Incumbent Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger defeated independent candidates Carina Driscoll, who had the support of the Vermont Progressive Party, and Infinite Culcleasure.

[4] The Democratic Party gave its endorsement to Weinberger without opposition at its caucus on January 7, 2018.

[10] Infinite Culcleasure, a community organizer, announced that he would run as an independent candidate for mayor on December 1, 2017.

She also attempted to unite the campaigns as due to Burlington's usage of first-past-the-post voting "the mayor can win on a plurality".

[10] Weinberger won in the general election with 48.38% of the popular vote against Driscoll's 34.96% and Culcleasure's 16.07%.