2025 Charlotte City Council election

2025 Charlotte City Council election

November 4, 2025

All 11 seats on the Charlotte City Council
6 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Danté Anderson Ed Driggs
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since December 4, 2023
Leader's seat 1st–Freedom Park 7th–Piper Glen
Last election 9 seats,
90.20% (at-large)
68.33% (districts)
2 seats,
0.00% (at-large)
28.52% (districts)
Seats won 10 1
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 369,854 (at-large)
84,730 (districts)
82,754 (at-large)
28,597 (districts)
Percentage 80.67% (at-large)
70.84% (districts)
18.05% (at-large)
23.91% (districts)

Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
Voteshare:
Democrats:      50–60%      70–80%      80–90%      ≥90%
Republicans:      80–90%

Mayor Pro Tem before election

Danté Anderson
Democratic

Elected Mayor Pro Tem

Smuggie Mitchell
Democratic

The 2025 Charlotte City Council elections were held on November 4, 2025, to elect all eleven members of the Charlotte City Council. Primary elections were held on September 9, 2025. This election represented the first change in the council's composition since 2011, and the first district flip since 1999.

Four members of the city council were elected at-large in an election where voters voted for four candidates, while the other seven were elected individually by geographic district.