Milwaukee Performing Mayor Cavalier “Chevy” Johnson cruised to victory in Tuesday’s mayoral major election, and former south facet Ald. Bob Donovan took second place, establishing a face-off between the 2 within the April 5 basic election.
Johnson obtained 42% of the vote to Donovan’s 22%.
The pair current a alternative between a millennial Democrat who has risen shortly via the ranks at Metropolis Corridor since first being elected in 2016 and a conservative who spent 20 years as an alderman, unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2016 and determined to not search one other time period in 2020.
Additionally they can have crushed out 5 different candidates within the race to fill the remaining two years on the time period left open by former Mayor Tom Barrett’s resignation in December to function U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
Coming in third was state Sen. Lena Taylor with 12.8% of the vote, intently adopted by Ald. Marina Dimitrijevic at 12.2%. Milwaukee County Sheriff Earnell Lucas obtained 9.55% whereas businessman Michael Sampson and activist Ieshuh Griffin each got here in with lower than 1%.
Brandon Savage, Lucas’ marketing campaign supervisor, confirmed that Lucas is not going to run for re-election as sheriff this fall. Six candidates have already filed to run in that race.
Cheers erupted as Johnson took to the stage at his election-night get together at Potawatomi Lodge & On line casino and greater than 4 dozen supporters crowded towards the stage with indicators in assist of Johnson’s marketing campaign.
“Nicely, of us, we did it,” Johnson mentioned. “Tonight we received a historic victory. Our marketing campaign over the following 49 days is to take town in a brand new path — to have the form of change we so desperately want.”