Chesapeake and Norfolk, Virginia, held nonpartisan general elections for municipal and school board offices on May 19, 2020.
Candidates ran in elections for the following offices:
Mayor of Chesapeake
• Incumbent Richard West defeated Lenard Myers, Steffanie Aubuchon, and Palmer Smith.
Chesapeake City Council
• Don Carey III and incumbents S.Z. Ritter and Robert Ike won at-large seats on the nine-member council.
Chesapeake School Board
• Angie Swygert and incumbents Samuel Boone, Victoria Proffitt, and Tom Mercer won at-large seats on the nine-member school board.
Mayor of Norfolk
• Incumbent Kenny Alexander ran unopposed.
Norfolk City Council
• Incumbents Andria McClellan and Angelia Williams Graves won re-election to their city council seats in Superwards 6 and 7, respectively. Both ran unopposed.
Norfolk School Board
• Incumbents Noelle Gabriel and Rodney Jordan won re-election to the school board in Superwards 6 and 7, respectively.
Norfolk and Chesapeake are the second- and third-most populous cities in Virginia and the 80th- and 90th-most populous in the U.S.
Together, the Norfolk and Chesapeake school districts served a total of 71,422 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
Additional reading:
- Partisanship in United States municipal elections (2020)
- Virginia school board elections, 2020
- City elections in Norfolk, Virginia (2020)
- City elections in Chesapeake, Virginia (2020)
