Mayoral election in Salt Lake City, Utah (2023)

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2023 Salt Lake City elections
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Election dates
Filing deadline: August 15, 2023
General election: November 21, 2023
Election stats
Offices up: Mayor
Total seats up: 1 (click here for other city elections)
Election type: Nonpartisan
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The city of Salt Lake City, Utah, held a general election for mayor on November 21, 2023. The regular filing deadline for this election was August 15, 2023, and the write-in candidate filing deadline was September 18, 2023.

On March 7, 2023, the Salt Lake City Council voted to use ranked-choice voting in the 2023 municipal election.[1]

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Candidates and results

General election

General election for Mayor of Salt Lake City

The ranked-choice voting election was won by Erin Mendenhall in round 1 .

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 44,423
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September 5, 2023
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Ross Anderson

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Submitted Biography:  "My approach to my law practice, decades of non-profit work (Planned Parenthood of Utah, Utah ACLU, Guadalupe School, Utah Common Cause, Citizens for Penal Reform, SLAM, and Haitian Orchestra Institute), teaching at the U. of U., and elective office (SLC Mayor from 2000-08) has been centered on advancing economic, social, and environmental justice and making life better for everyone. That's why I'm running to serve as Mayor once again. With a return to my leadership, we can achieve a clean, safe, affordable, environmentally sustainable, highly livable city once again, with a government that is responsive, accessible, and transparent. I will make certain, as I did when I was Mayor before, that no one is left out in freezing or searing weather without adequate available shelter (with several people dying each winter during the current mayor's tenure, and several others losing fingers, toes, and legs to frostbite) and that businesses and residents are no longer left with a sense of lawlessness and powerlessness because of a mayor who has told police officers to just tell those who have violated to law to "move along." I will once again create a comprehensive restorative justice program, diverting people from jail while focusing on solving problems to benefit everyone--residents, members of the homeless community, and businesses alike. We can remove SLC from the list of the Most Dangerous Cities and include it once again on lists of the top livable cities. "

Key Messages

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I'll make SLC safe, clean, and highly livable again. Our current mayor spends more time dodging responsibility for our homelessness crisis and is still without a plan. I will embrace the responsibility and, working with others, (1) create a sanctioned camp with decent bathrooms, showers, laundry, lockers, meals, access to treatment, and case managers to help each person transition to a better life; (2) ramp up creation of supportive permanent housing, as we were all doing when I was mayor before, making us a national model; (3) all of it leading to an elimination of all encampments in parks, neighborhoods, etc. My approach will be to the benefit of residents, homeless people, and businesses alike. I'll re-institute restorative justice.

The current mayor has subsidized private developers with many millions of dollars to build mostly architecturally awful unaffordable housing. I will invest in world-class mixed-income non-market housing (eliminating the profit margin) that will offer affordable housing at all income levels, while providing spectacular housing structures that we'll all be proud of (just as we're proud of the design of our Main Library). The city will then own the buildings and be able to provide secure, affordable housing for thousands of people in perpetuity. The neo-liberal reliance on old market models by the city needs to be replaced by what works elsewhere. https://prospect.org/infrastructure/america-needs-social-housing/

One's past is the best predictor of what is to come. I have a solid record of extraordinary accomplishment and personal passion relating to the greatest problems facing our community, reflected in my receipt of the World Leadership Award (London) and the EPA's Climate Protection Award for our environmental programs when I was Mayor; the Profiles in Courage Award by the nation's largest Latino organization (LULAC); the national Distinguished Service Award from the Sierra Club; the American Assn. of Justice "In Defense of Civil Liberties Award," and recognition by the nation's largest LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, as one of the top ten straight allies in the nation for LGBTQ+ equality.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for Mayor of Salt Lake City in 2023.

Mayoral partisanship

See also: Partisanship in United States municipal elections (2023)

Eighteen state capitals held mayoral elections in 2023, including 11 capitals that fell outside of the top 100 cities.

One state capital saw a change in mayoral partisan affiliation in 2023:

After mayors elected in 2023 assumed office, there were 37 Democratic state capital mayors, six Republican mayors, one independent mayor, two nonpartisan mayors, and four mayors with unknown partisan affiliation.

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About the city

See also: Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah. As of 2020, its population was 199,723.

City government

See also: Mayor-council government

Salt Lake City utilizes a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive officer.[2][3][4]

Demographics

The following table displays demographic data provided by the United States Census Bureau.

Demographic Data for Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City Utah
Population 199,723 3,271,616
Land area (sq mi) 110 82,376
Race and ethnicity**
White 73.3% 85.1%
Black/African American 2.6% 1.2%
Asian 5.3% 2.3%
Native American 1.3% 1.1%
Pacific Islander 1.8% 0.9%
Two or more 4.6% 4.2%
Hispanic/Latino 21.2% 14.2%
Education
High school graduation rate 90% 93%
College graduation rate 48.7% 34.7%
Income
Median household income $63,156 $74,197
Persons below poverty level 15.2% 9.1%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.


See also

Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Municipal government Other local coverage
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Salt Lake City Attorney's Office, "2023 Municipal Elections," accessed August 15, 2023
  2. ↑ American Legal Publishing, "CHAPTER 2.02 GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION," accessed October 12, 2021
  3. ↑ American Legal Publishing, "Salt Lake City Municipal Code: CHAPTER 2.04 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR," accessed August 28, 2023
  4. ↑ American Legal Publishing, "Salt Lake City Municipal Code: CHAPTER 2.06 CITY COUNCIL," accessed August 28, 2023
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