Mayor — Montgomery

Montgomery Mayor · educational cover · city-run action · American Future Type
What this office is
The Mayor of Montgomery is the city’s executive. One office. This city. Montgomery uses a Mayor–Council charter: a strong Mayor as chief executive, a nine-member Council as the city’s legislature. The term is four years. The next regular election is 2027. Confirm the clock, and the Mayor of record, on official Montgomery sites. Do not invent a 2026 Mayor race for this city.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Alabama. This is not the Attorney General. This is not the Montgomery County Sheriff. City police, fire, and EMS are this city’s departments.
Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. Birmingham is not the capital. Huntsville is not the capital. The Alabama River, the capital districts, and the neighborhoods that never make a national broadcast hire the same Mayor. This city is the whole map.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Mayor of record on montgomeryal.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a city inbox: a night shift on Perry Street, a fire run that is this hydrant, an ambulance to this hospital, a lights-out block that is not a Governor file, and a river-flood minute that is not a county Sheriff’s docket.
Staff who only know Birmingham as Alabama, or only know the capitol dome as the whole city, are not doing the job. Prattville is a different city. Wetumpka is a different city. The river remains Montgomery.
What the job entails
- Run the city. Not a legislator. Not the Governor. Not the Sheriff.
- Police, fire, EMS as Montgomery’s departments.
- Lights, streets, water, trash, parks — the night residents actually live.
- Appoint and supervise city officers the charter actually gives.
- The city budget with the Council.
- One home. This city.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- City: Montgomery, Alabama · Office: Mayor
- Next regular election: 2027
- Always verify on montgomeryal.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor of Alabama. Not the Attorney General of Alabama.
- Not the Montgomery County Sheriff.
- Not a United States Senator. Not a House member.
- Not the Mayor of Birmingham. Not the Mayor of Huntsville. Not the Mayor of Mobile.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
The arena: 2027 election — Mayor of Montgomery