Early vote results show Lowery leading Democratic primary for county mayor
Shelby County mayoral candidate Mickell Lowery is gets a hug from a supporter after the second round of voter data comes in May 5, 2026. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
There were 57,164 early and absentee ballots in Shelby County prior to Tuesday’s Election Day. That batch of votes is the first counted by the election commission.
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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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