An election for Mayor of Tampa was held on March 5, 2019. The election is officially nonpartisan, and the winner is elected to a four-year term.
Incumbent mayor Bob Buckhorn was not eligible to run for a third term. Buckhorn was first elected in 2011 (winning in the second round with 62.86% of the vote) and reelected unopposed in 2015. Jane Castor and David Straz headed off into a runoff election on April 23, 2019, as no candidate received the majority fifty percent. Castor defeated Straz in the runoff election, becoming mayor-elect of Tampa.
Candidates
Declared
- Harry Cohen, two term city councilman
- Jane Castor, former police chief
- Dick Greco Jr., retired judge and son of former mayor Dick A. Greco
- Michael Anthony Hazard, small business owner
- LaVaughn King, activist
- Topher Morrison, small business owner
- David Straz Jr., philanthropist
- Mike Suarez, member of Tampa City Council
- Ed Turanchik, former Hillsborough County commissioner
Did not file
- Ed Narain, former state representative
- Mike Griffin, former chairman of Tampa Chamber of Commerce
Withdrawn
- Sam Gibbons, graduate student and grandson of late U.S. representative Sam Gibbons
Endorsements
Fundraising
Polling