Racetracker: Mayor of Pensacola

Beginning with the 2010 elections, the Mayor of Pensacola will no longer be a member of the Pensacola City Council. He will instead serve as the City’s elected executive under the newly adopted Mayor-Council form of government.

Elections for Mayor of Pensacola are non-partisan. Beginning with in 2010, the Mayor of Pensacola will be elected to serve a four-year term. The executive mayor’s salary has not yet been set by the City Council.

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The District
Declared candidates
Diane Mack
Mike Wiggins (i)
Charles Bare
John Fogg
Potential candidates
Ashton Hayward
Lumon May

The District

The Mayor of Pensacola is elected at-large. All registered City electors are eligible to vote in the mayoral race.

Declared candidates

Diane Mack

Diane Mack currently serves as an at-large member of the Pensacola City Council. She filed to run for Mayor of Pensacola on January 25, 2010. If elected, she would be Pensacola’s first female mayor.

Campaign website: http://www.dianemackcampaign.com/

Mike Wiggins (i)

Mike Wiggins is the current Mayor of Pensacola and the last to be elected under the City’s previous council-manager form of government. Despite opposing the new City Charter, he announced shortly after the Charter’s adoption by referendum that he would run for the new executive mayor position. Mr. Wiggins filed for the position on February 22, 2010.

Charles Bare

Charles L. Bare is a small business owner. He is a UWF graduate and served in Iraq in 2003-2004. He filed to run for mayor on February 22, 2010.

Campaign website: http://advancepensacola.com/

John Fogg

John Fogg previously served as Mayor of Pensacola from 1994-2009, and before that as a City Council member since 1989. Mr. Fogg served as a Marine Corps pilot during the Vietnam War, and was a member of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team. He filed to run for mayor on February 24, 2010.

Potential candidates

Ashton Hayward

Ashton Hayward is a real estate developer and businessman who has shown interest in the race.

Lumon May

Lumon May is a community leader and co-owner of May’s Construction. In 2008, he unsuccessfully ran for the Florida House District 3 seat. If elected, he would be the City of Pensacola’s first African-American mayor since Reconstruction.