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Elections are held every four years in the off-year immediately after United States presidential election years in Albany, New York, to elect the city's mayor.

Elections before 2005

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2005

2005 Albany mayoral election

← 2001 November 8, 2005 2009 →

Nominee Gerald Jennings Alice Green Joseph Sullivan Party Democratic Green Republican Popular vote 15,367 5,548 1,465 Percentage 68.65% 24.79% 6.54%

Mayor before election Gerald Jennings Democratic Elected mayor Gerald Jennings Democratic

The 2005 Albany mayoral election occurred on November 8, 2005. Incumbent Democrat Gerald Jennings was reelected to a fourth consecutive term.

Primaries

Primary elections were held on September 13, 2005.

Democratic

Candidates

• Gerald Jennings - incumbent mayor
• Archie Goodbee - retired broadcasting executive

Conservative

General election

In the general election, Jennings defeated Green Party candidate Alice Green, and Republican Party candidate Joseph Sullivan, a perennial candidate and local activist. This was a great result for Green who, 7 years earlier as the running mate of Al Lewis, helped the nascent Green Party of New York to achieve automatic ballot access by winning over 50,000 votes in the 1998 New York gubernatorial election.

2009

2009 Albany mayoral election

← 2005 November 3, 2009 2013 →

Nominee Gerald Jennings Corey Ellis Nathan Lebron Party Democratic Working Families Republican Alliance Conservative Popular vote 10,466 4,801 1,178 Percentage 63.52% 29.14% 7.15%

Mayor before election Gerald Jennings Democratic Elected mayor Gerald Jennings Democratic

The Albany, New York, mayoral election of 2009 occurred on November 3, 2009. It saw the reelection of Democrat Gerald Jennings to a fifth consecutive term.

Democratic primary

The Democratic Party primary was held on September 15, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Gerald Jennings defeated Corey Ellis, a city council member, by a vote of 8,130 to 6,301.

General election

In the general election, Jennings (running on both the Democratic and Conservative Party lines) defeated Ellis (running as the Working Families Party candidate), and Republican Party candidate Nathan Lebron. Jennings got 10,466 votes in total, Ellis came in second with 4,801 votes, and LeBron got 1,178 votes; there were also a few dozen write-in votes.

2013

2013 Albany mayoral election

← 2009 November 5, 2013 2017 →

Nominee Kathy Sheehan Jesse Calhoun Party Democratic Republican Alliance Parties Independence Working Families Popular vote 13,134 1,025 Percentage 83.49% 6.52%

Mayor before election Gerald Jennings Democratic Elected mayor Kathy Sheehan Democratic

The Albany, New York mayoral election of 2013 took place on November 5, 2013. The general election was preceded by the primaries on September 10, 2013. The winner of the election was Democratic nominee Kathy Sheehan.

Incumbent Democratic mayor Gerald Jennings did not seek reelection.

Background

The 2013 mayoral election was the City of Albany's first open-seat mayoral election since 1993. Incumbent mayor Gerald Jennings announced on May 14, 2013, that he would not run for a sixth term. Jennings is the second-longest-serving mayor in the history of Albany (Erastus Corning 2nd was the city's longest-tenured mayor).

Democratic primary

On November 17, 2012, Sheehan announced herself as a candidate for mayor. On September 10, 2013, Sheehan defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary. According to official returns released on October 9, Sheehan won the Democratic nomination with 7,468 votes (65.72%) to Ellis's 3,294 votes (28.99%), with 601 write in votes (5.29%) and a few void and blank ballots.

General election

In addition to Sheehan, who ran on the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence Party lines, Jesse D. Calhoun was the candidate of the Republican Party, Joseph P. Sullivan ran on the Conservative Party line, and Theresa M. Portelli (a former Albany City school board member) ran on the Green Party line.

On November 5, Sheehan won the general election in a landslide, receiving over 83% of the total vote.

2017

2017 Albany mayoral election

← 2013 November 7, 2017 2021 →

Nominee Kathy Sheehan Frank Commisso Jr. Party Democratic Independence Alliance Parties Women's Equality Working Families Popular vote 11,520 3,687 Percentage 70.42% 22.54%

Mayor before election Kathy Sheehan Democratic Elected mayor Kathy Sheehan Democratic

The 2017 mayoral election in Albany, New York, was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in the incumbent Kathy Sheehan, a member of the Democratic Party, being re-elected to a second term over Conservative Party candidate Joseph Sullivan, Green Party candidate Bryan Jimenez, and Independence Party candidate Frank Commisso Jr.

Democratic primary

Sheehan won the Democratic primary election with less than 50 percent of the vote. Frank Commisso Jr., a member of the Albany Common Council; and Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Common Council, also ran.

General election

Commisso ran again in the general election as the candidate of the Independence Party. He criticized Sheehan over her handling of the city's finances and on the issue of tax breaks. Sheehan responded to Commisso's criticism through television advertisements, which were funded by a $387,000 loan from Sheehan to her campaign.

2021

2021 Albany mayoral election

← 2017 2 November 2021 2025 →
Turnout	14,015
Candidate Kathy Sheehan Alicia M. Purdy Gregory J. Aidala Party Democratic Republican Independence Party of New York Alliance Conservative Popular vote 8,837 2,385 2,374 Percentage 63.05% 17.02% 16.94%
Mayor before election Kathy M. Sheehan Democratic Elected mayor Kathy M. Sheehan Democratic

The 2021 mayoral election in Albany, New York, was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent Democratic mayor Kathy Sheehan won re-election to a third term in office.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

• Valerie Faust, reverend and write-in candidate for mayor in 2009 and 2013
• Kathy Sheehan, incumbent mayor

Disqualified

• Marlon Anderson, advocate (continued as a write-in candidate)
• Lukee Forbes, activist

Declined

• Dorcey Applyrs, Chief City Auditor of Albany (endorsed Sheehan)
• Corey Ellis, president of the Albany Common Council and candidate for mayor in 2009 and 2013 (endorsed Sheehan)

Republican primary

Candidates

• Alicia Purdy, radio host (also nominated by the Conservative Party)

Third-party and independent candidates

• Greg Aidala, comedian and activist (Independence Party)
• Ved Dookhun (Socialist Workers Party)

General election

References

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