2015 Nashville mayoral election

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August 6, 2015 (first round)
September 10, 2015 (runoff)
Officially nonpartisan

2018 (special) →

Turnout

28.39%

(first round) 8.68 pp
29.63%

(runoff) 1.24 pp^[1]


Candidate	Megan Barry	David Fox	Bill Freeman
Party	Democratic	Republican	Democratic
First round	24,553 23.53%	23,754 22.77%	22,308 21.38%
Runoff	60,519 54.79%	49,694 44.99%	Eliminated


Candidate	Howard Gentry Jr.	Charles Robert Bone	Linda Eskind Rebrovick
Party	Democratic	Democratic	Republican
First round	12,110 11.61%	10,962 10.51%	5,827 5.59%
Runoff	Eliminated	Eliminated	Eliminated

First-round results by precinct
Barry:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%
Fox:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Freeman:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      30–40%
Gentry:      <10%      10–20%      20–30%      40–50%      70–80%
Bone:      <10%
     No data
Runoff results by precinct
Barry:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Fox:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
     No data

Mayor before election

Karl Dean
Democratic

Elected Mayor

Megan Barry
Democratic

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The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6, 2015, to elect the next mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.^[2] Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held. In the runoff election, Democratic candidate Megan Barry was elected with 54.8% of the vote, defeating Republican Candidate David Fox.^[3]^[4]

All Nashville municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but each candidate was affiliated with a political party.

^ "Election Statistics | Nashville.gov". www.nashville.gov. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
^ "Nashville 2015 mayor's race chatter begins". The Tennessean. December 3, 2012. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
^ Garrison, Joey. "Megan Barry elected Nashville mayor". The Tennessean. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
^ Linebaugh, Mack (September 11, 2015). "Nashville's Mayoral Runoff 2015: Live Updates". WPLN News. Retrieved January 19, 2024.