2023 Fort Worth mayoral election

2023 Fort Worth mayoral election
← 2021 May 6, 2023 2025 →
 
Candidate Mattie Parker Jennifer Castillo
Popular vote 30,118 5,315
Percentage 69.3% 12.2%

 
Candidate Kenneth Bowens, Jr. Alyson Kennedy
Popular vote 3,793 2,276
Percentage 8.7% 5.2%

Mayor before election

Mattie Parker

Elected Mayor

Mattie Parker

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The 2023 Fort Worth mayoral election was held on May 6, 2023, to elect the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Republican mayor Mattie Parker won re-election to a second two-year term in office.

Candidates

Declared

  • Ken Bowens Jr., entrepreneur (Party affiliation: Independent)[1]
  • Jennifer Castillo, realtor[2]
  • Alyson Kennedy, cashier and perennial candidate (Party affiliation: Socialist Workers)[3]
  • Mattie Parker, incumbent mayor (Party affiliation: Republican)[4]
  • Chris Rector, author and candidate in 2021[5]
  • Adrian Smith, veteran[6]

Declined

Results

2023 Fort Worth mayoral election[8]
Candidate Votes %
Mattie Parker (incumbent) 30,118 69.32
Jennifer Castillo 5,315 12.23
Kenneth Bowens Jr. 3,793 8.73
Alyson Kennedy 2,276 5.24
Adrian Smith 1,948 4.48
Total votes 43,450 100.00

References

  1. ^ "Ken Bowens Jr., entrepreneur, files to run for Fort Worth mayor".
  2. ^ "Jennifer Castillo, entrepreneur and realtor, files to run for mayor".
  3. ^ "Alyson Kennedy, cashier and activist, files to run for mayor".
  4. ^ "Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker files for reelection".
  5. ^ "Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker Faces Five Challengers in 2023 Mayoral Election".
  6. ^ "Adrian Smith, veteran, files to run for Mayor".
  7. ^ "Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker is set to run again: 'She would be pretty hard to beat'".
  8. ^ "Fort Worth – Mayor". KXAS-TV.
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