2003 Fort Wayne mayoral election

The 2003 Fort Wayne mayoral election was held on November 4 to elect the mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, US. It saw the reelection of Democratic incumbent Graham Richard, who again defeated Republican Linda Buskirk in what was a rematch of the 1999 election.

Fort Wayne mayoral election, 2003
November 4, 2003[1]
 
Nominee Graham Richard Linda Buskirk
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 27,279 19,717
Percentage 58.00% 41.92%
Mayor before election

Graham Richard
Democratic

 Elected Mayor

Graham Richard
Democratic

Elections in Indiana

Nominations

Primaries were held May 8.[2]

During its primaries, the voter turnout in Allen County, in which Fort Wayne is located, was 11.9%.[2]

Democratic primary
Democratic primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Graham Richard (incumbent) 5,061 88.85%
Democratic Charles Eberhard 330 5.79%
Democratic Thomas Allen Schrader 167 2.93%
Democratic David Christopher "Papa" Roach 138 2.42%
Total votes 5,696

Republican primary
Republican primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Linda Buskirk 8,233 88.26%
Republican O. "Bro" Blye 1,095 11.74%
Total votes 9,328

General election

The election was projected as a "tossup".[3] Despite the race having been projected to be close, Richard won a sizable victory over Buskirk.[4]

During the general election, the voter turnout in Allen County, in which Fort Wayne is located, was 30.63%.[1]

2003 was a good year for Democrats in Indiana's mayoral elections, with the party winning control of the mayoralties of all of the state's top seven most populous cities for the first time since 1959.[4] The Democratic Party also won control of the mayoralties in twenty of the state's thirty cities with populations above 25,000.[4] Additionally, in 2003, Democrats won more than 56% of partisan mayoral races in Indiana.[5]

General election results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Graham Richard (incumbent) 27,279 58.00%
Republican Linda Buskirk 19,717 41.92%
Write-ins 38 0.08%
Total votes 47,031

References
  1. "MUNICIPAL ELECTION ELECTION SUMMARY REPORT" (PDF). Allen County, Indiana. 6 November 2003. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. "MUNICIPAL PRIMARY 2003 ELECTION SUMMARY REPORT" (PDF). Allen County, Indiana. 5 May 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. "Indiana 2003 Racing Form Indiana 2003 Mayoral Races" (PDF). The Howey Political Report. 9 (26). 27 February 2003. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  4. Howey, Brian A. (5 November 2003). "Democrats control top 7 Hoosier cities" (PDF). The Howey Political Report. 10 (14). Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  5. Marschall, Melissa; Lappie, John (May 2016). "Mayoral Elections in Indiana 2003–2015" (PDF). Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
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