Democrat Muriel Bowser became the first mayor in 16 years to win re-election in Washington, D.C.
Just past midnight Wednesday, the Associated Press declared that Bowser had captured 84 percent of the vote. She had no serious opponents in either the primary or general election.
In 2014, she won with more than 54 percent of the vote.
However, Bowser, 46, was dealt a notable loss after Dionne Reeder, an area restaurateur, was unable to win one of the D.C. Council at-large seats.
Bowser had thrown her support behind Reeder — the first time in recent memory that D.C.’s mayor had openly tried to defeat an incumbent City Council member.
Instead, Elissa Silverman was granted a second term. Silverman is notably progressive, championing paid family and medical leave in 2016.
Democrat Anita Bonds also easily won re-election for D.C. City Council At Large member.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C’s nonvoting delegate to the House, and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine also retained their seats. Both are Democrats.
Elsewhere, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a Democrat, and council members Brianne K. Nadeau, D-Ward 1, Mary M. Cheh, D-Ward 3, Kenyan R. McDuffie, D-Ward 5, and Charles Allen, D-Ward 6, retained their seats.
The District of Columbia is home to nearly 700,000 people, but it is a federal district and not a state, and thus does not having any voting representation in Congress.
