She also wanted to make the government more transparent for the average citizen, including open mayoral forums.

[5] Lindburgh Jackson ran to improve the treatment of the northwest area of Auburn, and focus on diversity issues in the community.

[6] Auburn University student Jordan Langdon filed paperwork to run for mayor on 24 July 2018.

[12] The top two candidates from the first round, former councilman Ron Anders Jr, and David Hill, advanced.

As no candidate received a majority of the vote, Kelley Griswold and Todd Scholl advanced to the runoff election on 9 October 2018.

Sarah Brown and Bob Parsons moved to a runoff due to neither candidate receiving a majority of the vote.