Twelve candidates are running in the nonpartisan general election for mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, on August 3, 2023. If no candidate receives over 50% of the vote, the top two vote-getters will advance to a September 14, 2023, runoff election.
Incumbent Mayor John Cooper (D) did not seek re-election.
The Nashville Scene described the race saying, “In a matter of weeks, Nashville will elect its fourth mayor in five years. Following the 2018 resignation of Mayor Megan Barry in the wake of political scandal, the mayor’s office has been besieged with instability.”
