CINCINNATI, Ohio—Aftab Pureval, Cincinnati’s incumbent Democratic mayor who has faced criticism as violent crime has mounted in the city, was elected to a second term on Nov. 4.
The Associated Press called the race at 8:13 p.m. ET. Pureval secured 82 percent of the vote compared to 18 percent for Republican mayoral candidate Cory Bowman, Vice President JD Vance’s younger half-brother.
Bowman had hopes of becoming Cincinnati’s first Republican mayor since Kenneth Blackwell held the seat in the late 1970s. Instead, he had a fate similar to Brad Wenstrup, the last Republican to run for mayor in Ohio’s third-largest city….