2017 Birmingham Elections
Woodfin Beats Incumbent Bell in Birmingham Mayor’s Race, Other Results

It appears Birmingham voters have replaced their mayor and the president of the City Council.
Randall Woodfin has beaten incumbent William Bell in the race for the mayor’s post. In unofficial vote returns Woodfin has taken almost 59 percent of the vote to Bell’s 41 percent.
It also appears that Council President Johnathan Austin has been beaten in his bid for re-election. In the District 5 race, Darrell O’Quinn had 52 percent of the vote to Austin’s 48 percent, though only about 200 votes separated the men in the district race.
The unofficial results, which do not include any provisional ballots cast:
MAYOR
William Bell: 41.06%
Randall Woodfin 58.94%
BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
District 2
Kim Rafferty 28.57%
Hunter Williams 71.43%
District 5
Johnathan Austin 48.31%
Darrell O’Quinn 51.69%
District 9
John Hilliard 50.58%
Roderick Royal 49.42%
BIRMINGHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION
District 1
Douglas Lee Ragland 51.73%
Cedric Small 48.27%
District 4
Daagye Hendricks 51.23%
Edward Maddox 48.77%
District 5
David T. McKinney 43.42%
Michael “Mickey” Millsap 56.58%
District 7
Patricia Spigner McAdory 60.01%
Walter “Big Walt” Wilson 39.99%
District 8
Patricia Bozeman-Henderson 36.33%
Sonja Q. Smith 63.67%