John Ewing unseats Jean Stothert to become next Omaha mayor

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Longtime Mayor Jean Stothert has conceded and congratulated John Ewing on his historic election as Omaha’s next mayor.

Tuesday's general election upset makes Ewing the city’s first elected Black mayor.

Also on Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly passed the city charter amendment, which mandates that City Council vacancies be filled by an election if the office is vacated in the first two years of the term.

ELECTION PREVIEW WITH BOTH CANDIDATES

Here’s an update from the second round of ballot totals released at 10:25 p.m.

OMAHA MAYOR

• Jean Stothert* - 43.7%
• John Ewing Jr. - 56.3%

* = incumbent

bold = unofficial winner

CITY COUNCIL

Dist. 1

• Pete Festersen* - 70.4%
• Mark Brannen - 29.6%

Dist. 2

• Ben Gray - 40.7%
• LaVonya Goodwin - 59.3%

Dist. 3

• Danny Begley* - 64.8%
• Michael Pilypaitis - 35.2%

Dist. 4

• Ron Hug* - 61.4%
• Andrew Adams - 38.6%

Dist. 5

• Don Rowe* - 100%

Dist. 6

• Brinker Harding* - 100%

Dist. 7

• Aimee Melton* - 55%
• Tim Carter - 45%

* = incumbent

bold = unofficial winner

CITY CHARTER AMENDMENT

• For: 80.2%
• Against: 19.8%