2025 Marietta mayoral election
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The 2025 Marietta mayoral election was held on November 4, 2025, to elect the mayor of Marietta, Georgia. Incumbent mayor Steve Tumlin was re-elected to a fifth term.[1]
Declared
- Sam Foster, IT systems engineer and activist[2]
- Steve Tumlin, incumbent mayor[3]
Withdrawn
- Sully Diaz, community organizer (ran for city council)[4]
Campaign
Tumlin launched his re-election campaign in early August 2025, focusing on affordable housing as a campaign issue.[1] Foster entered the race as one of the youngest mayoral candidates in Marietta's history, at 24 years old.[5] As Tumlin is 78, Foster focused his campaign on the generational differences between the two, promising to bring "new and different leadership."[6] Foster used platforms such as TikTok and Instagram to promote his campaign.[7]
Endorsements
Sam Foster
- State legislators
- Lisa Campbell, state representative from the 35th district (2023–present)[8]
- Gabriel Sanchez, state representative from the 42nd district (2025–present)[8]
- Ruwa Romman, state representative from the 97th district (2023–present)[9]
- Party chapters
- Cobb County Democratic Party[10]
- Organizations
- Collective PAC[11]
- Jane Fonda Climate PAC[12]
- Georgia Conservation Voters[13]
- Run for Something[14]
- Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund[15]
- Vote Common Good[16]
- Young Democrats of Cobb County[17]
- Young Democrats of Georgia[18]
- Political parties