Syracuse Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens appears to be getting a promotion.<\/p>\n
The Democrat declared victory in Tuesday\u2019s general election to be the next mayor of the Salt City, defeating Republican Thomas Babilon and independents Timothy Rudd and Alfonso Davis.<\/p>\n
As of 11:25 p.m., with more than 90% of the vote counted, Owens led with 73% of the vote compared to Babilon\u00a0with 19% of the vote,\u00a0Davis with 4% and Rudd\u00a0with 3%.<\/p>\n
Owens will also make history as the first Black mayor in Syracuse\u2019s history. She will also be the city\u2019s second ever woman mayor.<\/p>\n
Owens has served as deputy mayor for the entirety of Ben Walsh\u2019s eight-year tenure in City Hall. Walsh, an independent, was term-limited and couldn\u2019t seek reelection. He endorsed Owens to succeed him. Owens easily won the Democratic primary race back in June against several challengers.<\/p>\n
Owens calls herself an adopted daughter of Syracuse after coming to the city to attend Syracuse University. She served with Walsh in Mayor Stephanie Miner’s administration as a deputy commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development. She has also been CEO of Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility and worked for various non-profits in her career.<\/p>\n
She will be sworn in on Jan. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens appears to be getting a promotion. The Democrat declared victory in Tuesday\u2019s general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,257,111,270,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-29210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-decision-2025","12":"tag-luke-parsnow","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","21":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}