2021 Durham mayoral election

The 2021 Durham, North Carolina mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next mayor of Durham, North Carolina.

Mayor Steve Schewel was elected with 59.5% of the vote in 2017,^[1] and was reelected with 83.4% in 2019.^[2] On May 27, 2021, he announced that he would not seek a third term.^[3] Seven candidates filed to run in this election to succeed Schewel as mayor.^[4]

Schewel endorsed city council member Javiera Caballero to be his successor. Durham's longest-serving mayor, Bill Bell, endorsed former superior court judge Elaine O'Neal. Caballero and O'Neal were considered the two frontrunners in the election.^[5]

A nonpartisan blanket primary was held on October 5, 2021. The top two candidates from the primary, Elaine O'Neal and Javiera Caballero, advanced to the general election ballot.^[6] O'Neal garnered 84.6% of the vote in the general election, thus becoming mayor.

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Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Elaine O'Neal	13,781	67.8
	Nonpartisan	Javiera Caballero	5,023	24.7
	Nonpartisan	Jahnmaud Lane	598	2.9
	Nonpartisan	Rebecca Barnes	352	1.7
	Nonpartisan	Bree Davis	231	1.1
	Nonpartisan	Daryl Quick	216	1.1
	Nonpartisan	Charlitta Burruss (withdrawn)	113	0.6
Total votes			20,314	100%^[a]
General election
	Nonpartisan	Elaine O'Neal	25,936	84.6
	Nonpartisan	Javiera Caballero	4,463	14.6
	Nonpartisan	Steve Schewel (write-in)	8	0.0
	Write-in		235^[b]	0.8
Total votes			30,642	100%

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