The 2019 Salt Lake City mayoral election took place on November 5, 2019, to elect the

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. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and is officially nonpartisan. In what was regarded to be a surprise, first-term incumbent mayor

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announced on March 16, 2019, that she would not be seeking a second term, citing a "serious and complex family situation". A primary election was held on August 15 to determine the two candidates that moved on to the November general election.

Erin Mendenhall Erin Mendenhall (born June 8, 1980) is an American politician and activist who has been serving as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah since 2020. Upon taking office as Salt Lake City’s 36th mayor, Mendenhall became the city’s third and younges ...

defeated

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in the runoff.

Primary election

Polling

Results

General election

Polling

Endorsements

Results

Notes

Partisan clients

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