Overview
- Higgins becomes Miami’s first woman mayor and the city’s first non-Hispanic leader in more than three decades in an officially nonpartisan office.
- Turnout was low at roughly 20% in the off-cycle runoff, yet Higgins secured a decisive double-digit margin over González.
- National figures weighed in as Democrats including Pete Buttigieg, Ruben Gallego and Rahm Emanuel campaigned for Higgins, while President Donald Trump and Florida Republicans backed González.
- Higgins prioritized housing affordability, government transparency and policing reforms, and she says she will seek to end Miami’s 287(g) cooperation agreement with ICE.
- A judge has temporarily blocked the transfer of county land for a proposed Trump presidential library, creating an immediate legal dispute the mayor-elect will inherit.