DALLAS — Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson won’t have an opponent in the general election this spring, city officials confirmed Monday.
City Secretary Bilierae Johnson told The Dallas Morning News on Monday that the only person who filed to oppose the incumbent for the May 6 election, Jrmar Jefferson, didn’t have enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.
It makes the incumbent the first sitting Dallas mayor to run unopposed since Erik Jonsson in 1967. He received more than 19,500 votes en route to his second of three full terms. He served as mayor until 1971.
