalema Jackson, and Eddie Andrew Meredith.
Atlanta City Council President
City Council President Doug Shipman is not seeking reelection. Current District 11 Councilmember Marci Collier Overstreet is running against Rohit Malhotra, the founder of the Center for Civic Innovation, for the post.
Atlanta City Council
All 15 city council seats are up for election, with seven current council members running unopposed. Open seats for Districts 2, 7 and 11 have drawn a crowded field. The three At-Large seats are elected city-wide.
Post 1 At-Large: Incumbent Michael Julian Bond has drawn two challengers: Juan Mendoza and Matthew Rinker.
Post 2 At-Large: Matt Westmoreland is running unopposed to keep his seat.
Post 3 At-Large: Eshé Collins, who won a special election for the seat last December, is running unopposed.
District 1: Jason Winston is running unopposed.
District 2: This race has drawn a crowded field of candidates since longtime Councilmember Amir Farokhi announced last spring he would resign to become Head of the Galloway School, effective earlier this month. The city council will appoint an interim council member to the seat until the remainder of his term in January.
Out of seven candidates, only one, Ocean Zotique, did not qualify. The six candidates in the running are: Kelsea Bond, Jacob Chambers, Alex Bevel Jones, Rod Mack, Courtney Smith, and James White.
District 3: Incumbent Byron D. Amos will face one challenger, Perrin Bostic.
District 4: Incumbent Jason Dozier is running against “Sister” DeBorah Williams.
District 5: Incumbent Liliana Bakhtiari is running unopposed.
District 6: Incumbent Alex Wan is running unopposed.
District 7: Longtime council member Howard Shook is not seeking reelection. The open seat has attracted five challengers: Jamie Anne Christy, Allen Daly, Thad Flowers, Rebecca King, and Thomas Worthy.
District 8: Incumbent Mary Norwood is running unopposed.
District 9: Incumbent Dustin Hillis is being challenged by Charles Bourgeois.
District 10: Incumbent Andrea Boone is running unopposed.
District 11: Marci Collier Overstreet, who currently holds the seat, is running for city council president. Her open seat has drawn the most crowded field of any local race. Out of 11 candidates who filed declarations of intent, only Charles Hutchins has dropped out.
Here are the 10 candidates who have qualified to run: Toni Belin-Ingram, Andre Burgin, Curt Collier, Steven Dingle, Harold Hardnett, Nate Jester, Keith Lewis, Jr. Wayne Martin, Reginald Rushin, and Sherry B. Williams.
District 12: Incumbent Antonio Lewis is being challenged by Delvin Davis and Stephanie Flowers.
Key election dates
- Aug. 18: First day to apply for an absentee ballot.
- Oct. 6: Voter registration deadline.
- Oct. 14: First day of early voting and first day to mail in absentee ballots.
- Oct. 24: Deadline to submit absentee ballot application. Absentee ballots must arrive by Election Day.
- Oct. 31: Last day of early voting.
- Nov. 4: Election Day.
If no candidate secures more than 50% of the vote on Election Day, a run-off election will be held between the top two vote-getters in a contest on Dec. 2. The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the runoff is Nov. 21. Early voting for the run-off is from Nov. 22-26.
For more information, visit the Atlanta Civic Circle 2025 elections hub.
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