Shameka Parrish-Wright

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Lost mayoral race; will leave Metro Council early next year and continue as VOCAL Kentucky executive director

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg won a second four-year term with 54.8% of the vote, defeating Metro Council Member Shameka Parrish-Wright in the city's first nonpartisan mayoral general election. Final county totals showed Greenberg with more than 130,000 votes to nearly 97,000 for Parrish-Wright, plus about 11,000 write-ins.

Updated 2 days ago

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Lost the nonpartisan mayoral race to incumbent Craig Greenberg on November 3, 2026

More than 225,000 Jefferson County voters had cast ballots by 3:45 p.m. on Election Day, about 38% of the county's registered voters, the Jefferson County Clerk's Office said. Polls closed at 6 p.m. in Kentucky and Indiana.

Updated 4 days ago

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Challenging incumbent Craig Greenberg; calls the monitoring federal overreach

Federal election monitors worked Kentucky's Nov. 3 election from outside a 100-foot boundary at polling places in Louisville and Lexington, after local and state officials refused them entry. Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said about a dozen Justice Department employees were expected in Louisville as civil monitors, not law enforcement. His office told the DOJ that Kentucky law did not authorize routine federal monitoring inside polls.

Updated Nov 1