May county primaries draw turnout of almost 11% in setting the stage for August county general election
Shelby County District Attorney Democratic primary candidate Steve Mulroy (center left) and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (center right) celebrate election returns during Lee’s election watch party on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Election for mayor narrows to a race between the incumbent and a Memphis City Council member.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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