D.C. Reeves needed 7,512 votes to avoid a run-off in the mayor’s race and received 7,680 votes – a 169-vote margin.
Reeves 7,680 – 51%
Jewel Cannada Wynn 3,000 – 20%
Steve Sharp 2,407 – 16%
Sherri Myers 1,935 – 13%
The mayor’s race had 1,253 fewer votes than the 2018 primary, which had six candidates.
In District 2, former Pensacola Councilman Charles Bare came out of the early voting with a commanding lead, trailed by Char Powell. These two will face off in November.
Charles Bare 677 – 41%
Brian Hoffman 352 – 22%
Char Powell 423 – 26%
Brian Wyer 184 – 11%
This race only had 1,636 votes cast. The last time D2 had a contested race was in 2014 and 2,512 people voted.
In District 6, challenger Allison Patton will meet incumbent Ann Hill in the general.
Ann Hill 919 – 36%
Mo Padden 566 – 22%
Allison Patton 1,096 – 42%
In the 2018 general election, 3,407 people voted with Ann Hill receiving 2,010 of the votes to win.
The only “elected” city mayor to get less votes than DC Reeves (7,680) was John Fogg (6,028), in May 2001 when the first city began to elect its mayor. Until then, the city held its elections in the spring of odd-numbered years to separate them from the madness of the state/county election cycles. Many municipalities to include Fort Walton Beach still hold their elections in the spring of odd-numbered years. I got more votes (7,912) than Reeves when I finished second in a three-way 2008 mayoral race. The top mayoral vote getter of all times was Mike Wiggins (16,065) in 2008, more than twice as many votes as Reeves. Megan Pratt is the city election champion getting 17,859 votes in a 2008 at-large council election.