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Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 6, 2023

Memphis voters on Thursday elected Paul Young, the current head of the Downtown Memphis Commission, as their next mayor. The Commercial Appeal reports that with 27.62% of the vote, Young won the mayoral race with 24,408 total votes — 4,500 more than his closest competitor, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner. Former mayor Willie Herenton came in third, followed by attorney Van Turner. Voters also selected a number of new council members. Here are those results. Three of the council’s single-member districts remain undecided after no candidate garnered a majority of the vote, according to unofficial results. The races for those districts will go to a runoff on Nov. 16.