Mayoral election in Greensboro, North Carolina (2025)
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| Election dates |
| Filing deadline: July 18, 2025 |
| Primary election: October 7, 2025 General election: November 4, 2025 |
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| Offices up: Mayor |
| Total seats up: 1 (click here for other city elections) |
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The city of Greensboro, North Carolina, held a general election for mayor on November 4, 2025. A primary was scheduled for October 7, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was July 18, 2025.
As of 2025, Greensboro did not have term limits for the position of mayor. Mayors served a four-year term.
Elections
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Candidates and results
General election
General election for Mayor of Greensboro
Marikay Abuzuaiter defeated Robbie Perkins in the general election for Mayor of Greensboro on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marikay Abuzuaiter (Nonpartisan)  | 60.7 | 27,359 |
| Robbie Perkins (Nonpartisan) | 38.8 | 17,470 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 249 | ||
| Total votes: 45,078 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Greensboro
Marikay Abuzuaiter and Robbie Perkins defeated Mark Cummings and Akir Khan in the primary for Mayor of Greensboro on October 7, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marikay Abuzuaiter (Nonpartisan) | 39.9 | 8,575 |
| ✔ | Robbie Perkins (Nonpartisan) | 32.5 | 6,984 | |
 | Mark Cummings (Nonpartisan) | 17.9 | 3,838 | |
 | Akir Khan (Nonpartisan) | 9.8 | 2,100 | |
| Total votes: 21,497 | |||
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: North Carolina elections, 2025
October 7, 2025
November 4, 2025
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Marikay Abuzuaiter (Nonpartisan)
Infrastructure is a key component of economic development. They actually go hand-in-hand. Without proper infrastructure - water, sewer, roads, sidewalks and many other necessities, it is doubtful that any company would look at our city as a place to move or begin a business. Not many people realize how important logistics are to a company with my work as chair of the MPO/transportation, our group was able to approve the grants and state and city monies that were used to finish our urban loop. The urban loop has opened up amazing pockets of future development and has shown companies how Greensboro is the right place for them to come logistically to move their product from one place to another with safety and efficiency.
Housing. With all of the companies coming, we are certainly in need of housing. We are not only in need of attainable and affordable housing, we are also in need of all levels of income housing. I know that we need infill development, but we also need single-family home housing along with multifamily. Greensboro has made great strides trying to make the process for developers and builders much easier. While there are many rules and regulations, we cannot change because they are state mandated, we have been trying to make our permit process much more efficient, so developers and builders can move quickly to build the housing that is needed.
Marikay Abuzuaiter (Nonpartisan)
Ordinances and policies that ensure our citizens are safe as always been my number one priority.
Greensboro has also always been well ahead of other municipalities and making sure that we are environmentally respectful, and that we make policies that ensure our sustainability.
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City council had talked about it for over a year. The day that our police chief came and spoke before Council saying that our city was in crisis because we had lost so many officers to other cities, I became angry. We had talked the subject to death and I was tired of hearing that we were over 130 officers short.
I made the motion that evening to raise our officers to a comparable level like our peer cities. My motion passed on a 7-2 vote.
I am most proud of this as we now have a full police officer department. I made the motion on April 4, 2023.
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Incumbent: No
Submitted Biography: "I am Marikay Abuzuaiter, Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Greensboro, NC. I was elected in 2011 to an at large position. Having served on the Greensboro city Council for 14 years, I have the knowledge, experience and commitment to keeping Greensboro on the trajectory of success that we are experiencing with the major economic development announcements that have been coming for the last couple of years. Our city needs someone who has been involved in the meetings, discussions, and regional initiatives that have helped lift up our community. I am that person! Having served on and been elected chair of many regional initiatives, I am confident that I can continue to collaborate with our local and regional partners. I am chair of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, Chair of the Municipal Planning Organization Transportation and I am Vice Chair of the Piedmont Triad Regional Council. My local and regional elected officials are the ones who keep electing me to chair and vice chair these organizations. I am honored and I want to continue that momentum of economic success."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for Mayor of Greensboro in 2025.
Mayoral partisanship
Twenty-seven of the 100 largest cities held mayoral elections in 2025. Once mayors elected in 2025 assumed office, 67 top-100 mayors were affiliated with the Democratic Party, 22 were Republicans, one was a Libertarian, three were independents, and five were nonpartisan. Two mayors' partisan affiliations were unknown.
The following top 100 cities saw a change in mayoral partisan affiliation in 2025.
- Omaha, Nebraska: Democrat John Ewing Jr. was elected to succeed Republican Jean Stothert on May 13. Ewing Jr. assumed office on June 9.[1]
- Garland, Texas: Nonpartisan Dylan Hedrick was elected to succeed Republican Scott LeMay in the general runoff election on June 7. Hedrick assumed office on June 17.[2]
- Miami, Florida: Democrat Eileen Higgins was elected to suceed Republican Francis Suarez in the general runoff on December 9.[3] Higgins assumed office on December 18, 2025.
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About the city
- See also: Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in Guilford County, North Carolina. As of 2020, its population was 299,035.
City government
- See also: Council-manager government
The city of Greensboro uses 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 Greensboro, North Carolina | ||
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| Greensboro | North Carolina | |
| Population | 299,035 | 10,439,388 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 130 | 48,623 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 45.5% | 67.6% |
| Black/African American | 42.4% | 21.4% |
| Asian | 5.4% | 3% |
| Native American | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Other (single race) | N/A | 3.2% |
| Multiple | 3.4% | 3.6% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8% | 9.5% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 89.9% | 88.5% |
| College graduation rate | 39.4% | 32% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $49,492 | $56,642 |
| Persons below poverty level | 18.4% | 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
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Footnotes
- ↑ KETV, "John Ewing Jr.'s historic inauguration as Omaha's mayor," June 10, 2025
- ↑ Garland, Texas, "Dylan Hedrick Returns to City Hall as Garland's 38th Mayor," June 18, 2025
- ↑ New York Times, "Miami Elects First Democratic Mayor in Nearly 30 Years," December 9, 2025
- ↑ City of Greensboro, "City Manager," accessed October 27, 2014
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