2025 Detroit mayoral election

The 2025 Detroit mayoral election was held on November 4, 2025, to elect the next mayor of Detroit, Michigan. It was preceded by a primary election held on August 5, in which the two highest-placing candidates advanced to the general election. Municipal elections in Michigan are officially nonpartisan.

Incumbent mayor Mike Duggan was eligible to run for re-election to a fourth term but is instead running in the 2026 Michigan gubernatorial election. Mary Sheffield, the Democratic Party-affiliated president of the Detroit City Council going into the mayoral election, defeated the Reverend Solomon Kinloch Jr., the senior pastor of a Southeast Michigan-based Charismatic Christian megachurch, in the November 4 general election.

Candidates

Filed

The deadline for candidates to file their paperwork to appear on the ballot was April 22, 2025. The following candidates filed by that deadline:

• Jonathan Barlow, businessman (party affiliation: Democratic)
• James Craig, former chief of the Detroit Police Department (2013–2021) and candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2022 and U.S. Senate in 2024 (party affiliation: Republican)
• Fred Durhal III, Detroit City Council member from the 7th district (2021–present) (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Joel Haashiim, businessman (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Saunteel Jenkins, former president of the Detroit City Council (2013–2014) from the at-large district (2010–2014) (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Solomon Kinloch Jr., senior pastor of Triumph Church (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Todd Perkins, attorney (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Mary Sheffield, president of the Detroit City Council (2022–present) from the 5th district (2014–present) (party affiliation: Democratic)
• DaNetta Simpson, retired cosmetologist, niece of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad, and perennial candidate

Write-in candidates

• Arnold Boyd, businessman
• Rogelio Landin, Michigan state director for the League of United Latin American Citizens

Declined

• Mike Duggan, incumbent mayor (2014–present): running for governor as an independent candidate
• Garlin Gilchrist, Democratic incumbent Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (2019–present): running for governor
• Portia Robertson, CEO of , member of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, and candidate for in 2022 (party affiliation: Democratic)
• Joe Tate, Democratic state representative from the 10th district (2019–present) and former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: running for U.S. Senate (withdrew)
• Mary D. Waters, at-large Detroit City Council member (2022–present) and candidate for in 2024 (party affiliation: Democratic): successfully ran for reelection the Detroit City Council

Primary election

Polling

Endorsements

Debates

Results

General election

Candidates

• Mary Sheffield, president of the Detroit City Council (2022–present) from the 5th district (2014–present)
• Solomon Kinloch Jr., senior pastor of Triumph Church

Polling

Post-primary endorsements

Debate

Results

Notes

Partisan clients

References

External links

Official campaign websites

• Solomon Kinloch (D) for Mayor
• Mary Sheffield (D) for Mayor