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Andre Dickens is sworn in for a second term, promising 'one Atlanta built on safety, opportunity, and shared purpose'

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:30:00 -0500

Andre Dickens was sworn in for a second term as mayor of Atlanta on Monday afternoon, becoming the 61st person to hold the office and only the fourth Atlanta mayor in modern history to begin a second consecutive full term without first winning a runoff.

The ceremony, held inside the Georgia State University Convocation Center, included all four of Dickens’s living predecessors — Andrew Young, Bill Campbell, Shirley Franklin, and Kasim Reed — seated in the front row of the dignitaries section.

Andre Dickens wins Atlanta mayor's race in a landslide, taking 85% of the vote

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:30:00 -0500

Andre Dickens cruised to a second term as mayor of Atlanta on Tuesday night, capturing roughly 85% of the vote and winning the nonpartisan race outright, with no need for a December runoff.

The Associated Press called the race at 8:13 p.m., less than two hours after polls closed. By the time Dickens took the stage at an Old Fourth Ward watch party shortly after 9 p.m., the result was already a foregone conclusion. The mayor thanked the city’s employees and roughly half a million residents, and called the Atlanta City Council “the best in the world.”