{"id":33730,"date":"2025-11-05T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33730\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:36:07","slug":"bryan-calvo-wins-hialeah-mayoral-race-defeating-interim-mayor-jackie-garcia-roves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33730\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Calvo wins Hialeah mayoral race, defeating interim mayor Jackie Garcia-Roves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Calvo was elected mayor of Hialeah on Tuesday, securing 53% of the vote to defeat interim mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/early-voting-begins-in-hialeah-mayor-race-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jackie Garcia-Roves<\/a> and three other candidates, according to final results with 100% of precincts reporting, as shown on the <a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/DAD\/3873\/Summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Calvo received 9,210 votes, far outpacing Garcia-Roves&#8217; 3,318. His closest challenger, Jesus Tunidor, earned 3,599 votes (21%), while Marc Anthony Salvat and Benny Rodr\u00edguez trailed with 6% and 1%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The victory cements Calvo&#8217;s rise in local politics after serving on the Hialeah City Council. His campaign focused on public safety, small business growth and improving city services, appealing to residents seeking stability after a turbulent year in city leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia-Roves, who took over as interim mayor earlier this year following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/hialeah-mayor-esteban-bovo-jr-announces-resignation-after-more-than-25-years-in-public-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the resignation of Esteban Bovo<\/a>, positioned herself as a continuation candidate but was unable to overcome Calvo&#8217;s strong name recognition and fundraising advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Hialeah, one of Florida&#8217;s largest cities and a major hub of Cuban American culture, saw a relatively low voter turnout compared to previous municipal elections. Still, election officials reported no major issues at polling sites.<\/p>\n<p>Calvo is expected to be sworn in later this month, ushering in a new administration for the city of roughly 220,000 residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Calvo was elected mayor of Hialeah on Tuesday, securing 53% of the vote to defeat interim mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-33730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}