2019 Grand Rapids mayoral election
November 5, 2019
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| Turnout | 20.58% | |||||||||||||||
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Precinct results Bliss: 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% No votes | ||||||||||||||||
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The 2019 Grand Rapids mayoral election took place on November 5, 2019. Incumbent Mayor Rosalynn Bliss ran for re-election to a second term. She was challenged by pastor Daniel Schutte, a 2018 Republican candidate for the State House. Because only two candidates filed, the August primary election was cancelled. Bliss defeated Schutte in a landslide, winning 84 percent of the vote to Schotte's 16 percent.
This was the last mayoral election to take place in an odd-numbered year following the passage of a 2020 charter amendment that moved mayoral elections to presidential election years. As a result, Bliss's term was extended by a year.