Online Poll: Who Do You Support For Mayor Of Cheyenne?

With the 2024 Wyoming Primary election now behind us, that race for Mayor of Cheyenne is on.

It's a rematch of the 2020 Mayoral election, in which former city councilman Patrick Collins defeated Rick Coppinger by a margin of roughly 66 percent to 34 percent. The 2020 election campaign was conducted under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting camapaign events and the ability to go door-to-door, a manstay of local municipal election campaigns. In fact only three candidates filed for the office, with then-incumbent mayor Marian Orr being eliminated by virtue of finishing third in the 2020 Primary Election.

Municipal elections are non-partisan under Wyoming law, meaning candidates don't formally affiliate with a political party or receive party nominations. Instead, the top two finishers in the primary move on to the General Election, which this year is scheduled for November 5.

Collins, Coppinger Finish Far Ahead Of Other Candidates

With the COVID pandemic in the rear view mirror in 2024, local politics returned to normal. That included a larger field of mayoral candidates in the primary, with 6 candidates running. But Collins and Coppinger far outpaced the rest of the contenders, garnering 82 percent of the votes against the lesser known candidates. Collins himself finished far ahead, getting 6, 286 votes. Coppinger got 2,787 votes, with non of the other four topping 1,000 votes.

Coppinger on social media appeared undeterred by the task of making up the vote deficit in the primary, vowing to work hard and overtake the incumbent.

It's also worth noting that turnoutwas unusually low in the primary election, and with a presidential race on the ballot in the general election, turnout will likely be much higher.

Collins, a long-time Cheyenne businessman, has positioned himself as a business-friendly problem solver. He has focused on issues such as insuring Cheyenne's future water supply and working to reduce a long-time housing shortage as priorities if he is re-elected.

Coppinger positions himself as a conservative who will pare back what he considers to be excessive city spending and work to protect the rights of city residents. If elected, he says one of his priorties will be to focus on crime. Like Collins, he also vows to focus on housing.

So who do you support? Take our poll and give us your opinion!