David Mann

Independent Christopher Smitherman and Democrats David Mann, Chris Seelbach and Wendell Young served together on council for the last eight years, although each held office for at least a decade. The last four years in particular have been marked by public bickering, lawsuits, corruption and the global pandemic.

On Tuesday, voters in Cincinnati chose a new mayor, City Council and school board.

With 100% of the city's 250 precincts reporting, Pureval defeated Mann with 33,124 votes – or 66% – to 17,207 for his opponent.

The candidates for Cincinnati mayor — Council Member David Mann and Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval — faced off Thursday night in one final debate before Election Day.

Cincinnati voters will decide between Cincinnati City Council Member David Mann and Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval.

One thing is clear: It's going to be a brutal six weeks.

Does Cincinnati's next mayor need decades of experience at City Hall or fresh ideas for a new direction? David Mann and Aftab Pureval took a confrontational tone in the first debate Tuesday night.

In an election with just 15.6% turnout, Cincinnati voters have chosen from a field of six mayoral candidates the two who are complete polar opposites –…

Every year since 1974, the year I started covering politics, people have been asking me the same question over and over and over again on the day before…

I have known Cincinnati mayoral candidate David Mann for nearly 40 years – as a City Council member, as mayor, as a one-term congressman, and as an…