NATCHEZ, Miss. – Next month’s city elections are being delayed a week because they can’t be held the same day as the congressional election.
The six-member Natchez Board of Aldermen on Monday rescheduled to April 9 an election that has just three city wards with contested races. Three aldermen face opponents while Mayor Dan Gibson and three aldermen have no challengers in their way to serve another term.
Originally scheduled for April 2, the municipal party primaries can’t take place the same day as the Republican congressional runoff set for that day, Gibson said. Moving the city election date a week later will avert complications voters would encounter having federal and city elections the same day with different polling places to cast their separate ballots.
The city’s April 9 Democratic primaries have Natchez Ward 1 Alderman Valencia Hall being challenged by Larry Hooper; Ward 4 Alderman Felicia Irving challenged by Michael Calcote and Adrian Fulton; Ward 5 Alderman Ben Davis challenged by Jamar White.
No one is running against Ward 2 Alderman Billie Joe Frazier, Ward 3 Alderman Sarah Carter Smith and Ward 6 Alderman Curtis Moroney.
There are no Republicans in the running. Tarsha White filed to run in Ward 5 as an independent in the June 4 general election, which will mostly be uncontested races that will officially elect Gibson and the aldermen for their new four-year term that begins in July.
Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith are in April 2’s Congressional District 2 runoff to decide the Republican nominee to face Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson in November’s federal elections.
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