2015 Portland, Maine, mayoral election

2015 Portland, Maine, mayoral election

November 3, 2015
 
Candidate Ethan Strimling Michael F. Brennan Tom MacMillan
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 9,163 6,884 1,883
Percentage 51.1% 38.4% 10.5%

Mayor before election

Michael F. Brennan

Elected mayor

Ethan Strimling

Portland, Maine, held an election for mayor on November 3, 2015. It was the second election since Portland voters approved a citywide referendum changing the city charter to recreate an elected mayor position in 2010.

The new citizen-elected mayor serves full-time in the position for a four-year term, exercises the powers and duties enumerated in Article II Section 5 of the Portland City Charter, be elected using instant-runoff voting, and, like the rest of municipal government in Portland, be officially non-partisan. Ethan Strimling defeated incumbent mayor Michael F. Brennan and fellow challenger Tom MacMillan.