[3] This was a great result for Green who, 7 years earlier as the running mate of Al Lewis, helped the nascent Green Party of New York to achieve automatic ballot access by winning over 50,000 votes in the 1998 New York gubernatorial election.

Incumbent Mayor Gerald Jennings defeated Corey Ellis, a city council member, by a vote of 8,130 to 6,301.

[14] On November 5, Sheehan won the general election in a landslide, receiving over 83% of the total vote.

[15] Kathy Sheehan Democratic Kathy Sheehan Democratic The 2017 mayoral election in Albany, New York, was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in the incumbent Kathy Sheehan, a member of the Democratic Party, being re-elected to a second term over Conservative Party candidate Joseph Sullivan, Green Party candidate Bryan Jimenez, and Independence Party candidate Frank Commisso Jr.[16][17] Sheehan won the Democratic primary election with less than 50 percent of the vote.

He criticized Sheehan over her handling of the city's finances and on the issue of tax breaks.

Incumbent Democratic mayor Kathy Sheehan won re-election to a third term in office.