Stanley Makowski Democratic Jimmy Griffin Conservative Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The Buffalo mayoral election of 1977 took place in Buffalo, New York, USA, on November 8, 1977, and resulted in the election of Jimmy Griffin to his first term as mayor.

On the same day, Deputy New York State Assembly speaker Arthur Eve announced his candidacy for the post.

[3] Later in the election cycle, State Senator Jimmy Griffin entered the Democratic Primary.

The primary had had a voter turnout of 77–80% in the Black community, the highest ever for an African American community in the Northeast, and surpassed nationwide in terms of African American voter turnout only by the 1967 Mayor of Cleveland election of Carl Stokes.

[1] Griffin went on to win the general election by a ten percent margin over Eve, beating him and Republican candidate John J.