2019 Salt Lake City mayoral election

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2019 Salt Lake City mayoral election
 2015
November 5, 2019
2023 
 
Candidate Erin Mendenhall Luz Escamilla
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 25,502 18,342
Percentage 58.17% 41.83%

Mayor before election

Jackie Biskupski
Democratic

Elected mayor

Erin Mendenhall
Democratic

The 2019 Salt Lake City mayoral election took place on November 5, 2019, to elect the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and is officially nonpartisan.

In what was regarded to be a surprise, first-term incumbent mayor Jackie Biskupski announced on March 16, 2019, that she would not be seeking a second term, citing a "serious and complex family situation".[1]

A primary election was held on August 15 to determine the two candidates that moved on to the November general election.[2] Erin Mendenhall defeated Luz Escamilla in the runoff.

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin
of error
Jackie
Biskupskie
Jim
Dabakis
Luz
Escamilla
David
Ibarra
Erin
Mendenhall
Other Undecided
Dan Jones & Associates/Salt
Lake Chamber of Commerce
[3]
Jun 11-Jul 1, 2019 149 (LV) 30% 15% 8% 12% 10%[a] 25%
Lighthouse Research/Jim Dabakis[4][A] Released December 10, 2018 400 (LV) 21% 27% 3% 8%[b] 42%

Results

Salt Lake City mayoral primary election, 2019[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Nonpartisan Erin Mendenhall 9,046 24.27
Nonpartisan Luz Escamilla 8,015 21.51
Nonpartisan Jim Dabakis 7,531 20.21
Nonpartisan David Garbett 6,238 16.74
Nonpartisan David Ibarra 3,046 8.17
Nonpartisan Stan Penfold 2,528 6.78
Nonpartisan Rainer Huck 566 1.52
Nonpartisan Richard N. Goldberger 296 0.79
Turnout 37,266 11.66

General election

Notes

References

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