The pandemic is over but the Randemic continues.

Amid cheers of threepeat and “Randemic,” Randall Woodfin won his third election for mayor of Birmingham on Tuesday night.

Once again, it wasn’t close.

Balloons cascaded from the ceiling as the mayor concluded his acceptance speech before a crowd of about 900 gathered at WorkPlay. The balloons had long since burst for the other mayoral candidates on the ballot.

His supporters erupted in cheers when totals from the first box showed on screen that he had more than 70% of the vote. Little had changed by 9:30 p.m. as, with 68% of the boxes reporting, he had snared 71.7% of votes.

Ten minutes later, 78% of the boxes were reporting and he had his share of the total to 73.74%.

Ultimately, the 44-year-old lawyer and former school board president captured 74.87% of the vote, with almost 25,000 ballots cast in his name.

Jefferson County Commissioner Lashunda Scales was his closest competitor, taking just 14.58% of the vote.

Eight challengers lined up to try to block the mayor from winning a third term, a feat not achieved since former Mayor Richard Arrington Jr. ended his five-term run in 1999. The campaign was at times vitriolic, laced with personal jabs as well as a debate over whether the city was headed down the right path. It was from one such attack that Woodfin coined his newest nickname.

But Woodfin said Tuesday night he took offense to charges lobbed against him that his administration had done nothing.

“It’s just not offensive to me,” the mayor said. “It’s offensive to the 3,000 (city employees). I want to thank the men and women who put on a uniform of 30-plus departments in the city of Birmingham.”

The mayor spoke to those who voted for him and those who didn’t.

“I work for you,” he said. “Because I work for you, I want you to know I hear you and I see you and I want you to know that I’m ready to keep moving the city forward with you.”

The mayor looked back eight years, recalling that when he first ran, “Birmingham deserved better.”

“Tonight, we celebrate what we built together, not just me as a person, but together,” he said. “We led in a pandemic. We stood up for justice. We never stopped putting people first.

“But our work isn’t done,” Woodfin continued. “Although we can say that we decreased homicides this year by 50%, that we sent over 2,000 students to college tuition-free, the work isn’t done.”

Woodfin initially ran for mayor in August 2017, challenging incumbent William Bell along with 10 other candidates. In the general election, Woodfin won 40% of the vote to trigger a runoff with second-place Bell, an election Woodfin won to become the city’s youngest mayor in more than 120 years. The mayor easily avoided a runoff in his second bid for the seat, as he did Tuesday night.

Running a distant third in the races was Alabama Rep. Juandalynn Givan, who took 4.25% of the votes cast Tuesday, trailed by Frank Woodson with 3.05%; Brian Rice with 1.98%; Jerimy Littlepage with 0.58%; Kamau Afrika with 0.32%; David Russell with 0.22%; and Marilyn James-Johnson with 0.16%.