Sylvester Turner John Whitmire The 2023 Houston mayoral election was held on November 7, 2023, with a runoff on December 9 because no candidate won a majority of the vote in the first round.

Incumbent Democratic mayor Sylvester Turner was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term in office.

[1] Two longtime fixtures of Houston politics, state senator John Whitmire and U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee, advanced to the runoff.

[81] Whitmire would also deliver opening remarks when Lee would lie in state at Houston City Hall on July 29, 2024.

[82] Turner replaced Jackson Lee as the Democratic nominee and would go on to win in the same seat at the District 18 House election in November 2024 to succeed her.