1999 Las Vegas mayoral election

1999 Las Vegas mayoral election
May 4, 1999 (first round)
June 8, 1999 (runoff)
 
Candidate Oscar Goodman Arnie Adamsen Mark L. Fine
First-round vote 24,267 14,395 7,968
First-round percentage 49.44% 29.33% 16.23%
Second-round vote 32,765 18,620
Second-round percentage 63.76% 36.2%
Mayor before election

Jan Laverty Jones

 Elected Mayor

Oscar Goodman

The 1999 Las Vegas mayoral election took place on May 4 and June 8, 1999 to elect the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan. It saw the election of criminal defense attorney Oscar Goodman. The incumbent mayor Jan Jones, had decided against running for a third term.

Goodman's main rivals in the race were Arnie Adamsen (a Las Vegas City Councilman) and Mark Fine (a local real estate developer). With no candidate winning a majority in the initial round of the election, a runoff was held between the top-two finishers: Goodman and Adamsen. Goodman won the runoff election with more than 63 percent of the vote, and took office as mayor on June 28. In the years that followed, he was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. His wife, Carolyn Goodman, succeeded him as mayor in 2011 and served until 2024 (having won three elections herself).

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