The 2021 Buffalo mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021. Democratic incumbent Byron Brown won re-election to a fifth term, defeating Democratic nominee India Walton through a write-in campaign.
Byron W. Brown
Dueling lawn signs for both Byron Brown and India Walton in a residential neighborhood, September 2021
The Democratic Socialists of America is a socialist political organization in the United States, and the largest such organization in US history, with more than 120,000 members as of July 2026. A big
2021 Buffalo mayoral election
…Against Mandatory Minimums and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, executive director of the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, announced her campaign on December 13, 2020. Le’Candice Durham, a compliance clerk for Buffalo's 3-1-1 line, ran in the election. Brown announced that…
Michael Harrington was the first chairman of DSA and its most prominent public figure until his death in 1989.
Dorothy Ray Healey, a prominent member of the New American Movement
Barbara Ehrenreich, a socialist feminist and co-chair of DSA from 1983
DSA members marching at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, 2011