Bill Knight
Knight wins mayoral race
GREENSBORO — Bill Knight beat incumbent Mayor Yvonne Johnson on Tuesday, according to unofficial results.
With all 106 precincts reporting, Knight had 17,580 votes to Johnson’s 16,616. It was the first time an incumbent mayor has lost since Greensboro’s voters first started choosing the mayor at large in 1973.
Knight, who has not held public office before and was running for mayor for the first time, had pushed for better control over city finances and better leadership over the police department.
The new City Council will be sworn in on Dec. 1. Their terms will last two years.
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I am pleased to be a candidate for Mayor of the City of Greensboro. I have lived, worked, attended school, and raised a family in Greensboro. Now I want to get directly involved in our city government, where I promise to work at rebuilding missing leadership, trust, and real civic pride that once was our hallmark. We deserve a City Council that will be trusted to be open, attentive to the important business of city government, and direct the City Manager to manage our finances and departments in a manner that leads to responsible uses of taxpayer money.
