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Duggan wins Detroit mayoral primary; Adams to be fall opponent Duggan had 72.5% of the vote with 100% of precincts reporting followed by Adams at 10%. Perennial candidate Tom Barrow was third with 6% and second-time candidate Myya Jones was fourth with 5%.  Duggan's chief of staff Alexis Wiley called the more than 60 percentage point gap a historic margin of victory. The turnout was listed Tuesday night as 11%, below the 14% rate in the August 2017 primary. Duggan held a Tuesday night party on the patio of Good Vibes on the city’s east side. The 63-year-old incumbent posed for photos w...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan scored a resounding victory in Tuesday's primary election and will face Anthony Adams, ex-deputy mayor to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in the Nov. 2 general election. The top two finishers Tuesday are members of the same generation - Duggan is 63 and Adams is 65 - and often talk about some of the same opportunities and challenges Detroit and its residents face. But Duggan notched a lopsided victory with slightly over 72% of the vote while Adams trailed far behind with almost 10%, according to election results posted by Wayne County early Wednesday at 2:1...

Incumbent Mike Duggan was first elected mayor in 2013. In 2017, he was re-elected by a margin of nearly 44 points, defeating Coleman Young II (D) with 71.6% of the vote to Young’s 27.8%. Duggan said that, if re-elected in 2021, he would "work every day to continue to make sure every neighborhood has a future and every Detroiter has a true opportunity to achieve your dreams." Anthony Adams is an attorney and served as deputy mayor of Detroit under former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D). He was also an executive assistant to Mayor Coleman Young, was a board member and general counsel for Detr...

by  Allan Lengel Left: Duggan and his fiance at a Tuesday victory party at Good Vibes Lounge, on the east side. Right: An anti Prop P ad. (Photos: Allan Lengel, Violet Ikonomova) In a somewhat predictable municipal primary with just 14-percent turnout, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan scored an easy victory, with Anthony Adams, the former deputy mayor under Kwame Kilpatrick, coming in second. Tom Barrow, who ran for mayor for the fifth time, came in third, solidifying his title as a perrenial loser.  Adams and Duggan will square off in November, in what will be an ...

Some of the candidates running against incumbent Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. Detroit’s primary election is Tuesday, Aug. 3, but you might not know it. In the mayor’s race, it hardly seems like the mighty Mayor Mike Duggan is even campaigning. But he doesn’t have to — he’s expected to handily win re-election for his third term. In fact, his campaign did not respond to numerous requests to answer a brief questionnaire that Metro Times sent to all the candidates in the Mayoral, City Clerk, and City Council races. While many inside and ...