2025 Kansas City, Kansas mayoral election

2025 Kansas City, Kansas mayoral election

November 4, 2025
 
Nominee Christal
Watson
Rose Mulvany Henry
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 9,465 8,050
Percentage 54.04% 45.96%

Mayor before election

Tyrone Garner
Nonpartisan

Elected mayor

Christal Watson
Nonpartisan

The 2025 Kansas City, Kansas mayoral election was held on November 4, 2025 to elect the mayor of Kansas City, Kansas. A nonpartisan primary took place on August 5, 2025. Incumbent mayor Tyrone Garner did not seek re-election to a second term. Six candidates ran to succeed him. Rose Mulvany Henry and Christal Watson advanced to the general election after receiving the most votes in the primary election. Watson went on to defeat Henry in the general election, becoming the first woman to be elected mayor of Kansas City, Kansas.