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Who’s running for Shreveport Mayor in 2022? Here’s a list of candidates

Ten candidates are campaigning for the office of Shreveport mayor in the 2022 election cycle.

The primary elections will be held Nov. 8 and the general elections will be held Dec. 10.

Voters can register in person or by mail by October 11 or online by October 18.

Mayor Adrian Perkins

Mayor Adrian Perkins announced in January 2021 his intentions to seek re-election to the mayor’s office. Perkins was first elected in 2018 after defeating incumbent Ollie Taylor in a run-off. He is a registered Democrat. Perkins was in the Army for eight years, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Darryl R Ware II

Darryl R Ware II announced his campaign in October 2021. He was previously a campaign volunteer for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign and he said he was the first African American to graduate from Cornell University with a master's in public health. Ware is a registered Democrat.

Tracy Mendels

Tracy Mendels began her campaign in February 2022. Mendels is a former Shreveport Police officer. She is a registered Democrat.

Tom Arceneaux

Tom Arceneaux announced his campaign for mayor in early February 2022. Arceneaux is an attorney who previously served on the Shreveport City Council. He is a registered Republican.

Mario Chavez

Mario Chavez has served on the Caddo Parish Commission since 2016. He is an Iraqi war veteran who served 12 years in the Louisiana National Guard. He announced his intention to run for mayor in March 2022. Chavez said he is running as an independent candidate although he has run for political officer as a Republican in the past.

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Gregory Tarver

Lousiana state senator Gregory Tarver has served in his current position since 2012. Tarver, a Democrat, was last elected to the state senate in 2019 with 69 percent of the popular vote.

LeVette Fuller

Shreveport City Council member LeVette Fuller was elected to her current position in 2018. Fuller is a Democrat.

Lauren Ray Anderson

Local attorney Lauren Ray Anderson is a Democrat who receive her bachelors from Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Melvin Slack

Local entrepreneur Melvin Slack is a United States Army veteran who is originally from Monroe, Louisiana. Slack is a Republican.

Julius Romano

Former military police officer Julius Romano is an Italian immigrant who is running independent of a party.

Who's running for Shreveport City Council in 2022?

In November, all Shreveport voters will have the opportunity to vote for a city council member as all of the district seats are up for election this year.

The qualifying dates are July 20 to 22, so check back later this month for a complete list of candidates.

District A

The incumbent Tabatha Taylor has announced her re-election campaign. She is unopposed after challenger Kinsey Montgomery was disqualified.

Tabatha Taylor

Taylor announced her re-election campaign in March. She was originally appointed to the position in early 2020 before winning her first election to the seat later that year. Taylor graduated from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge and is a Democrat.

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District B

The incumbent LeVette Fuller will not seek re-election, however, Craig Lee and Mavice Hughes-Thigpen are running for that seat.

Craig Lee

Lee rose to prominence last year as a co-founder of Dads on Duty, a group of fathers who have made efforts to stem violence on public school grounds in Shreveport by patrolling campuses like Southwood High School. Lee is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana.

Mavice Hughes-Thigpen

Mavice Hughes-Thigpen is the owner of Eddie's Restaurant in Shreveport. Hughes-Thigpen said she previously worked for the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and the Caddo Parish Administrative office.

Gary Brooks

Gary Brooks is a longtime Shreveport entrepreneur. Brooks has lived in Shreveport for nearly 50 years and has lived and owned property in the district he's running to represent since 1993. Brooks is a graduate of Baptist Christian Academy and Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

James Carstensen

James Carstensen is a lifelong Shreveport resident who grew up in Cedar Grove and Highlands, where he lives today. Professionally, he crafts wood cabinets and has owned several businesses, including Wing King which operated in Shreveport in the late-aughts.

District C

The incumbent John Nickelson has announced he will not seek re-election. Jim Taliaferro has announced he is seeking the seat.

Jim Taliaferro

Taliaferro is currently a Caddo Parish Commissioner, a 34-year law enforcement veteran, and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Taliaferro is a Republican.

Taliaferro is currently a Caddo Parish Commissioner, a 34-year law enforcement veteran, and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Taliaferro is a Republican.

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Joseph H. Carstensen

Joseph H. Carstensen is a Shreveport native who has studied political theory throughout his life and has taught music lessons to children at the Renzi Education and Art Center.

Rebecca Thomas

Rebecca Thomas moved to the area as a Air Force kid when her father was stationed at Barksdale and took courses at Louisiana State University Shreveport before ultimately graduating from University of Louisiana Monroe. Later, in California, she earned a masters degree in Art Therapy and a Ph.D. in Psychology. She now owns and operates an art therapy practice in Highland where she specializes in treating trauma.

District D

The incumbent Grayson Boucher has announced his re-election campaign. He is unopposed.

Grayson Boucher

Grayson Boucher split 24 years working for the Caddo Parish and Shreveport fire departments and has spent nearly as much time in the real estate industry. He graduated from Louisiana State University Shreveport. Boucher is a Republican.

District E

The incumbent Alan Jackson has announced his re-election campaign. He faces challenger Tony Nations.

Alan Jackson

Jackson is a New Orleans native who moved to Shreveport after graduate school. Today, he works as the financial aid director for Grambling State University and operates a real estate company. Jackson is a Democrat.

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Tony Nations

Nations is an elected member of the Caddo Parish School Board and a registered Republican. He attended Louisiana State University Shreveport. Nations is a Republican.

Alvin Ray Oliver

Alvin Oliver is a Shreveport entrepreneur and community activist. He is a veteran of the United States Army and a member of the local NAACP chapter. Oliver attended Grambling State University and has a weekly radio show on the local gospel station KOKA-AM.

District F

The incumbent James Green has announced his re-election campaign. He is unopposed.

James Green is currently the president of the Shreveport City Council, the pastor of Union Mission Baptist Church No. 1, and a registered Democrat.

District G

The incumbent Jerry Bowman, Jr has termed out of his position and cannot seek re-election.

Carla Buntyn

Carla Buntyn is the founder of Compassion for Lives, a group that helps newly freed convicts obtain a high school equivalency degree and learn other life skills. She has also been an adjunct professor at Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana and at Wiley College.

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Ursula Bowman

Ursula Bowman is the Vice-Chair of the the Caddo Democratic Parish Executive Committee and the wife of the Jerry Bowman, Jr., who currently represents District G.

Derrick Henderson

Derrick Henderson is a community organizer who was recognized by the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce as one of 40 people under 40 who are making an impact on the area. Henderson is a 2018 graduate of the Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Shreveport Program.

Antonio Washington

Born and raised in Shreveport, Washington grew up in the Cedar Grove neighborhood. He graduated from Southwood High School, and he attended Southern University of Shreveport and eventually earned his commercial driver's license in 2002. Today, he still drives trucks and owns a fleet of two trucks where he employs his cousin. He started ministering at 16 years old and became a youth pastor at 18 years old. He opened his first business, a rim shop, at 22 years old and opened a tire shop at 25 years old.

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