Elections for mayor of Albany, New York
Elections are held every four years in the
off-year immediately after
United States presidential election years in
Albany, New York , to elect
the city's mayor .
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(July 2021 )
2005
2005 Albany mayoral election
The 2005
Albany mayoral election occurred on November 8, 2005.
Incumbent
Democrat
Gerald Jennings was reelected to a fourth consecutive term.
Primaries
Primary elections were held on September 13, 2005.
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Candidates
Conservative
General election
In the general election, Jennings defeated
Green Party candidate
Alice Green , and
Republican Party candidate Joseph Sullivan, a perennial candidate and local activist.
[3] This was a great result for Green who, 7 years earlier as the running mate of
Al Lewis , helped the nascent
Green Party of New York to achieve
automatic ballot access by winning over 50,000 votes in the
1998 New York gubernatorial election .
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2009
2009 Albany mayoral election
The
Albany, New York , mayoral election of 2009 occurred on November 3, 2009. It saw the reelection of
Democrat
Gerald Jennings to a fifth consecutive term.
Democratic primary
The
Democratic Party primary was held on September 15, 2009. Incumbent Mayor
Gerald Jennings defeated Corey Ellis, a city council member, by a vote of 8,130 to 6,301.
[6]
[7]
General election
In the general election, Jennings (running on both the Democratic and
Conservative Party lines) defeated Ellis (running as the
Working Families Party candidate), and
Republican Party candidate
Nathan Lebron . Jennings got 10,466
votes in total , Ellis came in second with 4,801 votes, and LeBron got 1,178 votes; there were also a few dozen write-in votes.
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2013
2013 Albany mayoral election
The
Albany, New York mayoral election of 2013 took place on November 5, 2013. The general election was preceded by the primaries on September 10, 2013. The winner of the election was
Democratic nominee
Kathy Sheehan .
Incumbent Democratic mayor
Gerald Jennings did not seek reelection.
Background
The 2013 mayoral election was the City of Albany's first open-seat mayoral election since 1993.
Incumbent mayor
Gerald Jennings announced on May 14, 2013, that he would not run for a sixth term.
[9] Jennings is the second-longest-serving mayor in the history of Albany (
Erastus Corning 2nd was the city's longest-tenured mayor).
[10]
Democratic primary
On November 17, 2012, Sheehan announced herself as a candidate for mayor.
[11] On September 10, 2013, Sheehan defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary.
[12] According to official returns released on October 9, Sheehan won the Democratic nomination with 7,468 votes (65.72%) to Ellis's 3,294 votes (28.99%), with 601 write in votes (5.29%) and a few void and blank ballots.
[13]
General election
In addition to Sheehan, who ran on the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence Party lines, Jesse D. Calhoun was the candidate of the Republican Party, Joseph P. Sullivan ran on the Conservative Party line, and Theresa M. Portelli (a former Albany City school board member) ran on the Green Party line.
[14]
On November 5, Sheehan won the general election in a landslide, receiving over 83% of the total vote.
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2017
2017 Albany mayoral election
The 2017 mayoral election in
Albany, New York , was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in the incumbent
Kathy Sheehan , a member of the
Democratic Party , being re-elected to a second term over
Conservative Party candidate Joseph Sullivan,
Green Party candidate Bryan Jimenez, and
Independence Party candidate Frank Commisso Jr.
[16]
[17]
Democratic primary
Sheehan won the Democratic
primary election with less than 50 percent of the vote. Frank Commisso Jr., a member of the
Albany Common Council ; and Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Common Council, also ran.
[17]
General election
Commisso ran again in the general election as the candidate of the
Independence Party . He criticized Sheehan over her handling of the city's finances and on the issue of
tax breaks . Sheehan responded to Commisso's criticism through television advertisements, which were funded by a $387,000 loan from Sheehan to her campaign.
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2021
2021 Albany mayoral election Turnout 14,015
The 2021 mayoral election in
Albany, New York , was held on November 2, 2021.
Incumbent
Democratic mayor
Kathy Sheehan won re-election to a third term in office.
[20]
[21]
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Candidates
Declared
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Marlon Anderson, advocate
[23] (continued as a write-in candidate)
[24]
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[22]
[25]
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