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Deadline Detroit | Detroit City Council candidate guide: 7 candidates run to replace to-be indicted Andre Spivey


by 
Violet Ikonomova
Detroit voters this year have a chance to tip the balance of power on City Council, with four of nine seats up for grabs on a body that typically votes with Mayor Mike Duggan.
Nearly two dozen council candidates will appear on the primary and November ballots. Primaries will be held in Districts 1, 4, 7 and for two at-large, or citywide, seats. There will be no primary in Districts 2 and 6, where the two candidates in each race will automatically advance to the November ballot. District 5 Councilmember Mary Sheffield and District 3 Councilmember Scott Benson are meanwhile running for re-election unopposed. ....

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Here are the candidates running in Detroit's highly competitive City Council race | Local News | Detroit


Some of the candidates in Detroit s highly competitive City Council race.
Nearly half of Detroit City Council s members are not running for reelection, including President Brenda Jones, André Spivey, Raquel Castañeda-López, and Gabe Leland, who resigned after pleading guilty of accepting a cash bribe, creating a competitive race with more than 40 candidates. Candidates who did not respond to
Metro Times questionnaire include at-large candidate Nicole Small; District 1 incumbent James Tate and Darryl Brown, District 4 s Latisha Johnson, Daivon Reeder, and Virgil Smith; and District 7 s William Davis, Regina Ross, and JoAnna Underwood. Here are the ones who took the time to tell us all of us what they hope to accomplish on the City Council. ....

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