Herald Staff
Cincinnati voters will select new council members on November 2 from field of 35 candidates who met the August 19 deadline for filing, the most ever since the council-manager form of government was adopted in 1925.
Current incumbents Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Liz Keating, Greg Landsman, Betsy Sundermann, and Steve Goodin are on the ballot. Landsman is the only incumbent who was previously elected. Three of the original elected council members either resigned or were suspended from the council during 2020. They were replaced by appointed council members to fill out their terms – Republicans Steve Goodin and Liz Keating, along with Democrat Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney. Earlier, Republican Betsy Sundermann was appointed to council to replace Amy Murray, who resigned that year. Council members Wendell Young and Chris Seelbach, both Democrats, and Christopher Smitherman, an Independent, can’t run for re-election because of the Ohio term limit law. The same goes for Democrat David Mann, who is running for mayor against fellow Democrat and Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval.
Because of a charter amendment passed by voters, Cincinnati will return to the two-year terms it had from 1925 until 2013, rather than the four-year terms the amendment provided.
As always, it is a non-partisan election.
The Cincinnati City Council candidates are:
Jalen Alford, Democrat, Paddock Hills
Thomas Brinkman, Republican, Mt. Lookout
Jaime Castle, Democrat, Mt. Washington
LaKeisha Cook, Democrat, Westwood
Jeff Cramerding, Democrat, West Price Hill
Michelle Dillingham, Democrat, Over-the-Rhine
Kevin Flynn, Democrat. Mt. Airy
Jackie Frondorf, Democrat, Westwood
Bill Frost, Democrat, Pleasant Ridge
Brian Garry, Democrat, Pleasant Ridge
Steven P. Goodin, Republican, Clifton
Galen G. Gordon, Democrat, The West End
Kurt Grossman. Democrat, Central Business District
Reggie Harris, Democrat, Northside
Rob Harris II, Democrat, The West End
K. A. Heard Jr., Non-affiliated, Westwood
Evan C. Holt, Democrat, North Avondale
Nicholas Maleek Jabin, Non-affiliated, Mt. Washington
Mark Jeffreys, Democrat, Clifton
Scotty Johnson, Democrat, Mt. Airy
Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Democrat, North Avondale
Liz Keating, Republican, Hyde Park
Andrew E. Kennedy, Non-affiliated, Pleasant Ridge
Greg Landsman, Democrat, Mt. Washington
John R. Maher, Democrat, Northside
Peterson W. Mingo, Democrat, Evanston
Phillip O’Neal, Democrat, Avondale
Meeka Owens, Democrat, North Avondale
Victoria Parks, Democrat, College Hill
Te’Airea Powell, Democrat, East Westwood
Logan Simmering, Non-affiliated, North Avondale
Stacey Smith, Non-affiliated, West Price Hill
Betsy Sundermann, Republican, East Price Hill
James Tarbell, Democrat, Mt. Auburn
John J. Williams, Democrat, Central Business District
