Mayoral election in Atlanta, Georgia (2025)
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| Election dates |
| Filing deadline: August 21, 2025 |
| General election: November 4, 2025 Runoff election: December 2, 2025 |
| Election stats |
| Offices up: Mayor |
| Total seats up: 1 (click here for other city elections) |
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The city of Atlanta, Georgia, held a general election for mayor on November 4, 2025. A runoff election was scheduled for December 2, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was August 21, 2025.
As of 2025, Atlanta had term limits for the position of mayor. Mayors could serve two consecutive four-year terms and could run again after a four year break.
Elections
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Candidates and results
General election
General election for Mayor of Atlanta
Incumbent Andre Dickens defeated Eddie Andrew Meredith, Kalema Jackson, and Helmut Domagalski in the general election for Mayor of Atlanta on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andre Dickens (Nonpartisan) | 86.1 | 33,961 |
| Eddie Andrew Meredith (Nonpartisan) | 5.8 | 2,283 | ||
| Kalema Jackson (Nonpartisan) | 4.6 | 1,824 | ||
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)  | 3.5 | 1,370 | ||
| Total votes: 39,438 | |||
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- See also: Georgia elections, 2025
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- City elections in Atlanta, Georgia (2025)
- Atlanta Public Schools, Georgia, elections (2025)
- Atlanta, Georgia, Act 58, SB 330, Assessed Value Tax Exemption for Elderly Residents Measure (November 2025)
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Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Part of that strategy is a unique marketing position and mission for the city: One Love on One Earth for One Humanity.
We will generate economic growth thru collaboration in a One Love consortium focused on citizens as a sales front-door to collaborate with small businesses, large corporations and the entertainment industry.
With a focus on faith, finance, green tech and humanitarian issues, we will host One Love, One Earth and One Humanity conferences to elevate our thought leadership and research/grant investment.
To shift our city futher, I have an AI and tech in every part of city and social services. To facillitate this, I have named a One Humanity Executive, Dr Stacee Lang, who will help consolidate and focus our non-profit efforts across the city.
With joint-ventures in each area, I intend to drive out-come focused non-profit efforts that can be developed here and sold to other cities.
This strategy is grounded in a committment to developing a Responsible Capitalism. When we apply the efficiencies of business to social services, we can know that our systems help people learn, recover, and grow so that they can become stronger contributors to the economy.
This straegy will attract investmetn and ultiamtely ongoign revevnues for our city.
Finally, we are in a time that requires restoration. I have developed a One Love Reconciliation plan to bring about healing of our division.
It is time for Atlanta to acknowledge our past and apologize for it and then set new goals ahead for our mission in One Love on One Earth for One Humanity.
Besides a proclomation and monument, I will pull a comission together to make suggestions in areas from incarceration, education, media and business practices, but most importantly we will invest in a $10M pilot for a private/public wealth-sharing program built on the republican valor of merit to grow entreprenuers and skilled laborers of those that have been economically left behind by all the wrongs we have committed to oneanother.
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
To do this, we must first come to love and lead outselves by dismantling lies about ourselves that we learned from our parents, from the village and ourselves the sparate us from believing and pursing our heighest self. This pursuit is the pursuit of God, the One Love that is the common rainbow chord of every faith and even science.
I want to inspire people to believe in One Love that is stronger than our division and to know that building a Responsibly Capitalism is not just a possiblity, but our destiny to push our society into the next millineum.
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
Helmut Domagalski (Nonpartisan)
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Submitted Biography: "Hello, my name is Dr. Helmut Lucero Love. I come from a bit of a mixed up family. My father is a 1st generation German immigrant whose parents were Nazi resistance. My mother is Latin Native-American whose grandparents were rebels who stole from the rich to give to the poor in Northern Mexico before they became Christian missionaries. And I was born in El Paso, Texas and lived the American Dream. I worked hard, got a biomedial engineering degree at Texas A&M and a Kellog Northwestern MBA, and worked at giants like General Electric, McKesson and IBM Watson where I lead hundred million dolloar portfolios in healthcare tech and AI. I became an expert in leading large teams, growth and turn-arounds. I am running for Mayor of Atlanta because I don't see the kind of hope I want to see in the eyes of my three daughters, their peers and other parents my age. With Federal Dollars being cut and AI job loss on the horizon it is imperative that we start to do things differents. We must remove the long-standing corruption in our city leadership so that we can protect our citizens and then attract the kind of wealth that will make Atlanta the Number 1 city in the United States. This is especially true for Atlanta, which has the largest welath-gap of any large city in the country. Its time to do things differently because Atlanta deserves more. Vote for Love, because anything is possible with Love."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for Mayor of Atlanta in 2025.
Mayoral partisanship
Atlanta has a Democratic mayor. As of January 2026, 67 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 22 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, three are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
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About the city
- See also: Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is a city in Fulton County, Georgia. As of 2020, its population was 498,715.
City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Atlanta uses 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.[1]
Demographics
The following table displays demographic data provided by the United States Census Bureau.
| Demographic Data for Atlanta, Georgia | ||
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| Atlanta | Georgia | |
| Population | 498,715 | 10,711,908 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 135 | 57,716 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 40.4% | 57.2% |
| Black/African American | 49.8% | 31.6% |
| Asian | 4.8% | 4.1% |
| Native American | 0.4% | 0.3% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% | 0.1% |
| Other (single race) | N/A | 2.9% |
| Multiple | 3.2% | 3.7% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 4.9% | 9.6% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 91.7% | 87.9% |
| College graduation rate | 53.4% | 32.2% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $64,179 | $61,224 |
| Persons below poverty level | 19.2% | 14.3% |
| 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. | ||
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