Bessie Harris
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2025 - Present
2026
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Bessie Harris is an at-large member of the Detroit Public Schools Community District in Michigan. She assumed office on October 14, 2025. Her current term ends on December 31, 2026.
Harris ran for election for an at-large seat of the Detroit Public Schools Community District in Michigan. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Elections
2022
See also: Detroit Public Schools Community District, Michigan, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Detroit Public Schools Community District, At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Detroit Public Schools Community District, At-large on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | LaTrice McClendon (Nonpartisan) | 10.3 | 42,780 | |
| ✔ |  | Iris Taylor (Nonpartisan) | 8.8 | 36,502 |
| ✔ |  | Corletta Vaughn (Nonpartisan) | 8.1 | 33,395 |
| ✔ |  | Angelique Nicole Peterson-Mayberry (Nonpartisan) | 7.4 | 30,475 |
 | LaMar Lemmons (Nonpartisan) | 6.9 | 28,676 | |
 | Deborah Hunter-Harvill (Nonpartisan) | 6.5 | 27,097 | |
 | Monique Bryant (Nonpartisan) | 6.4 | 26,663 | |
| Regina Ann Campbell (Nonpartisan) | 6.2 | 25,782 | ||
| Bessie Harris (Nonpartisan) | 6.0 | 24,815 | ||
| Aliya Moore (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 19,687 | ||
| Jamaal Muhammad (Nonpartisan) | 4.7 | 19,481 | ||
| Georgia Lemmons (Nonpartisan) | 4.7 | 19,261 | ||
| Patrice Douglas (Nonpartisan) | 4.2 | 17,309 | ||
 | Ida Carol Short (Nonpartisan) | 3.6 | 15,007 | |
| John Telford (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 13,537 | ||
| Ridgeley Hudson Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 2.8 | 11,639 | ||
 | Richard Clement (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 10,994 | |
| Reba Neely (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 10,985 | ||
| Total votes: 414,085 | |||
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2020
See also: Detroit Public Schools Community District, Michigan, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Detroit Public Schools Community District, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Detroit Public Schools Community District, At-large on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sonya Mays (Nonpartisan) | 14.7 | 69,144 |
| ✔ |  | Misha Stallworth (Nonpartisan) | 14.0 | 66,132 |
| ✔ |  | Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (Nonpartisan) | 11.3 | 53,344 |
| Iris Taylor (Nonpartisan) | 10.9 | 51,388 | |
| LaMar Lemmons (Nonpartisan) | 8.3 | 39,400 | |
| Bessie Harris (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 37,649 | ||
| Ida Carol Short (Nonpartisan) | 6.6 | 30,982 | |
| Jermain Jones (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 22,669 | ||
 | Elena Herrada (Nonpartisan) | 4.3 | 20,258 | |
| Zsa Zsa Hubbard (Nonpartisan) | 4.1 | 19,493 | ||
| John Telford (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 15,691 | ||
| Richard Clement (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 15,640 | |
| Terrance Lemmons (Nonpartisan) | 3.2 | 15,305 | ||
| Chico Frank Sorrell (Nonpartisan) | 2.4 | 11,292 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 3,471 | ||
| Total votes: 471,858 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Bessie Harris did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Bessie Harris did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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