Miami Gardens - Opa-locka

Results for the Miami Gardens runoff are in. Reggie Leon and Katrina Wilson win.

Reginald Leon and Katrina Wilson were elected to the Miami Gardens City Commission.
Reginald Leon and Katrina Wilson were elected to the Miami Gardens City Commission.

Reginald Leon and Katrina Wilson were elected as Miami Gardens’ newest commissioners on Tuesday, representing city seats two and four. A third seat was filled when Erharbor Ighodaro, the only incumbent on the ballot, pulled just over 50 percent of the votes to eliminate two other candidates in August.

A primary election in August narrowed the field to two candidates for each of the two seats in Miami Gardens, the county’s third largest municipality and home to the Dolphins stadium.

Earning 55.6 percent of total votes, Leon, 39, turned the tide on Linda Hodges Holloway, 67, who led him in the August primary by several percent. Leon increased his campaign spending by 50 percent between the August election and the following month, gaining several large donors though Holloway still raised more money than he did.

Leon is an operations supervisor for UPS. He serves as co-chair for the Florida district of the UPS African-American business resource group. In 2016, Legacy Magazine put Leon on its 40 under 40 list.

An employee of Miami-Dade public schools, Wilson, 55, nearly won outright in August, and missed earning a majority of votes by just half a percent. In the November runoff, Wilson beat her opponent Janice Coakley, 60, an administrative assistant in North Miami Beach, earning just over 68 percent of the total vote.

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This story was originally published November 6, 2018 at 9:44 PM.

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