2017 Detroit mayoral election

The 2017 Detroit mayoral election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect the Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. It was the first mayoral election for the city since it emerged from state control under Michigan's emergency manager law. Incumbent Mike Duggan won re-election to a second term.
The Mayor of Detroit is elected on a non-partisan basis, where the candidates are not listed by political party. A non-partisan primary election was held on August 8, 2017. The top two finishers advanced to the general election on November 7, 2017.

Candidates

Half of the eight candidates that were in the race as of August 2017 are ex-felons.

Articia M. Bomer, document specialist
Edward Dean, youth mentor
Mike Duggan, incumbent Mayor
Curtis Christopher Greene, author, activist, and minister
Donna Marie Pitts
Danetta L. Simpson
Coleman Young II, State Senator and son of former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young
Ken Snapp, student, mentor and activist
Ingrid LaFleur, write-in candidate, Afrofuturist
William Noakes, write-in candidate, attorney, preacher, business executive, professor
Myya Jones, write-in candidate; 22 year old Michigan State University graduate

Anita Belle, President of the Reparations Labor Union, substitute teacher, and political activist
Angelo S. Brown
Jeffrey Robinson, principal and pastor
Brenda K. Sanders, former judge and candidate for mayor in 2009
Eric Williams, lawyer