Early Voting Starts Friday For Nashville Mayoral Election

NASHVILLE, TN -- It's a banner month for Nashvillians who love casting ballots.

Just days after more than 120,000 people cast ballots in the ultimately unsuccessful transit plan referendum, early voting begins Friday, May 4, in the special mayoral election. Election Day is Thursday, May 24. Voters in District 1 will also, in what has seemingly become an annual tradition in the northwest portion of the county, fill a councilmanic vacancy.

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There will be a week of early voting exclusive to the Howard Office Building at 700 2nd Avenue South. Dates and times for those days are:

• Friday, May 4: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
• Saturday, May 5: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
• Monday, May 7: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 8: 8 a.m.–7 p.m.
• Wednesday, May 9: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, May 10: 8 a.m.–7 p.m.

At the countywide early-voting locations, the dates and times are:

• Friday, May 11: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
• Saturday, May 12: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
• Monday, May 14: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 15: 8 a.m.–7 p.m.
• Wednesday, May 16: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, May 17: 8 a.m.–7 p.m.
• Friday, May 18: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
• Saturday, May 19: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Early voting locations are:

• Belle Meade City Hall, 4705 Harding Pike, Belle Meade
• Bellevue Library, 720 Baugh Road
• Bordeaux Library, 4000 Clarksville Pike
• Casa Azafrán Community Center, 2195 Nolensville Pike
• Edmondson Pike Library, 5501 Edmondson Pike
• Goodlettsville Community Center, 200 Memorial Drive, Goodlettsville
• Green Hills Library, 3701 Benham Avenue
• Hermitage Library, 3700 James Kay Lane, Hermitage
• Madison Station Fifty Forward, 301 Madison Street, Madison
• Howard Office Building, 700 2nd Avenue South
• Southeast Library, 5260 Hickory Hollow Parkway, Antioch

Visit the Election Commission website for more details.

There are 13 people running for mayor:

• Carlin Alford, director of customers success, BOLDplanning in Nashville
• David Briley, mayor
• Ralph Bristol, former conservative talk-radio host
• jeff obafemi carr, reverend and activist, most recently with the anti-transit effort
• Julia Clark-Johnson, educator
• Erica Gilmore, At-Large Metro councilmember
• Albert Hacker, clinical consultant for Brad Peripheral Vascular Surgery
• David Hiland, barber
• Harold Love, Jr., state representative
• Jeff Napier, mechanic and limo driver
• Jon Sewell, an actor and carpenter who declared a four-prong platform of "corruption, hypocrisy, influence and taxes" and said he didn't want people to vote for him
• Carol Swain, conservative columnist and activist, former Vanderbilt professor
• Luddye Wallace, Nashville NAACP president and former Metro councilmember

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