Carolyn Goodman
Carolyn Goodman is the Mayor of Las Vegas in Nevada. She assumed office on July 6, 2011. Her current term ends in 2024.
Goodman won re-election for Mayor of Las Vegas in Nevada outright in the primary on April 2, 2019, after the general election was canceled.
Goodman succeeded her husband, Oscar B. Goodman, who had served the maximum of three terms in office.
Goodman switched her partisan affiliation from Democratic to nonpartisan in 2009.[1][2][3]
Goodman is a former vocational counselor and the founder of The Meadows School.[4]
Biography
Goodman earned an M.S. in counseling from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her professional experience includes working as a vocational counselor in West Las Vegas for the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1984, she founded The Meadows School, a nonprofit college preparatory school in Las Vegas for pre-kindergarten through 12th grades.[4]
Elections
2024
Carolyn Goodman was not able to file for re-election due to term limits.
2019
See also: Mayoral election in Las Vegas, Nevada (2019)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Las Vegas
The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Las Vegas on April 2, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carolyn Goodman (Nonpartisan) | 83.5 | 22,316 |
 | Phil Collins (Nonpartisan) | 5.3 | 1,417 | |
 | Amy Luciano (Nonpartisan)  | 3.1 | 824 | |
 | Tina Alexander (Nonpartisan) | 2.9 | 786 | |
 | Mack Miller (Nonpartisan) | 2.3 | 616 | |
 | Vance Sanders (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 529 | |
 | Zachary Krueger (Nonpartisan) | 0.9 | 235 | |
| Total votes: 26,723 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Moore (Nonpartisan)
Note: The general election was canceled after incumbent Carolyn Goodman won the position outright by receiving more than 50% of the votes cast in the primary election.
2015
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada, was initially scheduled to hold elections for mayor and city council on June 2, 2015. A primary election took place on April 7, 2015.[5] Because one candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary election, the general election was called off. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was February 6, 2015.[6] Three of the six city council seats were up for election.
In the primary election for mayor, incumbent Carolyn Goodman defeated Stavros S. Anthony, Margaret Ann Coleman, Phil "LOL" Cory, Bruce Feher and Abdul H. Shabazz.[7][8]
| Mayor of Las Vegas, Primary Election, 2015 | |||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Carolyn Goodman Incumbent |
54.5% | 20,443 | |
| Stavros S. Anthony | 42% | 15,761 | |
| Phil "LOL" Cory | 2.5% | 955 | |
| Abdul H. Shabazz | 0.9% | 326 | |
| Total Votes | 37,485 | ||
| Source: Clark County, Nevada, "Official primary election results," accessed May 10, 2015 | |||
Note: Although Margaret Ann Coleman and Bruce Feher appeared on the official candidate list, they were not included on the official election results.
2011
In the 2011 general election for mayor of Las Vegas, Goodman defeated Chris Giunchigliani.
| Mayor of Las Vegas, 2011 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Carolyn Goodman |
60.5% | 33,104 | |
| Chris Giunchigliani | 39.5% | 21,601 | |
| Total Votes | 54,705 | ||
| Source: Clark County Elections - 2011 Official Results | |||
Personal
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Goodman is married to Oscar Goodman, who served as the mayor of Las Vegas from 1999-2011. He was unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits.[4]
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Carolyn Goodman did not complete Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
Noteworthy events
Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
Goodman was mayor of Las Vegas during the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, when events and activity took place in cities across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd. Events in Las Vegas, Nevada, began on Thursday, May 28, 2020, at the MGM Grand on the Strip.[9] No curfews were issued. The national guard was not deployed.
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See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Las Vegas Review-Journal, "Goodmans to register nonpartisan," December 15, 2009
- ↑ Nevada Appeal, "Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, changing parties, mulling governor bid," December 15, 2009
- ↑ Nevada Independent, "‘The forefront of America’s reopening:’ Goodman, in attempt to soothe worried constituents, downplays coronavirus threat in public and in emails," April 26, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Correspondence with City Clerk Beverly Bridges on November 17, 2014.
- ↑ City of Las Vegas, "Official 2015 Candidate List," accessed February 9, 2015
- ↑ Clark County Nevada, "Unofficial election results," accessed April 8, 2015
- ↑ KSNV, "Las Vegas residents gather on the Strip to protest death of George Floyd," May 28, 2020
- ↑ Washington Post, "The death of George Floyd: What video and other records show about his final minutes," May 30, 2020
- ↑ The New York Times, "8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody," May 31, 2020
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 USA Today, "Medical examiner and family-commissioned autopsy agree: George Floyd's death was a homicide," June 1, 2020
- ↑ Associated Press, "Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death," April 20, 2021
- ↑ CNN, "Protests across America after George Floyd's death," accessed June 2, 2020
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