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City elections in Charlotte, North Carolina (2022)

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2022 Charlotte elections
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Election dates
Filing deadline: March 4, 2022
Primary election: May 17, 2022
General election: July 26, 2022
Election stats
Offices up: Mayor and city council
Total seats up: 12 (click here for mayoral elections)
Election type: Partisan
Other municipal elections
U.S. municipal elections, 2022

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, held general elections for mayor and city council on July 26, 2022. A primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 4, 2022.

The offices were originally scheduled to be on the ballot in 2021. They were moved to 2022 due to redistricting delays.[1][2]

On Dec. 8, 2021, the Supreme Court of North Carolina ordered that the state's 2022 primary election be postponed from March 8 to May 17. The postponement applied to all primaries originally scheduled for March 8, 2022. The court suspended candidate filing, which had been scheduled to close on Dec. 17. The court issued the order in response to two separate lawsuits challenging North Carolina's newly enacted congressional and state legislative district plans. The court cited "great public interest in the subject matter of these cases, the importance of the issues to the constitutional jurisprudence of this State, and the need for urgency in reaching a final resolution on the merits" as its rationale for ordering the postponement.[3]

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Elections

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Candidates and results

City Council

General election

Charlotte City Council general election, 2022

  • Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name.
  • Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
Office Democratic Party Democratic Republican Party Republican Other
at-large  (4 seats)

Green check mark transparent.pngDimple Ajmera (i)
Green check mark transparent.pngBraxton Winston II (i)
Green check mark transparent.pngJames Mitchell
Green check mark transparent.pngLaWana Slack-Mayfield

Kyle Luebke  Candidate Connection
David Merrill  Candidate Connection
Charlie Mulligan  Candidate Connection
Carrie Olinski  Candidate Connection

District 1

Green check mark transparent.pngDante Anderson

District 2

Green check mark transparent.pngMalcolm Graham (i)

Mary Lineberger Barnett  Candidate Connection

District 3

Green check mark transparent.pngVictoria Watlington (i)

James H. Bowers  Candidate Connection

District 4

Green check mark transparent.pngRenee Perkins Johnson (i)

District 5

Green check mark transparent.pngMarjorie Molina

District 6

Stephanie Hand

Green check mark transparent.pngTariq Bokhari (i)

District 7

Green check mark transparent.pngEdmund H. Driggs (i)

Primary

Charlotte City Council primary, 2022

  • Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name.
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  • * = The primary was canceled and the candidate advanced.
Office Democratic Party Democratic Republican Party Republican Other
at-large  (4 seats)

Green check mark transparent.pngDimple Ajmera (i)
Larken Egleston (i)
Green check mark transparent.pngBraxton Winston II (i)
Patrick Cannon
Green check mark transparent.pngJames Mitchell
Green check mark transparent.pngLaWana Slack-Mayfield

Green check mark transparent.pngKyle Luebke  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngDavid Merrill  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngCharlie Mulligan  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngCarrie Olinski  Candidate Connection
David Michael Rice

District 1

Green check mark transparent.pngDante Anderson
Charlene Henderson El
Billy D. Maddalon

The Republican primary was canceled.


District 2

Green check mark transparent.pngMalcolm Graham (i)
Kendrick Cunningham  Candidate Connection
Amar Johnson

Did not make the ballot:
Kerry Shipman  Candidate Connection

Green check mark transparent.pngMary Lineberger Barnett*  Candidate Connection

District 3

Green check mark transparent.pngVictoria Watlington (i)
Tiawana Deling Brown

Green check mark transparent.pngJames H. Bowers*  Candidate Connection

District 4

Green check mark transparent.pngRenee Perkins Johnson (i)
Cedric Dean  Candidate Connection
Darlene Heater

The Republican primary was canceled.


District 5

Curtis Marvin Hayes Jr.
Liz Millsaps Haigler
Green check mark transparent.pngMarjorie Molina
Vinroy Reid
Mark Vincent

The Republican primary was canceled.


District 6

Green check mark transparent.pngStephanie Hand
Rob Hillman
Nancy Wiggins

Green check mark transparent.pngTariq Bokhari* (i)

District 7

The Democratic primary was canceled.


Green check mark transparent.pngEdmund H. Driggs* (i)

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About the city

See also: Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is a city located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. As of 2020, its population was 874,579.

City government

See also: Council-manager government

Since 1929, the city of Charlotte has utilized a council-manager system. In this form of municipal government, an elected city council—which includes the mayor and serves as the city's primary legislative body—appoints a chief executive called a city manager to oversee day-to-day municipal operations and implement the council's policy and legislative initiatives.[4]

Demographics

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

Demographic Data for Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte North Carolina
Population 874,579 10,439,388
Land area (sq mi) 309 48,623
Race and ethnicity**
White 46.7% 67.6%
Black/African American 35.5% 21.4%
Asian 6.6% 3%
Native American 0.4% 1.2%
Pacific Islander 0% 0.1%
Other (single race) N/A 3.2%
Multiple 4.1% 3.6%
Hispanic/Latino 14.6% 9.5%
Education
High school graduation rate 89.4% 88.5%
College graduation rate 44.8% 32%
Income
Median household income $65,359 $56,642
Persons below poverty level 11.9% 14%
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

Charlotte, North Carolina North Carolina Municipal government Other local coverage
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